Snowflakes Are Useful Idiots #21: Real Critical Thinking Has Disappeared From Our Universities

On campuses across the country, the same illiberal attitude toward disagreeable speech is growing, and the broader public must take notice.--Jake Curtis

The Evergreen State College insurrection just won't go away, as the leftist victim in the center of the cesspool, Professor Bret Weinstein, describes the internal scene as "descending further into madness", and National Review's Tiana Lowe calls for legislators to cut off taxpayers' money to send a message to the fascist mob: intolerance and threats of violence will no longer be tolerated.

On the bright side, an Evergreen student defends the college, writing:

I’m left wondering, where is the racism I keep hearing so much about? This place is so not racist. If it was any less racist, it could be the textbook example for MLK’s dream. It’s so far left its professors and policies often make Bernie Sanders look moderate.

Yet I kept hearing about racist campus police, and racist professors, and racists campus policies, and institutional racism. Then I asked for specifics. Big mistake.

The response I get in person and online can be summarized thusly: “Asking about racism is perpetuating racism.” “Seeking evidence is oppressive.”

Ironic, is it not, that he also says that, "our conduct code prohibits racism and discrimination in all it’s myriad forms..." Right.

Mizzou Madness came with huge pricetag.

Mizzou's got a new trail boss, and he's got a nasty job: Gluing the University back together after "three semesters of suppressing free speech." The public has responded to Mizzou's atmosphere of violent political correctness by voting with their money and sending their offspring elsewhere: Enrollment has "plummeted by 35%" since the snowflake outbreak. The economic cost of Mizzou's fascist mob has been steep, as over 300 jobs have been cut due to reduced revenue caused by the public backlash.

• Barrett, James: This Interview With A Professor Accused Of 'Racism' By His Leftist Colleagues Is Disturbing

Weinstein: I’m still on the email distribution lists, so I’m watching the traffic inside of my college and I’m able to compare it to the huge flood of stuff that I’m seeing from the outside world as they get wind of what’s going on at Evergreen. The difference is a million miles. Inside of Evergreen, actually, we are descending further into madness. The faculty are blaming the fact that the campus had to be suddenly closed due to a threat from the outside yesterday on me, for having talked about this in the outside world…The intensity and the out-of-touch nature of the discussion inside the college simply reinforces the impression that something is desperately off, that what we really have is a filter bubble that is so strong that even when the world sends very clear evidence that you’ve missed something somewhere and it’s time to rethink what you’ve been doing, they’re not waking up.

• College Fix: Mizzou bloodbath continues: Massive layoffs coming as enrollment craters

The University of Missouri is closing seven dorms next year because of a massive enrollment plunge, and now the austerity is extending to the campus bureaucracy.

• Curtis, Jake: The Campus Speech Police Come to Fresno State

  "Nobody, however, has done more to reveal the true nature of modern progressives’ illiberalism than Fresno State professor Gregory Thatcher. Thanks to cell-phone video and a timely complaint filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom, Thatcher’s utter contempt for contrary political thought was exposed after he directed students to scrub pro-life messages that had been scrawled on campus sidewalks by the Fresno State chapter of Students for Life. This sort of mentality is endemic in American academia — and increasingly in society at large."

  Happily (from where I sit), Associate Professor Thatcher is being sued by two Fresno State students. I wish them all the luck in the world.

  
  Feelings trump the First Amendment?

• Kabbany, Jennifer: Evergreen official asks student vigilantes to stop patrolling campus armed with bats, batons

An official at Evergreen State College sent a memo to students Sunday asking an apparent group of campus vigilantes who have taken to patrolling the grounds armed with bats or batons to end the practice, according to an email forwarded to The College Fix.

Gosh, I guess we know why one of the snowflakes' demands was the disarming of campus police...

• Lemonides, Zachary: College Student: Give Conservatives Freedom and Safety

High profile attempts to shut down conservative speakers such as Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos in Universities across the country are only the tip of the iceberg of a widespread cultural movement with the goal of making even moderately republican views radioactive and untouchable.

This movement targets not only well known speakers, but anyone and everyone who do not fit the narrative of the left-wing orthodoxy. Professors have been harassed for expressing support for Trump. After the election, conservative students on several campuses across the country were verbally harassed and sometimes physically attacked by other students.

The hypocrisy is stunning.

• Lowe, Tiana: It’s time for legislators to send a message to the illiberal student mob.

Weinstein is wrong that Evergreen State is worth saving. Public funding constitutes 46 percent of Evergreen’s annual revenue — $55.2 million from state appropriations and $32.3 million in state and federal grants. A public college that cannot defend the First Amendment or even the basic safety of its professors doesn’t deserve a cent of the taxpayers’ money.

• Melchior, Jillian Kay: Mizzou’s New Chancellor Stands up to the Thought Police, Calls for ‘Diversity of Thought’

Mizzou’s newly appointed chancellor, Alexander Cartwright, has said that the university’s definition of diversity must include “diversity of thought.”

Speaking at his introduction at the university, Cartwright applauded Mizzou’s commitment to “inclusion, diversity and equity.”

That’s an important specification for a university that’s spent the past three semesters under fire for suppressing free speech.

• Peralta, Claire: Layoffs, program cuts begin at Mizzou following budget address

“Those who are being separated from MU are not at fault in any way,” Interim Chancellor Stokes said in an email to colleagues. “Indeed, we are losing talented and dedicated administrators, faculty and staff, some who have served the university faithfully for many years. This is a painful step that circumstances have required us to take.”

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