Campus PC: It’s the Dumb Students

Robert Weissberg writes: The Social Justice Warriors and thin-skinned “communities of color” among others will continue to throttle lively classroom conversations and any professor who insists that matters have improved, still risks his career.

The reason for this dismal prognosis is that frank, often disconcerting exchanges celebrated by Chicago’s Dean of Students are mentally beyond many students and ideas that professors consider “thought-provoking” will be deemed “hateful” for the simple reason that countless students cannot grasp them or just garble the professor’s point. That students are perplexed by intellectually demanding discussions is hardly new; what is new is that their bewilderment, misperceiving black as white, is now taken seriously by boot-licking administrators. Take my word for it—even at decent schools innumerable students lack the intellectual agility and knack for abstraction necessary for free-wheeling, enthusiastic debates. Faced with these students, a savvy professor will continue to avoid anything that might, however unlikely, be misinterpreted as “hate.” Even if everything is explicitly hypothetical and the lecture’s purpose is just to explore possibilities, why risk student outrage?

Keep in mind that it takes only a single student to complain to the Dean to launch a time-consuming investigation and even if cleared, this investigation itself will remain a blot on one’s academic record in a world where even a suspicion of insensitivity can be costly. And the odds of having one such hyper-sensitive student unable to grasp subtle arguments can only grow as universities diversify their recruitment pool to those who would normally fail to make the academic cut. If American higher education all resembled the high-IQ University of Chicago, and no admission exceptions were made for the doltish, the PC pox would vanish.

In an environment where even the slightest misstep can be a micro-aggression, forget about playing Devil’s Advocate to stimulate re-thinking a seemingly settled orthodoxy. Woe to the professor who to get the intellectual juices flowing, said, “Just for the sake of argument, let me suggest that most of today’s former colonies, nations such as India, Nigeria and Kenya, would be economically prosperous, less violent and enjoy a better standard of living if they lived under colonial rule. Does anybody here disagree?”

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How Was Your Weekend?

I ask the secretary: “How was your weekend?”

She replies: “What do you want?”

Ahh, she knows me well.

Thesokorus: “You just need more levels of duplicity is all. You can do it!”

Miriam: “Yup! That is the common reply to your out of character-nice greetings. I get a chill down my back when you greet normal people (aka not female models) in a nice way.”

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Semi-Literate Black Mayor Of Bankrupt American City Denounces Critics As Racists

Daily Caller: The Democratic mayor of Petersburg, Va., has denounced all critics of his leadership as racist Republicans in a bizarre email replete with many grammatical errors.

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Petersburg, a city of just 32,000 people, is battling severe budgetary issues. It has an expected budget deficit of $12 million and over $19 million in unpaid bills. The city is even in danger of losing its garbage pick-up service because of missed payments to the Central Virginia Waste Management Authority.

But Mayor W. Howard Myers says the many people critical of his administration are simply racists out to take him. And he makes his claim in a leaked email that are suggests he is barely literate in the English language.
The grammar of the letter is so atrocious that at times it’s difficult to deduce what Myers actually wants to say. Some of the most baffling lines include:

“Our economic and financial development is in crisis and until this Council set aside the foolishness of one and Facebook cronies, we will not be able to move forward.”
“No one Council member does it alone as always regurgitated
I will as the representative of Ward 5 and as Mayor duly to my right hand, serve the Public without blemish and from scare tactics from a few racists and Republicansupporters.”
“Vote your conscious not your election. “
“Please be advised and understanding of the significant pressures we as Council Members are being adhered too, as well as being bullied and forced to make unlike leadership decisions.”
At the end of the letter, Myers declares in all caps “I AM PETERSBURG.”

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‘A modern twist on the Lawrence of Arabia gay invasion’

Daily Mail: ‘I don’t come to rob your country’: First Romanians to arrive in Britain following changes to EU migrant rules insist they are looking for work after being greeted at the airport by Labour MP Keith Vaz
Labour MP even bought some a coffee to find out why they are here
Romanian Victor Spiresau told him he would send his cash back home
‘I don’t come to rob your country. I work and then go home,’ he said
Mr Vaz says Britain should hold referendum on number of EU migrants
Companies advertise 5,000 jobs to recruit Romanian workers
Adverts promise cash daily and say command of English ‘unnecessary’
Today 4,896 jobs advertised in England, but less than 150 in rest of Britain

Comment: A couple of years later the married MP is found consorting with Romanian rent boys:

Mirror: Keith Vaz hid real identity from male escorts: ‘My name’s Jim and I sell washing machines’

MP Keith Vaz tried to hide his real identity from two male escorts by telling them he was a washing machine salesman named Jim.

He blurted out the pseudonym as he was about to engage in sexual activity with two Eastern European male escorts.

As they discussed sex, the men asked the married Labour MP about his work.

Mr Vaz said: “These are industrial washing machines, that I sell. Industrial. For big – for hotels.”

He went on to say the machines were used to clean towels in bulk.

Minutes later, as the men said they undressed, one of the escorts asked Mr Vaz: “What’s your name, by the way?”

He replied: “Jim”, then spelt it out letter by letter, saying: “J-I-M.”

But Mr Vaz had already been rumbled because one of the escorts said he ­recognised the famous and powerful MP from his frequent appearances on television.

Mr Vaz gave the false moniker at his meeting with the men eight days ago.

It followed a string of text messages in which details of the late-night rendezvous – timings, venue and financial arrangements – were discussed.

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Hillary: Putin Conspiring to Aid Trump, Won’t Deny Conspiracy Theories About Her Health Are Sexist, Exits Coughing

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* If Trump somehow pulls through, the cover of the NY Post on the day after the election should have a picture of stunned Hillary with the caption “Schlonged!!!!!”

* It’s really kind of astonishing (in a completely predictable way) how the press lets Hillary Clinton get away with portraying herself as being totally concerned with cybersecurity and keeping our country’s secrets safe.

* Yes, wouldn’t a decent reporter ask a simple follow up question along the lines of, “can you explain what medical diagnosis you have been given for your cough and what is the treatment for it?”

* If Hillary collapses, she can still win by theft. She has 194 Electoral Votes no matter what. Add Ohio (18), Pennsylvania (20), Florida (29), and Virginia (13), and she is at 274. With Kaine on the ticket, a brilliant choice, the “Red State” of Virginia may turn blue, and Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida are stealable.

Trump’s most standard path to victory involves every state Bush won twice, minus Virginia, which gets him to 268, just short (which is why Kaine was such a brilliant choice, Hillary now needs only to win every state GOre or Kerry won plus her VP’s home state). Then picking up ME’s 2nd CD sends the election to the House (unless there is a Hillary mole among his electors), where he probably wins.

Any other state would do and his best chances are the three “purple” states Bush won once (New Mexico (5), New Hampshire (4), Iowa (6), plus the Rust Belt states Michigan (16) and Wisconsin (10)). If he loses Ohio and Florida and gets all of those, he is at 262, so he would need Virginia or Pennsylvania (20) as well, but those are unlikely because Governor McAuliffe in VA or the Philly machine will look the other way while votes are manufactured.

If Trump can win Ohio and Florida, he might lose Colorado (9) and still win with Wisconsin or Michigan or 2 of the purple states. I think his chances are good even if he loses one of those two states — but he has to count on GOP governors Kasich in Ohio and Scott in Florida to not allow shenanigans. I expect Kasich, much as he hates Trump, still won’t want to allow Democrats to steal votes in his state, so this seems achievable. With Florida’s history, there will be extra scrutiny there, and although they use dubious electronic technology I really doubt that the GOP there has allowed the Dems to hack it.

So the map changes surprisingly little. Colorado and New Mexico may have really turned blue, but Michigan or Wisconsin or NH+Iowa make up for that. I think Ohio will resist attempted fraud and go to Trump. Florida as usual is the wild card. Without it, and factoring in the likely losses of Colorado and NM, he would need Michigan plus Wisconsin plus NH-or-Iowa plus either VA or PA, very unlikely, but maybe Colorado isn’t so blue as all that.

Prediction: Trump wins the popular vote (because the theft will be concentrated where it will do the most good), but needs Florida for the win, and the Supreme court is tied 4-4 this time around….then someone dies.

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