Unhinged at UMass
If you want your kids to go to a university that teaches tolerance for dissent, respect for free speech, and the ability to debate ideological opponents without screaming at them and waving ferrets in their faces, do not — I repeat, do not — send them to the University of Massachussetts .
For crying out loud.
It never ends.
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What a bunch of cretins – and dangerous cretins if they ever get into power..Oh,oh.. I think they already are.
Mockery, derision, ridicule, and lawlessness: The liberal MO. These people no more care about the Constitution than they do the dirt under their feet. They are unenlightened, willfully ignorant fools. You cannot fix that.
What’d you expect? Everyone know the First Amendment only applies to looney, left-wing liberals.
The lesson: Accuse your opponents of propagating “hate speech,” and proceed to shut them down with all the self-righteous edification endowed upon you by the academia and enabled by the media.
From the article:
Yes…campuses are places for “open-mindedness”, unless someone professes a conservative, or contrary-to-liberalism, point of view. I’m sure Ms. Tylim and Ms. Perry will never understand the irony of their statement. Or, as others say, they’re so open-minded their brains have fallen out.
These people are the biggest hypocrites EVER. Freedom, tolerance, and diversity for all manner of sexual proclivity and various liberal victimhoods, but not someone who makes a rational argument against the very unconstitutional – and anti-freedom – laws that are “hate crimes” (i.e., conservatives).
I’m confused. Speeches ABOUT hate speech now constitute hate speech?
Liberals make so many rules, I can never keep up!
Liberalism is a Philosophy of Tolerance as Islam is a Religion of Peace.
Ferret waving is the new shoe shoe throwing.
sorry for the repeat repeat word.
An uneducated populace has always historically been much easier to control. Education should be about critical thinking skills and actual education and not in indoctrination, morals or ethics. Unfortunately, this seems to be the result of the latter.
As ignorant as you are, you do have that part right, mizzzzzz Tylim. Your campus was the opposite.
What is ironic is that when tyranny does arrive, the idiots in the room are among the first arrested. Thoswe who have enabled the oppressors know how dangerous people with a dissenters mindset are so……. to the gulag.
Ah, reminds me of my little liberal arts college. Everyone was accepting of everyone all the time as long as you agreed with them.
I remember we had a ladies night party, and the feminists protested unequal treatment of womyn. They wanted to go, they just didn’t want to get in for free. Somehow suppressive.
I’ve been asked things like “why do athletes rape womyn?” and “you don’t believe in verbal rape?”.
You can’t parody the absurd.
Shouting down someone to display the right to free speech. What’s the reading on the ironic-o-meter?
Don’t groups like CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood do the same thing at speeches? They are not liberal, but they are Fascist. See the connection?
They don’t call it “ZooMass” for nothing.
Liberal mantra – “Free speech for me, but not for thee.”
and other ironies of the left.
Good name for a book.
Maybe I’ll get started.
two examples of compassionate free speech free idea flow liberals shutting down via protest scheduled meeting. acorn and la teacher union employees and now the product of those propaganda years, university students. i remember when they took over universities from berkley to columbia, and bombed people to show that free speech and thought were important. wonder when the rotc groups banned in san fran start throwing bombs into berkely? poetic justice, but those kids won’t because they have honor and values.
Free speach to a liberal is free speach I agree with.
There’s a pattern here. Remember that the Democrat definition of bipartisanship is when Republicans shut up and do what they’re told.
You never see or hear the university leadership come out an denounce this behavior.
Makes you wonder why those students with conservative views who pay to attend don’t receive support and an equal opportunity from their school administration.
Go to the school bookstore and outside food vendors and tell the cashier/owner outright that sorry, but you’re NOT buying ANYTHING from there because of such intolerance. That’ll trickle down a little earthy sense to the school officials!
James Greenidge
Queens, NY
Feder used to be in the thick of things and he was one hell of a warrior for our side. It’s too bad that he’s not on the national scene anymore.
Better yet, if you’re an alum, call and tell them donations are stopping until UMass actually becomes a place of open-mindedness and tolerance of diversity – especially conservatives.
Colleges are in sever need of some major reform. I think these students would s–t themselves if they ever actually learned the history of the Brownshirts and the Hitler Youth.
Of course, they’d actually have to have been taught how to think instead of what to think in order for them to make the connection between themselves and actual fascists, though. Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism should be required reading for any kid who’s about to be going to college. And anyone else, for that matter…
I’m looking forward to the day when the internet offers a clearinghouse of self-study university classes that by and large offers degrees without having to set foot on campus. I know it already exists in many ways, but I think not subsidizing these Universities and not attending them is about the only way to see to it that this behavior is changed. I know, I know, the dolts out there will still attend. At least, more people would not be subjected to liberal indocrination and have to pay for it as well.
It has been going on for years. After I left the service, I attended my first graduate school orientation party and when new students compared financial aid, I said I was there on what was left of the GI. Bill of Rights.
A chill spread about our part of the room, and a student said “you don’t belong here you fascist. We’ll get rid of you.” I earned a MA with thesis, accreditation to teach in community college, and nine hours toward a PHD in four semesters and a summer school session.
A job counselor told a Navy friend and I if we wanted to teach in northern colleges we needed to hide our status as veterans. My friend and other veterans transferred to law school. I dropped out to farm.
To Ms Tylim, Ms. Perry and the rest,
“I see your dirty face
hide behind your collar
What is done in vain
Truth is hard to swallow
So you pray to God
Just to solve
The way you live,
You live a lie
You live a lie
And you take your time
And you do your crime
Well you made your bed
I made mine.”
Li’l Wayne and others.
Yes, good ol’ ZooMass, my alma mater. But it didn’t used to be like that. Way back in the day, you could get a good liberal arts education there, with only minimal student loans and work study programs. I know I did, and my loans were paid back within a few years.
It may not be that way any more… Sad. It’s a beautiful campus, out there in the Happy Valley.
Seeing what our education system from kindergarten through college has done to our children, and continues to do…it truly frightening. Unless and until we can get these propaganda machines under control, this will only get worse. These “kids” are only doing what they have been brainwashed to do from the minute they stepped foot out of their parent’s home. We lose all control of the message once they enter the public school system. They really think that shutting down the free speech of anyone they disagree with is NECESSARY! This really does scare the he## out of me!
Has anyone see the segment on Hannity (I think) where this guy finds false statements in history books and informs the publisher of the errors? He also finds propaganda and America-bashing rampant in the books, from grade school on. I have made it a personal mission to READ every single history book my grandchildren use in school. I will get a copy and read it and put flags on everything I find objectionable. And I will scream bloody murder. Count on it! We can’t afford to send our grandchildren to private schools. And our daughters and sons-in-law all have to work just to make the mortgage payments…so home schooling is out of the question. But I can make darn sure my grandchildren learn the REAL history of this country! Thank God, my daughters are conservatives and will teach their children right from wrong.
Someone said, “Let’s ferret out the truth”, and so one of the the liberal intelligentsia grabbed his ferret…
Does lgm teach at UMass? Read some of his posts, he would fit right in with this mind-set.
My oldest daughter went to a Christian college (Valparaiso) and she is very very conservative. My younger daughter went to a more liberal college (Purdue) and is a bit more moderate. Fortunately, she had a solid conservative upbringing and was able to withstand all the liberal garbage that was continually flung her way. Many kids can’t. The only mistake my younger daughter made was in marrying a liberal! I am working on him and do see some hope.
“Both sides wanted controversy, and both sides got it.”
Typical media ploy. By his mere existence, Don Feder was asking for controversy. Thus, him showing up is equivalent to the far left’s Stalinist actions to squelch free speech.
These people are mad.
Reminds me of my Catholic liberal arts college too – the only reason why I missed Magna Cum Laude was because of my disagreement in a religion class.
And yes, this is what a liberal education will do to a mind not ready for critical thinking, willing to follow the group think and unwilling to hear other thoughts and ideas.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve noticed that liberal arts grads from liberal colleges seem to always end up in government or non-profit work. They never seem to work in “real world” jobs; perhaps because they have no real skills.
I’m absolutely blown away by this quote. Not just by how brain-dead it is, but also the dripping condescension and self-righteousness which I’m sure it was delivered with.
Very good point. That part jumped out at me too, but couldn’t figure out why. Now I know.
happyscrapper, he will come around as he starts paying those taxes. what’s a liberal who has been mugged,a conservative. whats a liberal who actually pays tax, a conservative.
Employers are going to figure out what a U Mass degree is worth if this keeps up.
These people need to be mocked, mercilessly for their surrender in the battle of ideas. Mom and dad paid over $100,000 and all these people can do is throw tantrums?
I know kids who could do that before they went to kindergarten, and it didn’t cost a dime.
There are a lot of moms and dads who, if they knew what was going on in their kids’ college, would yank them so fast, they wouldn’t have time to pack! Parents, WAKE UP! And this myth about how essential it is to have a college degree to get even the lowest jobs is perpetrated by the colleges themselves. The best college is the university of life experience.
Reminds me of a quotation I wrote down many years ago. “Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.” …
Benjamin Franklin
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)
Labeling UMass for this is kind of a crziness broad brush. Umass-Amherst for sure, moonbat central. Maybe even UMass-Boston. I don’t think my alma mater UMass-Lowell is anything like this. I’m not sure about UMass-Datmouth.
Of course all conservatives are haters, therefore we never have to listen to them, and are justified in keeping them from speaking, or something.
My ferrets take extreme offense with the concept of ferret waving. They want their own hate speech codes now.
Here’s a man who called this as part of a 20 year plan … 25 years ago …
Hate Speech does not equal Free Speech and that little sissy hippie wannabe is just the lad to make the decision on which is which. From his type come our bureaucrats, teachers and in the past
New York Times reporters.
Hating Leftist: it is not just a Job–It is an Adventure.
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Keep the change-I’ll keep my guns
There are many students at UMass who generally do not jeer, riot, burn, toss beer cans out of dorm windows, throw temper tandrums, etc. and the reason they do not, IMO, speaks volumes to the problem we have with liberal domination in MSM and government. That reason is because the ones who conduct themselves like adults are the very ones who came to college to learn how to be productive in life – exactly the opposite of what we get from government and MSM.
Who are they? Mostly the science majors like engineering, math/hard science, biology/pre-med/nursing, etc. as well as the business/management/accounting majors. The anarchist clowns who we see with nothing better to do than to act like 4 year olds – really do not have anything better to do! They are not in college to actually learn anything, they are there to waste their time and their parent’s money to ‘find themsleves’. Mommy and daddy know that if they do not go to college they’ll stay in the basement smoking dope and playing video games all day so at least sending them to UMAss keeps the house smelling fresh. They do not actually have the first CLUE of what they want for a career, they do not have ANY perseption of what it means to be PRODUCTIVE.
Behold the typical UMass Humanities and Fine Arts student majoring in “Afro-American Studies” or “Women’s Studies” or “Theater”, etc. Here, the flash intro for that college speaks for itself. (I have to include some other majors outside HFA with them like “Political Science” and “Psychology” which we all know are not actually ’science’ at all.)
The engineering majors graduate and find engineering jobs; the bio majors become doctors and nurses; finance majors find banking jobs, etc.
The liberal arts students escape and head in one of two directions, grow up, smell the coffee and do something worthwhile OR – hang on to their childish ways as politicians or MSM reporters.
Yeah, a few manage to make it to Hollywood or Broadway, become professors of Afro-American Studies, get a Phd in Psychology, etc. or … end up being great journalists like Michelle Malkin – but not many; certainly not enough.
Though appropriately named “Zoo-Mass”, it actually has a school of engineering. They keep them, the real science majors, business majors, etc. all tucked away in the quiet Northeast quadrant – away from the spoiled brats who were sent to college by mommy and daddy who only wanted to get the pot smell out of the basement.
My son graduated from there with an MSCE; the stories he’s told me….
Back when he was just a freshman he once asked, “Dad, what does a person actually DO with a degree in “Afro-American Studies?” I answered, “I don’t really know; maybe become a professor of it?”
Ah yes, UMASS Amherst, home of Rene Gonzalez, author of “Pat Tillman is not a hero: he got what was coming to him,” and Jennie Traschen, an associate professor of physics at the University of Masschusetts’ Amherst campus, picked Sept. 10, 2001, of all days, to make the following pronouncement: “The [American] flag is a symbol of tyranny and fear and destruction and terrorism.” Traschen was speaking in favor of a measure banning the display of the flag on Amherst’s Main Street. The Amherst Board of Selectmen, also possessed of exquisitely bad timing, went on to pass the antiflag ordinance that same night.
Just the tip of the iceberg. The Five Colleges area is a rat’s nest of radical liberalism.
The also protested Mike Adams, Ann Coulter and tore up a prochoice display all the while having a nice pro Marxist teaching convention in the student center. I went to see what was there, and it was festooned with rags like “Radical Teacher” and like publications for our future teachers.
See: http://www.radicalteacher.org/about.asp
Given that we’re talking about what goes on in Western Massachusetts, I can’t pass this up; it’s just toooo funny!
I graduated UMass Boston. One day on the shuttle bus to campus, I heard one moonbat to say a new student Moonbat that the Boston Globe is Conservative and the Boston Herald is Facist
This was the first time I ever heard the Boston Globe Fishwrapper called “Conservative”. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at the stupidity of these Moonbats.
We had a very small College Republican organization and we were not able to be very active because of hostile opposition.