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2019-08-23 Home Front: Culture Wars
Vermont is going insane. Will the rest of the country follow ?
[American Thinker] This spring, visiting professor Ryszard Legutko was prevented from speaking at Vermont's prestigious Middlebury College due to strident opposition by extremist and intolerant students. This was the second such embarrassment for the college: writer Charles Murray and a Middlebury professor were insulted and assaulted there in 2016.

Professor Legutko recently related his perspective on the experience, revealing that the college not only caved to the disruptive and disrespectful students, but legitimized their conduct! Further, the students have set out to proscribe future discourse that might again ignite their sociopathic anarchy.

Last year, our nation's children walked out of high schools to complain about school shootings. Encouraged by teachers and principals, these students proclaimed that they would finally end school violence by effecting changes to national gun laws. Many have praised these optimistic youths; others have condemned them. Both approaches are wrong.

Addressing the rebellion of America's youth in the 1960s, writer Wendell Berry remarked that "this generation is as subject as any other to intelligent scrutiny and judgment, and as deserving of honest criticism. It has received much approbation and condemnation, very little criticism" ("Discipline and Hope," 1970). Mr. Berry argued that the '60s youths correctly criticized their parents' world but that without guidance, they eventually embraced those same values in new forms. Thus, the Flower Children took root in Silicon Valley, where they now grow bald while the military complex and industrial waste flourish.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-08-23 02:15|| || Front Page|| [11 views ]  Top

#1 on Monday boycott classes to protest racism
on Tuesday boycott classes to protest global warming
on Wednesday boycott classes to protest corporate profits
on Thursday boycott classes to protest animal abuse
on Friday boycott classes to protest voting ID laws
Posted by lord garth 2019-08-23 03:19||   2019-08-23 03:19|| Front Page Top

#2 On saturday attend the 'how to protest' workshop.
On sunday see the state appointed shrink.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-08-23 04:38||   2019-08-23 04:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Returning to their parent's basement each evening.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-08-23 05:32||   2019-08-23 05:32|| Front Page Top

#4 The Red Guard.

Just a note to the kiddies, the authorities sent the PLA in to finish them off. Keep it up. We don't have a PLA, but once the leash breaks, we have a militia. If history says anything, they'll be as concerned about 'due process' as you are.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-08-23 06:48||   2019-08-23 06:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Fluoridated water?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-08-23 07:38||   2019-08-23 07:38|| Front Page Top

#6 ...General Jack Ripper to the courtesy phone.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-08-23 07:55||   2019-08-23 07:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Expel the little turds with tuition forfeiture.
Posted by Hupolush Ulereling8010 2019-08-23 08:02||   2019-08-23 08:02|| Front Page Top

#8 No, Hupolush, they're more likely to get free tuition. And bonus credits for Dron's Saturday protest workshop.
Posted by Glenmore 2019-08-23 10:03||   2019-08-23 10:03|| Front Page Top

#9 They'll get as much crap as they are willing to take. Expel them permanently.
Posted by gorb 2019-08-23 12:57||   2019-08-23 12:57|| Front Page Top

#10 When I was a kid in VT - it was all sawmill workers and other yankee rednecks.... then NYC and Boston hippies decided VT was a beautiful thing.... so they spoiled it.
Posted by Mercutio 2019-08-23 13:13||   2019-08-23 13:13|| Front Page Top

#11 Vt has been insane for a while. Look at who they've been electing.
Posted by The peanut gallery 2019-08-23 13:47||   2019-08-23 13:47|| Front Page Top

#12 A degree in protesting won't pay off the student loans.
Posted by ruprecht 2019-08-23 15:02||   2019-08-23 15:02|| Front Page Top

#13 My niece starts college at UVM in a week or so. Alas, she'll fit right in - lives in DC area.
Posted by Glenmore 2019-08-23 16:55||   2019-08-23 16:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Norwich College (Senior Military College) is in northern VT, not far from Burlington. So not all bad.
Posted by Lex 2019-08-23 16:57||   2019-08-23 16:57|| Front Page Top

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