Bonfire of the academies: Two professors on how leftist intolerance is killing higher education

At an institution of higher education, it is the faculty’s job to teach, not to preach; to educate, not indoctrinate. Some of the students who became protesters will be paying off their loans for years, and for what? They were let down by an institution that imposed and nurtured grievance and propaganda rather than educating and conferring knowledge.

Washington Examiner

Evergreen State College's outcast professors Heather Heying
and Bret Weinstein describe how postmodern leftist intolerance
 is killing higher education.

"At colleges and universities all over the country, students are protesting in increasingly virulent and sometimes violent ways. They demand safe spaces and trigger warnings, shouting down those with whom they disagree. It has become rote for outsiders to claim that the inmates are running the asylum; that this is analogous to Mao’s Red Guard, Germany’s brown shirts, the French Revolution’s Jacobins; and, when those being attacked are politically “left” themselves, that the Left is eating its own. These stories seem to validate every fantasy the Right ever had about the Left. . . .

"We were among Evergreen’s most popular faculty, and year in, year out, our students wrote stellar evaluations of us. Our programs were always full, even in a time of falling enrollments. Yet, we work at Evergreen no more. What happened to this brilliant, flawed experiment? There are too many subplots to recount, but here is one thread that, we hope, others can use to spot insurgencies on their own campuses." . . .

. . . "These faculty members and their accomplices in the administration are primarily at fault. They are the adults. At an institution of higher education, it is the faculty’s job to teach, not to preach; to educate, not indoctrinate. Some of the students who became protesters will be paying off their loans for years, and for what? They were let down by an institution that imposed and nurtured grievance and propaganda rather than educating and conferring knowledge. Evergreen handed them temporary power, an intoxicating thing, instead of establishing boundaries and legitimately empowering them with insight and wisdom."  Full article.

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And finally this pièce de résistance from Earl of Taint:

"It’s a totally irreverent act, but if you insist on defiling your Christmas tree with a Hillary Clinton topper, at least tell the true story.  The one we’ve all seen for sale with the angel wings on The Beast is a freaking lightning rod. You’re just asking to get Smote. Ours is much safer – because it’s honest . . ."

Discussing Roy Moore

First Virginia, now Alabama. The left will celebrate this as a rejection of Trump and the GOP.

What the defeat of Roy Moore does not prove  "Democrats and the media are busy today furiously spinning the results of the Alabama Senate race where Republican Roy Moore was beaten by Democrat Doug Jones by about 20,000 votes.

"It's a catastrophe for Republicans. It's a mortal blow to Donald Trump. It validates the Democratic strategy to nationalize a local election. Doug Jones is the second coming of Bill Clinton.

"Well, maybe not. But what fun would it be to present the illusion that Democrats don't have to do very much to win in 2018 - just sit back and let the press destroy Trump and the Republicans?" . . .

5 Things to Know About Doug Jones' Victory Over Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate Race

Point #3 is: "Write-ins could have decided the race." . . .

Alabama’s new Democrat senator: An avoidable disaster  . . . "The Republican governor Robert Bentley appointed Luther Strange to replace Jeff Sessions.  Bentley had ethical problems of his own and resigned. The replacement Republican Governor, Kay Ivey, then chose to hold a special election to fill the seat this year. Ivey could have allowed Strange to hold the seat until November 2018, the next federal election date." . . .

Why Moore’s loss is a bad sign for Trump in 2020  . . . "What’s even more significant for the Democrats is that Doug Jones won in a highly red state that Donald Trump won by well over twenty points. This is huge for the Democrats moving forward to the next Presidential election and will play the biggest part in their strategy to defeat President Trump." . . .

Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee Tweets Congratulations to ‘Doug Moore,’ Links Victory to NFL Anthem Protesters

What Doug Jones’ victory over Roy Moore really means for Washington (and America) in 2018  . . . "Surely, Jones emboldens Democrats to compete in states like Nevada, where Republicans are potentially now vulnerable. To succeed, the Democrats will need more than a message of resistance or opposition. They will need a centrist, pro-growth agenda of their own.
"While Jones’ victory is significant for the Democratic Party because it narrows the Republicans’ leadership margin in the Senate entering 2018, the more pernicious consequences from the election are those facing the Republican Party." . . .

Trolling, probably:

Moretti Underground

To Both Parties, Moore's Loss Is a Potential Win for 2018  "Doug Jones’ victory over scandal-plagued Republican Roy Moore in Alabama’s Senate special election delivered a gut punch to Donald Trump, putting the president’s legislative agenda -- and the GOP’s already tenuous grip on the upper chamber -- in jeopardy. Once Jones is seated early next year, Republicans will hold just a perilous 51-49 majority. And while Democrats’ path is narrow, their upset victory in Alabama gives them a shot at gaining control in 2018. 

"But Republicans who opposed Moore have characterized the loss as a longer-term gain for the party. In a sign of the cockeyed dynamics of the race, some are breathing sighs of relief as they no longer face the liabilities that were sure to come if the alleged sexual predator became their colleague. Some GOPers are also pointing fingers at former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, who championed Moore through the election." . . .

Strzok-Page texts reveal deep bias: Clinton ‘just has to win’

Thomas Lifson

"The first 90 texts between adulterous FBI lovers Peter Strzok and Lisa Page have been released by the Justice Department, revealing bias so severe as to disqualify the work performed by both government employees (who still are receiving paychecks, so far as anyone can tell) concerning Presiddent Trump, Hillary Clinton, and any politician of any stripe, for that matter.  Even the New York Times and NBC News, both reliably anti-Trump, are giving the story play.

"The Times summarizes:

Senior F.B.I. officials who helped investigate Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign last year wrote in text messages that Hillary Clinton “just has to win” and described a potential Trump victory as “terrifying,” according to texts released Tuesday night.

A top counterintelligence agent, Peter Strzok, exchanged the messages with Lisa Page, a senior F.B.I. lawyer. Some messages criticized Mrs. Clinton’s team, the Obama administration, Congress and other Democrats. But the two appeared appalled at some of Mr. Trump’s comments during the campaign and feared that he would politicize the F.B.I. (snip)

On July 27, Ms. Page wrote, “She just has to win now. I’m not going to lie, I got a flash of nervousness yesterday about Trump.” That text message was sent after the Clinton investigation had been closed. Days later, the F.B.I. began investigating possible coordination between Russian officials and the Trump campaign.

The two F.B.I. officials also criticized Mr. Trump as the Russia investigation was continuing. They told internal investigators that their comments were influenced by the troubling evidence they were seeing about Mr. Trump’s campaign ties to Russia, according to a person familiar with the internal investigation." . . .Read more.

There must be a burnt sacrifice to appease Godess Hillary

"If Mueller has any personal honor, he should resign immediately, along with his yapping hyenas. . . There may be no way to stop it, but the damage to public faith in the system will be immense." James Lewis

'F TRUMP': Texts between ex-Mueller team members emerge, calling Trump 'loathsome human,' 'an idiot' (Video)  . . . "Strzok also oversaw the bureau’s interviews with ousted National Security Adviser Michael Flynn – who pleaded guilty to lying to FBI investigators in the Russia probe.
"He also was present during the FBI’s July 2016 interview with Hillary Clinton at the close of the email investigation, shortly before then-FBI director James Comey called her actions "extremely careless" without recommending criminal charges."

I have to admit that to being repelled by Trump during the primary campaign and he was not among my choices. His comments about Carly Fiorina and Megyn Kelly were repulsive and I still resent them.
But now I see the boldness with which he has been attacking Obama's oppressive regulations and executive orders, the new way he responds to enemy threats and his friendship toward Israel, the antithesis to the feckless Obama (the darling of television talk shows and celebrities). Trump has begun to free the American economy from the shackles of liberal leftist socialism (redundant, I know but I wanted there to be no doubt). 
President Reagan wisely claimed that it was good to have America's adversaries think he might be crazy and that seemed to have worked for him.
The Tunnel Dweller

Does Mueller need blood?   . . . "The media mob desperately wants to see somebody hanged to make up for Hillary losing the last election. A just system of laws and procedures is designed to prevent that, but in the case of the so-called “Special Counsel” there are no safeguards. We must have faith on the integrity of the individuals running the show, and today they have lost that faith." . . .

FBI Agent Peter Strozk Anti-Trump Messages Released To Media – However, The Key Question is Not Content…  . . ."However, Agent Strzok leaking information to the media; his changing the outcome of an FBI investigation into a political ally, Hillary Clinton; and his investigative involvement in the Trump Russia Conspiracy, via the Steele Dossier and FISA warrant, well, that’s the real issue evident here."

Text Messages in Hand, Republicans Plan to Accuse Justice Department of Bias

"The release Tuesday night of F.B.I. officials’ text messages describing the possibility of a victory by Donald J. Trump as “terrifying” and saying that Hillary Clinton “just has to win” is certain to fuel a Republican campaign to attack the impartiality of the Justice Department and its special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III — and possibly hamper him with an investigation of the special counsel’s office." . . . Lucianne