Guest Post
Usually, we at Harvard are more than happy to see Yale students make fools of themselves on camera. The video that emerged this week of Yale students screaming down one of their professors might make for a good laugh, if its implications were not quite so serious. It’s a scene we’ve seen played out far too often at college campuses in recent years, and it deserves to be called by what it is: a nascent form of fascism.
In case you haven’t heard, Yale has recently endured a firestorm of protest after a lecturer that presides over one of the undergraduate colleges questioned whether concerns about the offensiveness of Halloween costumes had gone too far in impinging on free speech.
In response, hundreds of protesters gathered on the quad, calling for Nicholas and Erika Christakis to be removed from their roles. Nicholas voluntarily came to discuss the matter with them, and soon, a crowd of students enveloped him.
One student is heard saying, “Walk away. He doesn’t deserve to be listened to.” When Nicholas started to explain himself, a student yells, “Be quiet!” and then proceeds to lecture him. When Nicholas calmly and politely says “I disagree,” the protestor explodes, screaming, “Why the fuck did you accept the position?! Who the fuck hired you?! You should step down!” Then, finally, “You’re disgusting!”
The problem here isn’t that people disagree with what Nicholas said. The problem is that they are calling for reprisals against Nicholas and Erika simply for saying it. This recent movement of university students to use administrative procedures to punish speech with which they disagree should be called by its rightful name: proto-fascism.
Several days later, students disrupted an event held by the William F. Buckley, Jr. program that was designed to highlight the importance of free speech. According to reports by the Yale Daily News, several attendees were spat on as they left.
Once again, the problem isn’t that you disagree with what the event said (though, if you disagree with an event about the importance of free speech, that might be a cause for concern itself), but that you are using a tactic—spitting—that constitutes battery, and should never be used against someone for expressing beliefs that you disagree with.
I understand that it can sometimes be difficult for college students today to tell the difference between fascist methods and non-fascist methods of advancing their beliefs and agendas. Luckily, I spent my senior thesis studying the rise of fascism in Europe, and am happy to give a few, easy tips about whether the activity you are engaged in adopts fascist tactics or not. To make it even easier, I’ve put it in table form:
Tactic | Fascist or Not Fascist? | Explanation |
Blocking people you disagree with on Facebook | Not Fascist | Maybe a bad idea, but you’re not actively transgressing on another person’s right to speech. |
Calling for people to be fired for expressing their beliefs | Fascist | You are (1) calling for reprisals (2) for people expressing what they believe. |
Organizing a protest against an editorial you disagree with | Not Fascist | You are condemning a belief you disagree with, but not trying to punish the speaker for saying it. |
Calling to defund a newspaper for publishing an editorial you disagree with | Fascist | You are (1) calling for reprisals (2) for people expressing themselves. |
Putting up fliers demeaning people that disagree with you | Not Fascist | Using an ad hominem attack is silly and hurtful, but does not use positions of authority to punish free speech. |
Spitting on people attending a meeting you disagree with | Fascist | You are (1) committing a crime against someone (2) because they exercised their free speech. |
Calling for a University to change its seal | Not Fascist | You are not punishing anyone for their beliefs. Not fascist in the slightest! |
Tearing down fliers that you disagree with | Fascist | You are (1) committing a crime against someone’s property (2) because they exercised their free speech. |
Condemning people for wearing offensive Halloween costumes on Facebook | Not Fascist | You are expressing indignation at someone else’s choices, but not calling for them to be punished because of their expression. |
Calling for students to be expelled for wearing offensive Halloween costumes | Fascist | You are (1) calling for reprisals (2) for people expressing themselves (even if in a hurtful, offensive way). |
Of course, this isn’t an exhaustive list, but it’s a good starting point. Ask yourself the question: Am I calling for people to be officially sanctioned because of what they believe, or am I committing a crime against someone because of what they believe? If the answer is yes, you are probably engaging in fascist tactics.
Given the public outcry, it seems that the majority of people, including the majority of progressive liberals, believe that Yale students calling for the resignation of those professors have gone too far in punishing free speech. The problem is that no one is willing to stand up to them. If we are going to begin anywhere, we are going to begin by calling them by their rightful name.
They are fascists.
They are fascists.
They are fascists.
Bill Barlow is a 3L at Harvard Law School.
Don’t worry… it will end soon.
SJWs will destroy everything white Christian society built and in a lot shorter time than the 600 years it took to establish English rule of law. SJWES!
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white peoplel cause too many problems…so all together now… HO HO HUNKIES GOTS TO GO… but 1/2 hunkies seem to be acceptable as pure AFRICAN, though.
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Afrikan Black Coalition seeks to ‘overthrow the Constitution,’ ‘stop white people’
The multi-university Afrikan Black Coalition is calling for black people to engage in revolution and overthrow the Constitution, citing the need to “stop white people” in the “white supremacist world” of America.
The Coalition declares, “White people have historically had problems making too many “mistakes.” White people need to be stopped. Period.”
http://campusreform.org/?ID=6965
there are numerous cities that are nearly free of white people, and republicans. These cities are very nearly entirely run by black democrats. They have very strict gun control laws. According to these people, they should be paradise. But, they are not. We can see what happens first hand to an area that has no white people. They are shitholes, because black people cannot build, or even maintain, a functioning society. I hope these people get what they want. It will greatly benefit society. It may not seem like it on the surface, but this is a great thing for secessionists everywhere.
The catch is – if you don’t want to be around white people, thats fine. But you can’t have anymore of the white people’s money either. You will have to sustain yourselves on what you produce. Good luck…
These people will be sending us to reeducation camps along with their own parents and grandparents if they get any power…
How do so many niggers get into Yale?
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flash – I just read that link you posted. wow. “a new constitution or the bullet” Are these people fucking insane? fucking try it, I dare you. That would be a bloodbath. Do they have any idea how many guns are in he hands of their “enemy” ? apparently not. While I can’t say I really want this to happen because of the huge number of innocents that would be hurt or killed, it would likely put an end to this creeping progressive collectivism that we are seeing. I, for one, am sick to death of endlessly accomodating these people, and this would put a swift end to it.
To Stucky @ 10:18. The answer is –Dumbass white guilt Affirmative Action. These are the S.A. of the Stalinists and will be disposed of when the commies have achieved their revolution.
Students at Yale, Missouri Beg College Administrators to Play Mommy and Daddy
In loco parentis returns: Yale and Mizzou students want to be treated like kids again
Robby Soave|Nov. 9, 2015 3:40 pm
Mark SchierbeckerHalf a century ago, student activists liberated themselves—partly, at least—from in loco parentis: the paternalistic notion that college administrators should serve as watchful guardians, restricting students’ activities and rights in order to provide a safe environment for them, the way a mother or father would. Today, students across the country are determined to undo this liberation.
At Yale University, a group of aggrieved minority students have demanded the resignations of administrators who wisely rejected calls for emotional coddling. Nicholas Christakis, the master of Yale’s Silliman College, and his wife, Erika Christakis, an early childhood educator at Yale, conveyed to students that they should make their own decision about what Halloween costumes to wear, avert their eyes if they are offended, and make their own decisions about appropriate dress. Nicholas was subsequently mobbed by students, forced to apologize, and—if students get their way—could lose his job as master of Silliman.
Students at the University of Missouri were even more immediately successful: they forced President Tim Wolfe to resign for being insufficiently attentive to a string of painful incidents—someone yelling a racial slur at the black student government president, the appearance of a swastika on campus, etc. Wolfe’s ouster was prompted by a student’s hunger strike and the football team’s decision to boycott all future games.
Perhaps the most astonishing thing about these students’ censorious actions is how profoundly conservative they are. By communicating an expectation that their master or president protect them from unsightly Halloween costumes, or promise them no more hurtful words will be said at their expense, students are essentially calling for a return to campus life under in loco parentis. They reject not merely a free and open campus dialogue, but adulthood itself.
A controversial column in The Yale Daily Herald makes this rejection undeniable:
It’s unacceptable when the Master of your college is dismissive of your experiences. The Silliman Master’s role is not only to provide intellectual stimulation, but also to make Silliman a safe space that all students can come home to. His responsibility is to make it a place where your experiences are a valid concern to the administration and where you can feel free to talk with them about your pain without worrying that the conversation will turn into an argument every single time. We are supposed to feel encouraged to go to our Master and Associate Master with our concerns and feel that our opinions will be respected and heard.
But, in his ten weeks as a leader of the college, Master Christakis has not fostered this sense of community. He seems to lack the ability, quite frankly, to put aside his opinions long enough to listen to the very real hurt that the community feels. He doesn’t get it. And I don’t want to debate. I want to talk about my pain.
The writer, Jencey Paz, goes on to make an explicit comparison between the role of the college master in her life and that of her father:
My dad is a really stubborn man. We debate all the time, and I understand the value of hearing differing opinions. But there have been times when I have come to my father crying, when I was emotionally upset, and he heard me regardless of whether or not he agreed with me. He taught me that there is a time for debate, and there is a time for just hearing and acknowledging someone’s pain. …
Christakis hasn’t checked in on any of us. He hasn’t given us any indication that he is going to or wants to heal the community. If you know I’m in pain and you aren’t doing anything to try to help me, then how can you be sorry? Christakis is the Master of Silliman College, it is his job to take care of us, and he is failing.
The op-ed is easy to criticize—although it’s not okay to criticize it, according to The Herald’s editors, who eventually took it down “at the author’s request,” because it was reaching an audience outside its intended readership (Yale students). The irony of the student newspaper taking this step should be obvious to all: Paz asserted that she didn’t want to debate her pain, wrote an op-ed about it, and then withdrew it once people started to do exactly what an op-ed calls for: engage and debate it.
Students at Missouri are similarly unwilling to handle criticism, feedback, or really anything other than validation. In the wake of Wolfe’s resignation, reporters flooded the campus, but students formed a human shield around the black activists who had achieved this victory to rescue them from being interviewed.
“You don’t have a right to take our photos,” said one student to a photojournalist, according to this video taken by another journalist, Mark Schierbecker. (Update: I’ve embedded the video; you can watch it below.)
Student conduct at Yale has been even more unbelievable. According to The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf and The Yale Daily News, student-protesters spat upon people attending a free speech event over the weekend:
These students were offended by one person’s words, and were free to offer their own words in turn. That wasn’t enough for them, so they spat on different people who listened to those words and called one minority student a traitor to his race. In their muddled ideology, the Yale activists had to destroy the safe space to save it.
It’s clear that many of today’s students—at Yale, Missouri, and other campuses—don’t value free expression the way their radical predecessors did. But the Yale and Missouri incidents reveal something even more startling: they don’t value their own independence, either. Their goal is to re-enshrine in loco parentis. They want their administrators-in-chief to hold them while they cry, pat them on the back, and softly whisper into their ears, “you’re right, I’m so sorry.”
Will these same students, complain, I wonder, if their administrators start sending troublemakers to bed without supper, or preventing them from hanging out with their friends until they finish their homework? Keep in mind that prior to the ‘60s, administrators placed broad restrictions on students’ rights to socialize, organize, and speak. That’s what parents do, it’s what used to take place on college campuses, and it’s what awaits these students who are suddenly so desperate to be treated like children again.
@ admin, I hope they keep it up. Seriously. Burn down the entire ediface. Hopefully, in the not too distant future, people will see Yale or haaahvard and say sorry, no thanks, you aren’t right for a job at my company. Having been there, outside of liberal circles(and how many of them run a small business?) will end up being a liability, not an asset. People will know you spend 4 years engaging in stupid assclownery like this, not getting smarter. The more intelligent white people who see shit like this, the better. I hope the stuff in your post keeps happening, and I hope the kids in the article and the ones in flash’s post spread their message far and wide. I hope the MSM runs with it and it gets broadcast in every living room in america. The more people keep hearing about this, the less inclined they will be to send their children there, and the less relevant those places will become.
@Admin, I sent the Modern Educayshun link to a former professor of mine who is highly respected in the Social Sciences… She teaches both PoliSci and Women’s Studies, though she only taught PoliSci when I was in college.
I will be interested in reading her reaction to the video; she was an admirer of Reinventing Government policies and believed that Affirmative Action should go one step further to recognize “distance travelled.” [Distance Travelled would be recognizing a black teen from the ghetto whose grades are C or above as having travelled a greater distance than a white teen from a middle class neighborhood whose grades were A and B level.] I have a great deal of respect for her, even though I do NOT agree with her political leanings.
The Ivey Leauge has produced these revolving door gov/corp fascii for decades.
@Ghost
That video is the best thing I’ve seen in a long time. Thanks for that one!
Could someone explain to me what the niglets mean by “stop white people” in Flash’s 9:51 am post?
Stop white people breathing ?
Stop white people breeding ?
WTF? What is their point?
Greetings,
Civilizations produce their greatest monuments just before they fall. This, clearly, is a monument to stupidity and these people will be 100% cleansed from the land the very moment the free money stops which can’t be that far into the future. Finally, the first one of these clowns that dare spit on me will (maybe) wake up in a hospital minus all of his or her teeth and with a face that no amount of makeup can repair.
I worked for a lady who was VP of a world wide hotel chain and she had an intern from Yale, shit you not , who was a non-reading graduate…his life experiences was consider equal to college credits.I’ll leave it to you to imagine what race he was.
BL. I take it to mean abolish the white race.
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WPES!
Hope they are getting lots of practice sucking dick, cant see many of them accomplishing much more than that after college…
Flash- How is that not the ULTIMATE EXAMPLE of rayciss?
I iz deeply offended and wants them to pay my bills for the rest of my life!
We need a video of a little white kid on YouTube yelling “THAT”S RACIST” !!
BL , only white people can be raciss…didn’t you get the memo?
One of the new edumucated millennials who are going to change the world.
YIKES !!
Maggie…if they had a one half button I’d press it . You get 1/2 of a thumbs up for the video. You’d get 1/2 a thumbs down for respecting anyone with idiotic idea’s like “Distance Traveled “.
I’d ask her if she’d like a “Distance Traveled ” doctor doing her open heart surgery ?
“Maggie…if they had a one half button I’d press it . You get 1/2 of a thumbs up for the video. You’d get 1/2 a thumbs down for respecting anyone with idiotic idea’s like “Distance Traveled” ————BUCKHED
Same here.
Yes Flash…..I got the memo. I took a big shit on it , wrapped it in Saran Wrap and sent it back to them . Time to change the rules of engagement.
@distance travelled fans… when I was suspended by Boeing managers for filing a grievance for the guy who had the heart attack and was being fired for not completing his work (I was union steward… it came with the job sort of…), she called people she knew in D.C. to ask that the investigator at NLRB coming to investigate be informed I was trustworthy. She didn’t tell me that, but the investigator who interviewed me told me that I was well thought of by some folks where she worked.
I appreciate her being willing to do that for me, a former student. I respect her because she never told me she called someone. She may have liberal ideas, but I liked her and in spite of my heavily conservative stands on most issues, she liked and respected me.
GEEZ…BL You don’t know what it like to have once been a slave…please check your white privilege and have a heart for the oppressed.
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Liberal Idea’s = Crash and Burn Society.
Flash- I just paid five property tax bills………I think I iz know what it feels like to bes a slave.
IT DID NOT FEEL like a privilege! Did I miss something?
If it is so, that TPTB are creating/orchestrating this ongoing fucking shit show, they are truly evil pieces of shit.
This has gone way too far. Where are the adults?
What the Blacks do not understand is that the whites have the greatest number of guns and not those cheap ass Saturday Night Specials, but top grade hand guns, shotguns and assault weapons. On top of that, the white know how to use them. We went hunting as we grew up. We know how to hunt game. We don’t hold our Glocks sideways like gangstas. How many people in the Hood have learned how to hint growing up or have gone to shooting ranges on a regular basis? On top of it all, they are outnumbered 9-1. Bad odds all the way around
BL, you have that property ( not own or you wouldn’t be renting) becasue of white privilege. Check it.
Humble yourself and you will be saved..
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BL, when you embrace you white privilege , Niggaz be like..
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Will this work?
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Nope… I tried.
My husband pointed out a photo of an audience at an NFL game. No blacks. He said that blacks excel at football and make up the majority of the teams players, but that they don’t attend the games because the tickets are expensive and generally, they can’t afford to go to the games.
He said they buy the hell out of the merchandise, i.e., shoes and shirts.
So, who attends the games?
If people don’t wise up and realize what their addiction to bread and circuses has done to them, well.. that is an oxymoron isn’t it?
Maggie, thanks for the attempt…WP simply does not like Vines..and too, once you’ve seen one freal African running a football down field, you’ve pretty much seen them all…never touch the stuff myself.
and safe places, because FEEEEEELIINNGGS.
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Are You In College? I’m Tearing Up Your Resume.
by Karl Denninger
This has gone way, way too far.
At Yale, every residential college has a “master”––a professor who lives in residence with their family, and is responsible for its academic, intellectual, and social life. “Masters work with students to shape each residential college community,” Yale states, “bringing their own distinct social, cultural, and intellectual influences to the colleges.” The approach is far costlier than what’s on offer at commuter schools, but aims to create a richer intellectual environment where undergrads can learn from faculty and one another even outside the classroom.
“In your position as master,” one student says, “it is your job to create a place of comfort and home for the students who live in Silliman. You have not done that. By sending out that email, that goes against your position as master. Do you understand that?!”
“No,” he said, “I don’t agree with that.”
The student explodes, “Then why the **** did you accept the position?! Who the **** hired you?! You should step down! If that is what you think about being a master you should step down! It is not about creating an intellectual space! It is not! Do you understand that? It’s about creating a home here. You are not doing that!”
Oh really?
So let’s accept the premise — that it’s about creating a “home”.
Is a “home” somewhere that you are an infantile being, where every scream, every cry brings response because you are incapable of doing anything for yourself? Has the entirety of the college campus student population now descended below the threshold of two years of intellectual and physical capacity, where one can no longer prepare one’s own food or even wipe one’s own ass?
That’s the premise here, you know.
I have long maintained that the first and only job as a parent is to somehow navigate taking an infant who is utterly dependent on you for everything necessary to survive except air and wind up with someone capable of cooking their own food, wiping their own ass, cleaning the remainder of their own body, laundering their clothes and finding a means of supporting themselves in some fashion, whatever it might be, such that on or before they reach their 18 year on this planet they have a fighting chance at being on their own and not dying.
Everything else is gravy.
You only need look around the animal kingdom to see the pattern. The mother cat teaches the kitten how to hunt. The antelope learns how to run with the herd (and quickly at that!) lest he become the larger cat’s lunch. The amount of effort that goes into this process varies from species to species, but it all comes down to the same thing — progress over time, not regression.
If our colleges are allowing professors, RAs and others to be drummed out, forced to resign and similar due to the infantile regression of the students and their screaming like six week old babies then my response is that should I ever set up another company all who come to me with said degrees will get to cry in their infantile manner while watching me burn their resume and post the video on Youtube.
This crap stops right here and now and the people who run these so-called “higher educational institutions” put their foot down and tell these crybabies to grow up or get out — or my big fat BBQ lighter is going to get a workout, and I recommend if you’re a hiring manager that yours does too.
There are plenty of people who currently are or have been in the military that understand that playing infant when it’s time to be an adult is a good way to wind up in a pine box. They get it, and if these coddled babies do not they might learn when they find themselves living under a freeway overpass.
There was a whiny young man who dropped out of college and joined the Air Force and ended up on my crew in the late 1980s. He was a premie millenial, I think. Anyway, he took to calling me “Mom” and acted like a whiny baby on trips because he was 19 and looked 13 and acted 7, so could never buy a beer. I used to tell him he had to sit in the crew van when we went to bars, so he would bring along a book or a handheld video game (this was pre-Gameboy days).
I saw him a few years later at the Commissary with a wife and a kid and we chatted. He told his wife how “mean” I’d been to him, making him stay in the car and telling him what he could and could not do. We laughed a bit, but then I looked him in the eye and said “Rob, I couldn’t MAKE you do those things. I really could not have told you to do anything outside that airplane.”
He realized I was right and apologized for being a putz. I told him it was okay, but I hoped he would bring that little girl up to know who was in charge.
I have no idea if he has, but I know that there are a lot of people out there just begging for someone to boss them around.
Not me.
Just watched the video, hire any of these people at your peril, I hope they are all sociology and gender studies majors so they will self identify as unemployable to minimize future problems. These types of people either did not exist in the 70s or they stayed quiet.
The unfortunate thing (amongst the unfortunate things) is that they will all probably go work for the government or other useless organization as they must deep down suspect they are not cut out for the private sector. Then once they are the senator from Massachusetts they will assume they can direct the entire economy and world.
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