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OT: Milo Yiannopoulos & the PC Culture at Rutgers

This is part of a larger issue I've seen develop on both left and right over my lifetime: people don't know when to say when. They start with a philosophy and then they take it to so far that they often end up in a place almost diametrically opposed to where they started from. In cases like this protesting speech has turned into attempts to silence it altogether, which is the opposite of an open forum of ideas. An example on the right is the idea of less government taken so far that we now have people arguing for no government whatsoever in areas of American life--which is essentially anarchy, which is far left.
Who exactly is arguing for no government?
 
This is part of a larger issue I've seen develop on both left and right over my lifetime: people don't know when to say when. They start with a philosophy and then they take it to so far that they often end up in a place almost diametrically opposed to where they started from. In cases like this protesting speech has turned into attempts to silence it altogether, which is the opposite of an open forum of ideas. An example on the right is the idea of less government taken so far that we now have people arguing for no government whatsoever in areas of American life--which is essentially anarchy, which is far left.
There are few staunch defenders of the middle ground.
 
I knew I could count on at least one of the righties to deny whatever it is I wrote. How about like grover norquist, the real power behind the Republican party?
Of course you could count on it....gonna happen when you post stupid nonsense.
 
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Because a group of students have a different opinion, you will not donate to RU? You sound just like the people you rail against. Oh the irony and you don't even see it!!!

How to twist comments on rivals 101. You could teach the class.
Here's what the OP said:
"if RU doesn't reprimand the students that desecrated the school, they will never get another penny from me."
 
We inherited the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and are actually rebounding pretty strongly. And we're also the first generation to really grow up with terrorism in its current form and send lots of great soldiers to defend the country.

A lot of the older generation don't like millenials because they don't agree with their perceived political outlook, which is common for every generation. Some of it, as this board demonstrates often, is the inability of the older generation to understand technology. And whether they want to admit it or not, the boomers in particular and even Generation X had it pretty nice in terms of the economy, especially considering they had little if any student loans, and not plenty of them studied art history and philosophy too. But CUNY and the University of California used to be free, and going to college used to actually guarantee a stable job. Some older folks (I find especially ones without kids or grandkids who are millenials) just want to be in denial and/or afraid of younger people.

One day, hopefully the millenials, will not be the generation of "damn those Beatles/disco/Nirvana/hip hop/EDM" or "long hair freak/man bun" or "bellbottoms/slim jeans" or "record player/cassette player/walkman/ipod" types.
Another ignorant post by this not in our house poster. Ugh !
 
"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it in size to where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."

Grover Norquist

Jesus, can you right wingers ever be honest?
 
"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it in size to where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."

Grover Norquist

Jesus, can you right wingers ever be honest?
Who cares what Grover Norquist says

Grover Norquist speaks for Grover Norquist

So in your mind.....one person speaks for everyone?

Well done
 
People didn't mind the Government when it gave away free houses and free college via the GI Bill. Lots of people benefited from those programs, especially in the establishment of the Middle Class; except for African American Veterans, whom were excluded. I wonder why people are so against the Government, maybe it has something to do with the shift in demographics.
 
People didn't mind the Government when it gave away free houses and free college via the GI Bill. Lots of people benefited from those programs, especially in the establishment of the Middle Class; except for African American Veterans, whom were excluded. I wonder why people are so against the Government, maybe it has something to do with the shift in demographics.

I think you might need a CAT scan.

African American veterans were not excluded from the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944. They may have been discriminated against by local banks and mortgage companies, but the law absolutely did not exclude them.

You've just won a place on the Moron Shelf.
 
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I think you might need a CAT scan.

African American veterans were not excluded from the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944. They may have been discriminated against by local banks and mortgage companies, but the law absolutely did not exclude them.

You've just won a place on the Moron Shelf.

Coming from you, I'll take that as a compliment.

the GI Bill itself had no racial components. The ill treatment of non-whites was in the administration of the bill, not the bill itself.

The GI Bill had a provision that allowed local governments to administer most parts of it. Therefore, the bill allowed white supremacists the ability to oppress efforts by African-Americans to attend quality schools, obtain loans for homes in neighborhoods that had good public schools, etc.

African-American veterans were denied many of the benefits of the GI Bill

The GI Bill became a White Male Affirmative Action Program.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/28/736199/-

http://www.demos.org/blog/11/11/13/how-gi-bill-left-out-african-americans
 
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I think you might need a CAT scan.

African American veterans were not excluded from the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944. They may have been discriminated against by local banks and mortgage companies, but the law absolutely did not exclude them.

You've just won a place on the Moron Shelf.
You are one funny fella. You must have swum in "Duck's Nest" when you were a kid.
 
Who cares what Grover Norquist says

Grover Norquist speaks for Grover Norquist

So in your mind.....one person speaks for everyone?

Well done

I would say he speaks for the people who signed his pledge. And the people who elect those individuals, repeatedly, to Congress. In NJ my guess is no one other than Scott Garrett signed on.
 
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They're partisan hacks. They'll never admit their side is the least bit wrong on anything--unless it's a failure to be ideologically pure and extreme enough--or that anyone in their party or their side of the political spectrum is crazy.
 
You've obviously confused me with someone who gives a crap about your two cents.
Like I thought

You don't have the intellectual capability to have a respectful debate

Care to prove me wrong?
 
Like I thought

You don't have the intellectual capability to have a respectful debate

Care to prove me wrong?

Let me approach this from a different angle...so you can understand more clearly how much I value your opinion. I'm about to try out the "ignore" option for the first time.
 
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Not bad...should have tried this for you and a few others quite some time ago.
It's like somebody opened up a window and let in some fresh air.
 
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