"Free Speech Supports Fascism and White Supremacy"

You read that correctly...

This post title is the claim made by "social justice warrior" students who stormed the stage while the University of Oregon President, Michael H. Schill, was giving a state-of-the-university address earlier this month in Eugene, Oregon. Mr. Schill makes a very insightful point about this growing problem in this article.

I'm going to get directly to the point... what these student have in intelligence and knowledge (as limited as that is), they lack in experience and wisdom.

The phenomenon we're seeing with these radicalized students who are convinced they're protecting democracy is, in my opinion and from my teaching experience, revealing how ignorant and caught up in "group think" they are about the concept of free speech. Many believe they're justified, in their view, that if anyone is saying something which offends their sensitivities, views, or concepts about anything, in committing violence, by any means necessary, to shut down anyone from being able to speak their opinion on it. Is this merely a spontaneous occurrence of stupidity, or is there an origin to it?

My theory on this question contains several causes; one, a lack of civics - including an explanation of the reasons and circumstances of that period as to why the concepts put forth in the Bill of Rights in the Constitution were included - being taught in public schools since the '70s, two, a combination of liberal coddling by parents who've protected them from any experience of struggle or difficulty in their lives, along with the modeling that the "Organizer-in-Chief" so subtly provided them while they were in middle-school and high school, three, note the particular choice of words used in the chant as they walked down the isles and stood on the stage; "Nothing about us, without us." On the surface, this chant seems to be demanding a voice in the decisions at the university. However, for me, this is an expression of no only their immaturity in regard to their role there, but also their self-centeredness which has been fostered by parents and prior school experience. (I wouldn't be surprised that, should future investigation reveal evidence to support the possibility that someone like George Soros, and his "Open Society" movement money, has been funneled into nearly every college and university across the country to pay insurgents - like the student speaking at the end of the video in this article - to foment the rioting and shout downs which are taking place.)

For eight years, "the police acted stupidly", "if he was my son, he'd look like me", and the fake news myth perpetuated by the media of "hands up don't shoot" became the accepted train of thinking about the race relations in our country; especially in the urban centers of our increasingly divided states.

Now that they're at colleges, their professors who engage in perpetuating the ideology that America is bad and social injustice must be corrected which took place over 150 years ago, these students believe they're engaged in moral crusade of correcting wrongs that neither side of the issue were ever involved in directly! If events like this have occurred at high schools, why haven't we learned about them in the news or on the Internet? (My guess is that the local school district's P.R. department isn't willing to let such a story out, but that may yet come.)

At this point, it appears that they have the momentum. Is it possible to turn this around? Yes, but only if there are more college and university presidents who, unlike the former president of Evergreen State College in Washington State last year, have a backbone and understanding of what's going on and how to deal with it.