Congress holds a hearing on the college free speech issue - Fun to see where various congress people stand on this

@entropyseekswork @Mariposa Electrique

It's live at the time of the post:
http://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=106331

So far we've already had one leftist congresswoman claim there's a white supremacist problem on Campuses. It's interesting as so far you have left speakers saying that there is indeed a problem on campuses, but don't want congress to get involved and see colleges as being able to handle themselves ok. There's a view among them that yeah there's a violent leftist movement on campuses BUT what about those white supremacists posting hateful stickers on campus?

For instance Dr. Zimmerman said things like STEM dissing liberal arts and minorities being ignored is a reason post-modernism became a thing in liberal arts again.

Special guests include:

Ben Shapiro
Adam Carolla
Head of the Anti-Defamation League, Mr. Laurence
Ms. Strossen of NYU Law
Dr. Zimmerman, College Administrator at Evergreen College
Southern Poverty Law rep. (edit: misheard, they were just bringing up articles by them.)

More hearings are being scheduled, they look to have students testify at the next one.

 

[NoStinkingBadges]

Yet Washington couldn't stop Hamilton and Jefferson from bitching at one another so much they created the bipartisan system of government that has worked out just fantastic

 

[Duke Nukem]

I have a lot of respect for the founding fathers for realizing that inevitably people are going to vote complete and utter exceptional individuals into office and safeguards were needed to prevent those aforementioned exceptional individuals from sending the country on the slow bus straight to hell.

That eventuality is coming straight for us sooner than you think. No amount of safeguards can survive a pummeling from a succession of exceptional individuals for very long, especially of the strain that we have now.

Suffice it to say that both Republicans and Democrats are about as popular as gonorrhea these days, and quite rightly so.

 

[RockVolnutt]

I have a lot of respect for the founding fathers for realizing that inevitably people are going to vote complete and utter exceptional individuals into office and safeguards were needed to prevent those aforementioned exceptional individuals from sending the country on the slow bus straight to hell.

Imagine trolling someone so hard that nearly 250 years later people are still Ree'ing. I idolize that level of skill.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Yet Washington couldn't stop Hamilton and Jefferson from bitching at one another so much they created the bipartisan system of government that has worked out just fantastic

Our system is still standing though. How many other governments rise and fall within a generation for no better reason than they can't stop squabbling?

That eventuality is coming straight for us sooner than you think. No amount of safeguards can survive a pummeling from a succession of exceptional individuals for very long, especially of the strain that we have now

Eh, we've had serious plagues of both yellow journalism and mccarthyist wrongthink witch-hunts multiple times before and we survived.

Don't get me wrong, it's serious enough now we can't ignore it, but there are a lot of people like us who aren't ignoring it and I have faith that the extremists' inability to stop putting off outsiders will ultimately damn them.

 

[Feline Darkmage]

Imagine trolling someone so hard that nearly 250 years later people are still Ree'ing. I idolize that level of skill.

At this point in my life I'm starting to think to get others to produce REE trolling isn't needed any more. Everyone invested in politics is such a little bitch all you need to do is disagree with them sincerely and every epithet in the book will be thrown at you.

 

[CWCissey]

Here's how we solve the free speech problems at unis. Triple the fees for Liberal Arts and other useless degrees, pump that money into making STEM courses free. Society wins.