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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't even know what to say anymore. If these kids feel that the conditions at Yale are intolerably racist and offensive, I seriously do not know where they will feel "safe" once they leave the cocooned environment of academia. I read the email and am appalled that the author's words are being twisted and mischaracterized the way they are, and that both she and her husband are so completely under fire. Of course Yale, as all universities it seems these days, are cowering and buckling under the emotion-based screaming and ranting and accusations of "RACISM!!!!" I am a liberal - never voted for a republican and never will (unless they miraculously turn around from the insane path they're currently on), but this trend in academia scares the crap out out of me. Maybe Univ of Chicago is the last bastion of sanity. We'll see how long they last tho. [/quote]

There are obviously many different issues to take into account in voting by party.  But I have to say, unless someone in the Democratic Party has the courage to stand up and say when so called "PC culture" has gone to far, they are going to lose some voters.  Maybe not to a Donald Trump, but if more establishment moderate Republicans pick up on these issues, it can be a wedge with Democrats.   These college students are handing voters to the very politicians that they likely find outrageous and bombastic -- and on that front need to spend some time looking in a mirror.

More broadly, this trend of activist students twisting what anyone who disagrees with them says into the subject of their straw man sound bite racism attacks, is embarrassingly intellectually dishonest.  And universities seem to be inviting these problems, as they propose more and more college classes and majors focused on identity, ethnicity, self-discovery, etc.  I do wonder whether the activist protestors in these cases represent a proportional cross section of majors or whether more traditional majors are underrepresented.   [/quote]

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