UCLA bans book defending free speech
UCLA administrator helps "protestors" physically block access to book deemed "inflammatory": Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism: From George W. Bush to Barack Obama and Beyond, which defends free speech against Islamo-fascist bigotry.
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog...
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"In a letter to ARI, the UCLA School of Law issued a formal apology for the incident, and it explained that the decision to ban the book was inconsistent with its vigorous commitment to freedom of speech and respectful debate. Moreover, the school admitted that it had fallen short of its own commitment to apply policies in a content-neutral manner. The administration detailed steps it is taking to prevent such incidents in the future." https://ari.aynrand.org/blog/2017/02/...
Why should a university "policy" on freedom of books in a "content-neutral manner" be necessary at all and why was it not obvious to officials that their suppression was wrong from the beginning?
"This shameful incident reflects a wider phenomenon on American campuses. At university, students should learn to think, to engage with different views, and thus to grow intellectually. But increasingly, students learn to put their feelings above facts. Some students demand to be protected from what they merely believe, without evidence, are uncongenial views. They demand that non-orthodox views be silenced. And such universities as UCLA willingly coddle and appease them."
For the intellectual similarities between the US and the rise of fascism in Germany see Leonard Peikoff's book The Ominous Parallels. The book grew out of a series of lectures he gave in the 1970s on the parallels between the New Left violence of the time and Germany of the 1930s that you refer to.
The public that supports tax-funded "education" does not see that and doesn't know what it's about. A lot of people do not support the violent outbursts on campuses, but are torn between that and subsidizing "education" because they don't understand the intellectual battle and don't understand why statist support of education, including their own children's, is wrong and is leading to the violent 'protests'.
See Leonard Peikoff's Teaching Johny to Think: A Philosophy of Education Based on the Principles of Ayn Rand's Objectivism, edited by Marlene Trollope from the original 1985 lecture series Philosophy of Education https://estore.aynrand.org/p/64/philo... and 1984 Ford Hall Forum lecture Why Johny Can't Think. (The original lecture series is better stylistically than the book; the separate Ford Hall lecture is the same as in the book, taken from the published version he did himself for The Objectivist Forum.)
So would the same concept expressed as "Worldwide Caliphate" despite that being the end game dream of Muslim clerics.
For some perverse reason, Islam is the only religion the left goes out of its way to coddle, though somehow that reminds old dino of Pentecostal "most don't bite" snake handling.
I think the reason normally atheistic leftists always rush to give Islam a pass, regardless of what heinous acts are perpetrated, is because Islam has shown the way on how to convert large swaths of the population into mindlessly obedient slave-like automatons, which is the Mecca of leftist ideology. No pun intended, of course.
Isn't "misogynist" a favored word libs like to use to put their opponents down?
It's almost as if the leftists and Islam are two crocodiles on the loose devouring their common enemy, which is individual liberty. In the end one would have to devour the other. I wish there was a way to just shoot both of those beasts and get it the hell over with.
Well, I got words to describe those name-callers such as bent, broken, emotionally disturbed, perverse, deranged, idiotic, control freak egotists, fascists in denial who instead call themselves libs if not full blown socialists.
I could go on. Got other stuff to do. .
Aha, I see where I may have misled you. Using the word "leftists" in my second paragraph does refer to people, but it wasn't meant to. My mistake. A better choice should have been leftism or statism. I'll be more careful in the future.