I didnt mean to say you think those, I was just using them as example as ways the message gets twisted. A lot of what you are using are extreme or misrepresented examples though.
1) are you sure its all over college campuses? When was the last time you spent time on one? My wife is graduating with her BA this year, so I feel pretty plugged into that scene.
2) Are you sure about the tech industry? They are trying to diversify their workforce but for good reason, tech jobs are dominated by Asians, Indians, Caucasians who are all men. Its important to involve other sexes and races to the party and the CEO's of those industries made a conscious effort to be leaders in that area, no one told them to do this. The google letter guy made some good points, but he also made some bad ones and he did it in a public forum, not recommend for anyone who wants to keep their job. Now if he could play basketball he would have the option to just "shut up and play ball"
3) The Chinese dress thing is laughable. I dont know one person who is seriously upset over this. More faux rage to make fun of the left over.
4) Bret Weinstein thing? First I heard about it. Honestly sounds like a story from Breitbart or the conservative daily news.
The labeling everyone on the right as a racist does bother me also though. It just dilutes the term for when its needed. Frog meme's do now carry racial overtones though, there might be reasons why people who use them are not using them for racist reason, but if I see them used my first thought is "oh shit this is probably going to be racist." Thats just how it is now, blame the fuckers who adopted it.
1. From everything I have seen and heard, yes. My girlfriend is going to school. She is doing a class for mythology and the professor said if she went to this sexual assault lecture type thing on campus that she would get "big extra credit". That makes no sense. The class is mythology, why on earth would she get extra credit for going to this event that has nothing to do with mythology? I can't be sure it's on EVERY college campus but I would say a lot of them teach these sorts of ideas.
2. I don't think companies should be diverse just for the sake of being diverse. I think the position of these jobs should go to people who are qualified no matter what color or gender. The fact they are trying to be diverse just screws over people who are actually qualified.
3. I can show you.
179 thousand likes for what that guy said. over 40k retweets. That is 179k people who think that this girl wearing a chinese dress to prom isn't okay because she is white.
4. I will show you more. This was probably a year ago. Bret Weinstein considers himself a progressive and in my opinion is an actual progressive.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...ftist-intolerance-is-killing-higher-education
"In April, the event that nominally brought Evergreen to national attention arrived. Historically on campus, a day in April has been chosen as a “Day of Absence,” on which some people of color chose to absent themselves from campus to demonstrate their important roles at the college. This year, the organizers decided that the process should be reversed, and white people were “asked” to leave the campus for the day. When Bret respectfully challenged the invitation to absent himself over email, the blowback from faculty and staff was telling. One wrote, “I love imagining students, staff and colleagues of color having the campus to themselves to do their work.” Another commented, “By switching the Day of Absence programming, we are physically moving our bodies so that people of color can be centered for ONE DAY on campus.” Yet another wrote: “I feel strongly about honoring the call for white-identified people to absent themselves from campus.” The interim provost had already sent an email saying “This expanded programming and call for even broader participation in both Day of Presence and Day of Absence also mean faculty will need to make adjustments to teaching and associated classroom scheduling.” Many faculty committed long in advance to require students to participate.
If this is an ask, we don’t want to see a tell.
Weeks later, on the morning of May 23, an unruly group of students disrupted Bret’s class, yelled and chanted at him, barred the police from entering the scene, and then went to hold court with the college administration. Many of the protesters did not even know what they had been asked to come protest. Students acted badly, and then stupidly, taking video and posting it for the whole world to see. But it was not the students who were the driving force behind this disruption. They were, rather, empowered and encouraged by bad decisions by the administration, and by the faux-equity cabal, represented by a minority of faculty and staff.
Later that afternoon, hundreds of people, mostly students, held a forum in a fourth floor room. The entry, a long hallway, was entirely controlled by protesters who had been emboldened by the successes of their disruptions earlier in the day. The college administration had promised that it would “train” faculty, and the campus police chief had been ordered to attend the forum unarmed, an important symbolic victory for a movement that advocates an end to police presence on campus with the acronym ACAB (All Cops Are Bastards). Bret attended, as did many of his students. Two of his students, neither of them white, attempted to defend him to the angry crowd. They were shouted down. Not following the faux-equity party line meant that you would be informed that you were wrong, that you were a traitor, and that you needed to change.
The meeting was decidedly threatening and unsafe. While it was going on, some of Bret’s students texted him from other points in the room to tell him that protesters were hiding mace, and discussing not letting him leave. He texted Heather, in case he found himself a hostage: “I am told I will not be allowed to leave.” “Not sure what to do.”
At that moment, Heather was holding our two sons close to her at home. By coincidence, it was also the moment when a giant maple in our backyard cracked in half, and fell, crashing into another tree and landing suspended, where it would hang for months. The silence that followed was deafening. It seemed that our world was shifting. The protesters might detain Bret, the police chief had been disarmed, and nobody with authority was stepping up.
These protests at Evergreen were not like protests many readers will remember from their own college days. Nor were they like the ones we had participated in ourselves. Both of us protested as college students before the first Gulf War, and again after the bailouts that followed the 2008 financial collapse with the Occupy movement. It was heady stuff, but it never approached violence. And, agree with us or not, we were objecting to policy, not claims of bias that are immune to scrutiny. This was differ
The protesters did let Bret leave, but they assigned “handlers” to him and his students. And although Bret was able to have a productive, if tense, dialogue with protesters in small groups, the leaders inevitably intervened to stop such off-script activity.
By the next day, any gains were lost. Protesters stormed the last faculty meeting of the year, where newly emeritus faculty members were being lauded. They took over the meeting, stole a celebratory retirement cake, and said things like “Didn’t you educate us on how to do shit like this?”
The radicals blockaded the library, trapping employees and students inside, frightening several. One faculty member who had participated with the students in shutting down the faculty meeting held court outside the library, telling two faculty colleagues that “you are now those motherfuckers that we’re pushing against.” She told them to “go inside and listen to the students … or take your ass home … Two options: Go inside, go home.”
The protesters subjugated and humiliated everyone who did not fall into line. When they ordered the college president to stop gesticulating with his hands, on account of the presumably aggressive nature of his hand gestures, he promptly did so. When they insisted that he have an escort to use the bathroom, he acquiesced. They hurled obscenities and insults at him and others.
That evening, the same faculty member who had been issuing peremptory commands outside the library wrote to the campus community to say how proud she was of the protesters, and to reinforce an earlier thought from one of the radicals. “They are doing exactly what we've taught them today,” she wrote. What do you suppose the response to this email was? Horror, shock, quiet distaste? In some circles, yes, but the only people who responded publicly wrote to thank her."
I find it funny your assumption is these stories were just false or I had grabbed them from some conservative site. Nope. All real. All happened. I have examples for days, these aren't just baseless statements of mine. I can keep going if you want
