<![CDATA[More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture]]>http://www.ammoland.com/2016/05/dry-rot-academia/?utm_source=Ammoland+Subscribers&utm_campaign=5628ef5283-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6f6fac3eaa-5628ef5283-20770865#axzz48G6oPGJ7

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USA – -(Ammoland.com)- Jason Riley has now joined the long and distinguished list of people invited — and then disinvited — to give a talk on a college campus, in this case Virginia Tech.
Mr. Riley is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and, perhaps most relevantly, author of a very insightful book titled “Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed.”
In short, Jason Riley’s views on race are different from the views that prevail on most college campuses. At one time, 50 years ago or earlier, exposing students to a different viewpoint was considered to be a valuable part of their education.
But that was before academia — and the education system in general — became virtually a monopoly of the political left.
Today one can literally go from kindergarten to becoming a graduate student seeking a Ph.D., without ever hearing a vision of the world that conflicts with the vision of the left.
Conservative critics who object on grounds that the views of the left are wrong miss the point. Regardless of whose views become a monopoly, education suffers. John Stuart Mill understood this back in the middle of the 19th century.
As a young Marxist in college during the 1950s heyday of the anti-Communist crusade led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, I had more freedom to express my views in class, without fear of retaliation, than conservative students have on many campuses today.
After being invited by conservative students to give talks at various colleges, Jason Riley has then been surprised at how little those conservative students have said during the question and answer periods after these talks. But a Wellesley student explained: “You get to leave when you’re done. We have to live with these people until we graduate.”
Even liberal professors can be adversely affected by the narrow groupthink that prevails. Without an opposition to keep them on their toes, they can develop sloppy habits of dismissing or even demonizing differing viewpoints, instead of practicing and teaching their students how to come to grips with opposing beliefs.
A well-known Harvard professor, for example, recently referred to Justice Clarence Thomas by remarking: “He’ll say he pulled himself up by his own bootstraps. I say I was in the right place at the right time.”
It so happens that I first met Clarence Thomas back in 1978, when he was a young lawyer in Missouri. In all these years, I have never heard him say anything even resembling what has been blithely attributed to him by this Harvard professor.
On the contrary, Justice Thomas has attributed his good fortune to his grandfather who raised him, especially in his autobiography, “My Grandfather’s Son.”
When he was sworn in as a Justice of the Supreme Court, he brought the nuns who had taught him in school, down in Georgia, to the ceremony in Washington, at his own expense, to let them know that what they had done for him was appreciated, and had not been in vain.
There is no reason why our Harvard professor has to agree with Justice Thomas’ judicial philosophy or his social views. But, as the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan once put it: “You’re entitled to your own opinions, but you’re not entitled to your own facts.”
It was much the same story when a faculty member at the University of California at Santa Barbara referred to economist Walter Williams as someone “committed to the welfare of the top few.”
It so happens that I have known Walter Williams since 1969. In all those years, I have never once known him to express the slightest concern for the welfare of rich people. But what I have seen repeatedly has been his expressing his concern for people who are poor, both in words and in deeds.
As an economist, Professor Williams knows that high tax rates on investors chase investments — and American jobs — overseas, where American working people cannot get those jobs. But, whether the academic in Santa Barbara agrees or disagrees with that analysis, it is no good for him, or for his students, to dismiss opposing views by misrepresenting them.
These are just a few samples of the intellectual and moral dry rot on the many campuses across the country where the groupthink of the left substitutes for education.
About Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, as well as a prolific author including Black Rednecks And White Liberals. His website is www.tsowell.com. To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read his articles visit his website above.
]]>https://brownsboard.com/topic/40434/more-tyranny-by-obamao-s-fascist-left-liberal-brownshirt-subcultureRSS for NodeThu, 01 Oct 2026 01:11:10 GMTTue, 10 May 2016 13:25:22 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Fri, 19 Aug 2016 14:22:59 GMT]]>lol... there's a pill for that... but I forget it's name...

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/627315https://brownsboard.com/post/627315Fri, 19 Aug 2016 14:22:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:59:32 GMT]]>

@tour2ma said:

ADD?

Sorry I lost my concentration after the AD...

WSS

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/627285https://brownsboard.com/post/627285Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:59:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:51:49 GMT]]>ADD?

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/627280https://brownsboard.com/post/627280Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:51:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Thu, 18 Aug 2016 23:21:39 GMT]]>http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/1977/06/carters-defense-budget


In short, the Carter defense budget rejects the most important premise about the character of the military threat facing the United States adopting instead a military posture which reflects the hope that some early agreement can be found that would elim inate the need to improve the capability of U.S. forces to the point where they would offset the increments added to Soviet military power since the late 1960s. To date, there is no evidence that such a posture would be successful Commitments made by Inde e d, because the Soviet Union's leadership does not share the world view of the American leadership, there is a possibility that the cuts in American defense capability initiated by the Carter Administration 7 could be misinterpreted by the Soviet Union as a lack of resolve.


Should the Soviet leadership assimilate such a perspective, the pros peetsZ for increased tension and clashes of interest with the Soviet U1iio.n become greater rather than less, a result directly opposed to the one sought by the Carter defense posture in the first place.
]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/627159https://brownsboard.com/post/627159Thu, 18 Aug 2016 23:21:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Thu, 18 Aug 2016 21:50:02 GMT]]>Wrong? On the misuse of Syrain refugee data?

Something else?

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/627103https://brownsboard.com/post/627103Thu, 18 Aug 2016 21:50:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:21:34 GMT]]>I still think you're just po'd that you were proven completely wrong on some subject.

You've gone all heckish. That's not good.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/627028https://brownsboard.com/post/627028Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:21:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:36:47 GMT]]>All your density cannot be attributable to a tin-foil hat...

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/626958https://brownsboard.com/post/626958Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:36:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:11:03 GMT]]>you should try it. That mistake was real, not like the conjured up non-existent "offense" you conjured up.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/626931https://brownsboard.com/post/626931Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:11:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:07:41 GMT]]>Was that an a-p-o-l-o-g-y?

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/626927https://brownsboard.com/post/626927Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:07:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:59:34 GMT]]>ah. I thought it was in reference to my post, and maybe I pasted something bad into it.

"never mind"

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/626913https://brownsboard.com/post/626913Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:59:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:56:41 GMT]]>

@westside-steve said:

Well damn sorry I missed that! Were they cute?

I'll never know... went nowhere near the links.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/626909https://brownsboard.com/post/626909Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:56:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:19:33 GMT]]>I saw it ..it was just rambling spam nonsense.

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@tour2ma said:

cal... please read carefully...

Unless you created an alt account under the name "HowardK" and made a few posts of the same stuff with some copy/paste rambling about the Ukraine with three links to chinese wives you have nothing to worry about...

Then again the posting style if not the content was similar to yours...

Three, Steve... all embedded under some variation of "chinese wives" inserted in random spots of completely unrelated text.

Well damn sorry I missed that! Were they cute?

WSS

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/626867https://brownsboard.com/post/626867Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:16:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:10:59 GMT]]>cal... please read carefully...

Unless you created an alt account under the name "HowardK" and made a few posts of the same stuff with some copy/paste rambling about the Ukraine with three links to chinese wives you have nothing to worry about...

Then again the posting style if not the content was similar to yours...

@westside-steve said:

Was there an ad or a link?

Three, Steve... all embedded under some variation of "chinese wives" inserted in random spots of completely unrelated text.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/626863https://brownsboard.com/post/626863Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:10:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Thu, 18 Aug 2016 09:34:41 GMT]]>

@tour2ma said:

It was a spam post... has been removed...

Was there an ad or a link?

Or just the unintelligible rambling?

I only read a few lines.

WSS

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/626730https://brownsboard.com/post/626730Thu, 18 Aug 2016 09:34:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Thu, 18 Aug 2016 00:39:05 GMT]]>I see, you ran to the mods. But if I posted a spam post, it was by accident.

not intentional.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/626693https://brownsboard.com/post/626693Thu, 18 Aug 2016 00:39:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Wed, 17 Aug 2016 22:34:18 GMT]]>It was a spam post... has been removed...

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/626644https://brownsboard.com/post/626644Wed, 17 Aug 2016 22:34:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Wed, 17 Aug 2016 20:51:46 GMT]]>What howard link? Maybe I included a bad one and it's deleted, but I checked the links

I posted, they work fine....

?

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/626616https://brownsboard.com/post/626616Wed, 17 Aug 2016 20:51:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:19:53 GMT]]>I would not click a link... weirdest spam I've seen this side of a typical post by cal...

Reported for removal by mods... the HowardKi post... not cal...

I'd miss my lil bitch too much.

@bbedward said:

But my main point here is I think you should expand your horizons a bit - it seems like you only get your news from The Blaze and from Ammoland, I think you should broaden your perspective a bit.

Almost made a dent, bb... good effort...

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/626545https://brownsboard.com/post/626545Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:19:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:09:21 GMT]]>I suspect google translate.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/626400https://brownsboard.com/post/626400Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:09:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Wed, 17 Aug 2016 12:06:33 GMT]]>I am guessing there are either some very serious speech to text problems going on here or that English is not Howard's first language.

WSS

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/626381https://brownsboard.com/post/626381Wed, 17 Aug 2016 12:06:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Wed, 17 Aug 2016 06:02:42 GMT]]>]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/626339https://brownsboard.com/post/626339Wed, 17 Aug 2016 06:02:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Tue, 10 May 2016 14:16:42 GMT]]>so, "broaden perspective" based on what, exactly?

the refusal of liberal media to talk about news they don't like?

It's no wonder the news directly contradicts liberals sentiments.

They don't get the news, and they hate where the news is actually reported.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/604411https://brownsboard.com/post/604411Tue, 10 May 2016 14:16:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to More tyranny by ObaMao's fascist left/liberal brownshirt subculture on Tue, 10 May 2016 14:14:50 GMT]]> Virginia Tech YAF Speaks out on the Censorship of ...
www.yaf.org/news/9396-2

Riley, a conservative, was disinvited after the finance department head Vijay Singal discovered his publication, ... At this time, Jason Riley is still uninvited.

now, here is a salon article about him.

Except it argues with Jason Riley's beliefs, from 2014.

that's the first two pages....

page 3 of the search on "Jason Riley uninvited".....

nothing on being uninvited. Nope.

There is this:

http://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2014/10/06/jason_riley_the_realclearreligion_interview.html

page 4... nope. No news articles again, on Jason Riley being UNINVITED....

page 5... nope. A good article about Jason Riley and Ferguson...

http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/18/wsjs-jason-riley-unloads-on-obama-black-leadership-and-the-media-over-ferguson-video/

page 6....nope. No news at all about Jason Riley being uninvited.

page....wait. I think you get my point, eh?

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