"... pressured the student government to cut funding to the paper."

"The activists also vowed to destroy any physical copies of the paper they could get their hands on."

I feel sorry for the students at these colleges but if they keep their mouths shut they will graduate and I do believe that they can see the bias.

I don't. I think it's a form of fundamentalism and that they will graduate unexposed to the idea that there can be different points of view and debate.

This is why we can't have fun things.

I think it's a form of fundamentalism and that they will graduate unexposed to the idea that there can be different points of view and debate.

Worse still, they'll expect that to work in the Real World, as well. We'll see how they react when they get into an argument with someone who won't bow and scrape and flips them a great big "fuck you".

Will these mini-Stalins turn into a quivering mass of jelly, or fisticuffs?

Depends on which students you are talking about Amy. I think Bob was referring to other students than the SJWs. Heck, I went to OU in Oklahoma. There is a hell of a lot of political difference between Oklahoma and California. But on the OU campus and from the OU faculty not so much. The engineering college was pretty right wing and you could say whatever you wanted as long as you could back it up there. But anywhere else? I knew to shut up and parrot. It was only four years. Just keep your head down and get your union card.

And IRA, the answer is jelly. They are more than happy to bring the violence as long as it isn't equal violence. But once they don't have overwhelming violence on their side and their victims are willing to fight back it is pure jelly time.

Thanks Ben. I too was in an Engineering program at a liberal college and was only exposed to this in my first year English class.

Math and Science stuff was prove it time.

And yes on the "jelly".

I was left out of a lot of arguments once I stated either "Well thing go off grid so we don't have to use so much coal." or "Tell me your options for when Bubba says "I like your ass and it's mine no matter what."

Of course it helped that many of our students were returning 'Nam vets and were on short fuses.

I enjoy dressing up, and Halloween is as good an excuse as I get all year! For work, I usually put together a costume that couldn't possibly offend anyone, because it's my place of employment. It wouldn't occur to me that I would have to worry about that on a college campus. I seem to recall some Halloween parties at ASU where every other woman was a slutty (name "exotic" ethnicity here). The times, they are a-changin'.

Worse still, they'll expect that to work in the Real World, as well. We'll see how they react when they get into an argument with someone who won't bow and scrape and flips them a great big "fuck you". ~ Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at October 20, 2015 6:30 AM

We've seen what happens when they get into an argument with someone who won't bow and scrape. They call down the jack-booted thugs of political correctness and run amok. Witness Occupy Wall Street. Witness the draconian Title IX regulations being put into place. How many CEOs have been hounded out of office or companies boycotted because someone there held an "incorrect" viewpoint?

And the Progressives think this is wonderful.

"The activists also vowed to destroy any physical copies of the paper they could get their hands on."

Because ... Free Speech.

"There is a hell of a lot of political difference between Oklahoma and California."

Absolutely right.

Oklahoma's registered Republicans have only a .1% superiority (886,153, or 43.6%) over Democrats.

Absolutely right. ~ Posted by: Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at October 20, 2015 11:12 AM

Oklahoma has a diverse political base (43.6% R, 43.5% D, and 12.9% I), the better to keep both parties honest.

California (43.2% D, 28.0% R), on the other hand, is in the tank for the Democrats. And California's Democrats treat the state's remaining taxpayers like a pathetic friend, demanding money constantly with no regard for the pathetic friend's ability to absorb the monetary setback.

And the pathetic friend keeps coughing up the dough. Enjoy that "bullet" train ride from Bakersfield to Stockton, pathetic friend.

"I think it's a form of fundamentalism and that they will graduate unexposed to the idea that there can be different points of view and debate."

Sadly, I think this is true. Some of these "degreed, yet uneducated" folks will become HR "diversity consultants."

This way they can continue enforcing their biased viewpoint; only now it will be on the corporate world.

And, don't you dare disagree with them - it could cost you a job.

"And, don't you dare disagree with them - it could cost you a job."

Charles, that is why saving money is important. Having assets gives you options. And it doesn't just have to be the neo-Nazi HR person. If your boss wants to keep costs down and it's performance review time scaring the employees is classic trick 1 to get you to voluntarily give up your raise. Being able to walk is worth way more than a Prada bag or a six of Bud.

That is also why tax the rich doesn't work. The rich have options, they can dodge. It is always the guys who can't run or change who get hit.

Gog,

It's further than a ~10% registered voter difference. Your most right wing Californian would probably register Democrat in Oklahoma.

I hate non-spooky Halloween costumes

The engineering college was pretty right wing and you could say whatever you wanted as long as you could back it up there.

Why am I not surprised that those taking classes about subjects that have actual right and wrong answers, based on things like math... aren't indoctrinated (for the most part) with left-think? IME, I recall most of the hard sciences weren't that bad. It was when you had to take classes outside those areas, to meet requirements, that things got ugly. To think there are people who's entire "education" is in nothing but the left/groupthink classes.

I had a major in computer science and it wasn't bad in those classes. All anyone cared about was who could actually do stuff, and do it well. Race, sex, religion.. nobody cared.