Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

ck4829

ck4829's Journal
ck4829's Journal
February 2, 2023

Oh, THOSE 'different ideas'

“It used to be thought that a university campus was a place where you’d be exposed to a lot of different ideas,” DeSantis said during a bill signing ceremony. “Unfortunately, now the norm is, these are more intellectually repressive environments. You have orthodoxies that are promoted, and other viewpoints are shunned or even suppressed.”

Read more: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/06/florida-students-faculty-will-declare-political-views-prevent-liberal-indoctrination

"Oh, so you mean like in sociology; you have functionalism, symbolic interactionism, and conflict theory; and now they're only teaching one of those things and not even talking about the other two at all?"
"No, not like that."

"Oh! So in studies of evolution, you mean they're only teaching gradualism OR punctuated equilibrium and not having discussions of both, while they both have merit?"
"Uh... no, we're not talking about that."

"OH! You mean they're stifling the "is the universe explained by quantum mechanics or general relativity" debate in physics and have come down on the side of one and are refusing to talk about the other at all? Those jerks!"
"... no, no."

"OK, so in the college restrooms, they have now cruelly decided to put all the toilet paper under instead of over? Those totalitarians!"
"No!"

"Oh... so by 'different ideas', you mean...

Members of the Proud Boys militant group plotted on social media for months ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection to take action against what they believed to be an election stolen from Donald Trump.

On Nov. 27, 2020, defendant Zachary Rehl called for the executions of anyone he believed was stealing the election.

"Hopefully the firing squads are for the traitors that are trying to steal the election from the American people," Rehl wrote, and linked to a news article on the Trump administration's push to bring back firing squads and electrocutions for federal executions.

https://www.rawstory.com/proud-boys-2659341367/

GOP Rep. Eric Burlison, Mad Over Dropped Newsmax, Invokes Holocaust

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-rep-eric-burlison-mad-over-dropped-newsmax-invokes-holocaust

Nick Fuentes says that cops and priests will be the cornerstone of his hoped for police state in which people who don’t convert to Catholicism are sent to jail.

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-round-up-fire-power/

... right?"

Profile Information

Member since: Sat Mar 20, 2004, 11:37 AM
Number of posts: 35,042
Latest Discussions»ck4829's Journal