Wednesday, March 13, 2019

The oppression of conservatives and suppression of freedom

A Professor Spoke the Truth, He Still Pays the Price  . . . "At the conclusion of his piece, Abrams made an argument that rang true to my more than 20 years of litigation experience — “ideological imbalance, coupled with [administrators’] agenda-setting power, threatens the free and open exchange of ideas.”
"This is exactly right. Administrators draft and enforce speech codes. Administrators are responsible for creating campus kangaroo courts. Administrators kick Christian student groups off campus, and administrators often take the lead in designing campus programming that features overwhelmingly progressive voices. While conservative media often focus their ire on random radical professors, administrators are busy engaging in the overwhelming majority of campus censorship.
"Simply put, Abrams told an important truth. And he’s been punished for it. As our 
Madeleine Kearns reported last November, his office door was vandalized, students called for him to be punished, anonymous individuals falsely accused him of sexual misconduct, and when Abrams urged the college president, Cristle Judd, to take a strong stand in favor of academic freedom, he said that she “asked whether he thought it was appropriate to write op-eds without her permission and further suggested that his article had been hostile toward his colleagues.”

The Left should debate rather than call for boycotts
. . . "This is how [Tucker] Carlson fought back:

The left's main goal, in case you haven't noticed, is controlling what you think.  In order to do that, they have to control the information that you receive.  Google and Facebook and Twitter are fully on board with that.  They are happy to ban unapproved thoughts, and they don't apologize for it.  Same with the other cable channels and virtually every major news outlet in this country.

"Thanks to Carlson for fighting back." . . .

New Petition Threatens Fox with Boycott Unless They Stand With Judge Jeanine Against Omar  . . . "Sunday March 10, 2019 Fox News reprimanded one of their most

popular hosts, Judge Jeanine for expressing her opinion on Ilhan Omar.
"This came after a muslim Fox News producer who regularly attacks conservatives complained about the segment.
"Per DailyCaller, Pirro raised questions about what motivates Rep. Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitism. It was a legitimate question given the Muslim Somali-American’s blatant anti-Semitic statements and association with Islamists.
" 'Omar wears a hijab, which, according to the Quran 33:59, tells women to cover so they won’t get molested,” Judge Jeanine said. “Is her adherence to this Islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence to Sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution?' ” . . .

Enough with boycotts already  . . . "Tucker Carlson is finding that advertisers are abandoning his show because he spoke politically incorrectly about several different groups.  I wish he would publish who is dumping him so I can avoid those products if I want to.  I haven't found such a list yet for the current comments." . . .  Tucker Carlson on Media Matters

Censoring Judge Jeanine
. . . "Pirro then reminded Pelosi and her colleagues of their party’s purported principles -- one of them being a firm intolerance of anti-Semitism. “She’s not getting this anti-Israel sentiment doctrine from the Democrat Party,” Pirro said of Rep. Omar. What, then, Pirro asked, was the source of Omar’s Jew-hatred?" . . .

Rev. Al Sharpton suggested Tuesday that a remark that Bill Clinton made about President Barack Obama may have been racist .

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