Yale fail: Ivy leaguers sign 'petition' to repeal First Amendment.
Have we really reached this level of candy asses where they want 'safe spaces' for their tender asses, but they don't understand that when they want to crash an event at a private venue to protest, and get tossed out, they are guilty of exactly what they are bitching about?
Isn't the 1st the whole reason why they were able to make a petition?
im confused
At 12/23/15 12:24 PM, Korriken wrote: Not nonsensical bullshit
Another thing that really busts my brains is that a small group of people signing a petition might possibly be taken into consideration.
This is like a fraction of a fraction of the people of America!
They ain't even the good Americans either.
It can't happen right?
At 12/23/15 05:29 PM, mysticvortex13 wrote:
the only thing necessary for stupidity to triumph is for intelligent people to do nothing.
But the intelligent people are doing something.
They're signing a petition.
god this is wrong
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Consider this, any amendments to the constitution must be passed by the House, passed by the Senate, signed by the President, and ALSO must be ratified by the states. This would not stand up in the Supreme Court (if it does welcome to the United States Socialist Republic of America).
You haven't seen me yet.
As much as I would say that this comes from Fox News who are known for their tabloid-like sensationalism against anything on the left, this is exactly the kind of news that would make me want to facepalm with both hands. You don't repeal the First Amendment just because a few bad apples happen to use "microagressions" or "trigger words" which as far as I am concerned, is nothing more than a red herring. What they need to realize is that they either need to acknowledge the fact that either everyone has the right to say what they want regardless of context or no one does, and the latter has been used by fascists and despots to maintain power... oops.
I think we need to be cognizant of the fact that this is a small minority of ignorant folks who are promoting this, and everyone with a degree of common sense should ignore this. That said, we seem to unintentionally give the minority a megaphone and basically allows them to abuse it, and it's high time that we start taking it away and just start ignoring them, because what they're saying is egregiously dumb at best, and screwing over everyone else at worst.
Just stop worrying, and love the bomb.
Okay, I have nothing but my intuition going for me here, but this video seems to be hoax material. The way it is edited leaves me open to the strong possibility that this guy's "results" are intentionally deceiving.
It would be really easy to do. Just go up to people asking them to sign a petition that supports a noble cause, film their reactions, then go up to people asking them to repeal the first amendment while cutting off their reactions. I don't believe this guy, and I think he's trying to exploit a perceived issue for profit. It's a common trick in a lot of "man on the street" videos. A lot of times it's intended for comedic effect, but then you get cases like this.
Horowitz would not disclose whether he got the people in the film’s permission to include them in his video. “I’d rather not get inside baseball on how we produce this stuff,” he said.
Pfft. I can't watch your videos. Silly Fox news. (No, the reason I can't watch them isn't because I refuse to watch them, but because they literally won't play at all for me -- the ad plays and then a perpetual black screen. Refreshing produces identical results.) Good website design, Fox news. Good website design. *winks*
So because I can't watch the videos and because there was some contention as to whether the videos even show Yale students, and, if they are Yale students, if they are fairly representative of Yale students and, if they are fairly representative, if the signed petition indeed calls for repeal of the 1st amendment, I will answer with a two-pronged approach.
If the videos do not show Yale students or if they are excessively cherry-picked or if the petition was for something completely different from repealing the 1st amendment --
Then shame on Fox news for bad journalism. Bad journalism coming from Fox news really wouldn't surprise me.
If the videos do show Yale students, if these are representative of the average Yale students, and if what they signed indeed was asking for repeal of the 1st amendment --
Then it's because they didn't try this little experiment at Princeton. I doubt it would work at Princeton. Princeton > Yale
I would imagine these students are being taught these things by their teachers, at least in things like gender-studies and the other social sciences.
At 12/23/15 02:00 AM, MuramasasEdge wrote: Isn't the 1st the whole reason why they were able to make a petition?
im confused
Yes, that is why it is a fail.
Blah. Irony is wasted on the stupid, I guess hundreds of thousands of dollars still can't buy common sense.
To paraphrase the great BasedMilo: The "Safe Spaces" these college kids are looking for is actually the western democracy they live in, which protects their rights to say a bunch of stupid bullshit and make calls to action.
At 1/9/16 07:06 PM, Ass-Crumb wrote: To paraphrase the great BasedMilo: The "Safe Spaces" these college kids are looking for is actually the western democracy they live in, which protects their rights to say a bunch of stupid bullshit and make calls to action.
This is a stupid argument. the "well, you have more freedom than Iran here, so stop asking for better!" argument. Just because you have it good doesn't mean you cannot or should not strive for better. It's a piss poor attempt to get people to "know their place" and stop asking for something you don't like.
At 12/23/15 12:24 PM, Korriken wrote: That's the irony behind it.
It's the useful idiots like these whose hubris makes the rise of tyranny possible.
I agree that it is ironic, but leading to the rise of tyranny? I think you are over stating the situation.
At 1/16/16 06:23 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: I agree that it is ironic, but leading to the rise of tyranny? I think you are over stating the situation.
Not at all. People worry about the government coming and "taking" your freedom, but in reality I think most people in government (any Western style government) are smart enough to know if they want to restrict freedom and accrue more power the better thing to do is wait, and take advantage of situations where people are ASKING that they be relieved of the protection of those freedoms. Repealing the First Amendment by heavy handed law? Nah, that won't fly. But repealing it because that's what popular demand wants? Sure, that's a good one....then when it's gone we can crack down on anything it stopped us from cracking down on at will. We've come perilously close to such things in just this country (Alien and Sedition Acts).
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The significance is that these spolied, privileged Ivy League students are going to be our future CEOs and political leaders. After they inherit it from mommy and daddy.
This demographic is mostly hard left which means pretty much everything they say and do is going to be infuriating to anyone with a modicum of sense.
This is no surprise and they will simply be laughed at.
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