You could not pick a stupider tactic to try to get my support....

You assume they want to convert you or get your support. They don't. They want to score points off you in some imaginary game, the scoring of which is understood only by themselves and those like them.

Really stupid smart man, must remember and use at an appropriate time.

I might extend some sympathy for the journalists. Except that they've been empowering and promoting political correctness for decades.

Dr. Frankenstein, meet your monster.

It does seem to have reached a tipping point.

"Go fuck yourself" is the appropriate response to all SJW demands. They're a bunch of spoiled children -- demanding, bullying, and extremely stupid.

Cousin Dave:

"Go fuck yourself" is the appropriate response to all SJW demands. They're a bunch of spoiled children -- demanding, bullying, and extremely stupid.

I've said it before, but my preferred response is "go fuck yourself."

The problem of SJWs would be gone overnight if their parents would simply place eviction notices on their basement doors.

"You assume they want to convert you or get your support."

He does. He assumes that because he "needs" my support, I should give it to him.

Attacks on journalistic integrity aside, I’m still struggling with the concept of Harvard being a hotbed of undocumented students.

They should just rename the paper to Pionerskaya Pravda which can be translated from Russian as "Truth for Young Pioneers". And use the later's journalistic standards.

The guy's just lucky that I feel sorry for him for what an ultimately self-sabotaging moron of a smart person he is and don't take his DMs public.

I would have laughed and told him to go public or STFU.

I’m still struggling with the concept of Harvard being a hotbed of undocumented students.

Oh, it's just virtue signalling. At most, the only illegal aliens they know are their nannies, gardeners, or the guy at the bakery bringing out a tray of goodies from the back. And they don't know of anyone killed, robbed or raped by an illegal.

They see the upsides, not the downsides, and behave accordingly.

“ I’m still struggling with the concept of Harvard being a hotbed of undocumented students.

Oh, it's just virtue signalling”

I don’t know, in their concept of wanting a diverse student body, where Asian students get penalized, undocumented probably get a major plus to entrance scores, and aid packages.

“ In this political climate, a request for comment is virtually the same as tipping [ICE] off”

No it wouldn’t be, making a petition where people give their names might be.

Oh, Joe, don't you know that Asian is just a fancier white person? I mean, duh.

Fliers single out Asian-American conservative activist at University of Michigan as ‘white supremacist’

https://www.thecollegefix.com/fliers-single-out-asian-american-conservative-activist-at-university-of-michigan-as-white-supremacist/

I know it is confusing without a scorecard, but try to keep up.

Godwin's law has seeped out of the internet and spilled into reality.

The kids with the petition see this as asking the Nazis to comment on tomorrow night's anti-Nazi rally hosted by the Gay Jewish Gypsy committee at the Bahnhoff cafe at 18h00.

The problem is, currently, the left has gone absolutely extremist, and it was a snowball effect, or a frog in the water effect, and little by little it's gotten more and more bonkers, so now if you're not totally on board 100% with the ever-changing party line, and if you're not in complete agreement with the victim hierarchy, then you're a nazi and deserve to be punched, killed, silenced, etc.

If asking some organization about a protest against it that has already happened alerts them to the protests existence than I think it was probably unsuccessful. I guess it might have brought attention to the cause for people not affiliated with it.

I am assuming the journalist was not asking questions like "Harvard student and illegal immigrant Lars Svenska recently said that you ICE should be disbanded. What do you think of that?"

You'll be glad to see how Boston Globe's Kevin Cullen started his column today.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/10/24/with-intolerance-posing-righteousness-harvard-where-george-orwell-when-you-need-him/LxuhO6eLzPljpkKV5LXsdO/story.html

First third:

I don't know what they're teaching at Harvard, but whatever it is, they need more Orwell.

George Orwell couldn't have dreamed up a more absurd situation than students at one of the world's most prestigious universities opposing campus journalists seeking comment from a government agency.

Borrowing a page from Orwell's anti-authoritarian fable “Animal Farm," in which innocuous barnyard animals turn into sneering, vindictive fascists drunk on power and self-importance, a group of students took it upon themselves to instruct reporters at the student newspaper, The Crimson, how to do journalism.

In short, the students at Act on a Dream, an immigrant advocacy group, told The Crimson to abandon a basic journalistic tenet or be branded fascist collaborators.

Worse, they created an online petition, encouraging others to embrace the idea of silencing anyone who disagrees with them.

“We are extremely disappointed in the cultural insensitivity displayed by The Crimson's policy to reach out to ICE," the petition reads. “In this political climate, a request for comment is virtually the same as tipping them off."

Really?

The petition, which has more than 600 signatures and was endorsed by 13 student organizations, including Harvard College Democrats and Harvard College Democrats for Warren, demands that The Crimson apologize and change its ways. Crimson editors stood their ground, and good for them...

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