Post: #1

I prefer not to reference partisan websites...but they're the only ones publicizing the incident at the moment.

University Might Expel Student Who Criticized Black Lives Matter

Quote:Administrators at Purdue University Northwest have demanded a meeting with a student who made controversial statements on social media—and even threatened to expel him

He's not sure of the exact statements in question, but neither of the possibilities he suspects might have gotten him in trouble advocates violence or would pass a legal test for libel. One of them is "Black Lives Matter is trash because they do not really care about black lives. They simply care about making money and disrupting events for dead people." That one was deleted by FB staff and his account was put on a month's suspension. The other one was using Milo Yannopoulos'es #DangerousFaggot hashtag.

Quote:Purdue University Northwest is a public university: administrators don't get to punish students for speaking their minds, even if they really don't like what the students have to say.

Unfortunately apparently they do. This is not an isolated incident, and similar incidents have been going on for years.

The solution is to find alternatives to the increasingly sovietesque college and university credentialing racket. Ask yourself why you need a credential that no longer guarantees a job, and gets a lot of people deep into debt. According to a study sponsored by Goldman-Sachs, only certain majors in top-ranked universities are cost-effective. But to get into one of those programs, you would have to profile correctly...and that's not a entirely a matter of personal talent or merit.

Post: #2

What are they going to do if everyone quits college?

Post: #3

(07-13-2016 10:15 PM)puckerman Wrote:  What are they going to do if everyone quits college?

Hopefully, go bankrupt. Online training doesn't involve all the useless overhead. And no more profiling of prospective students; you get in if you can afford the reasonably-priced fee.

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When the University of Missouri started harassing its students into groupthink by different means, it suffered a massive wave of backlash and bad publicity. The admission rates plummeted and I don't think they've recovered.

Let's hope Purdue ends up on the receiving end of a lot of bad media too.

As always, what troubles me about this isn't the event pe se, but the way the media is handling it. Years ago, it wouldn't have taken a fringe publication to break this story. An administration censoring a student would have been a big issue in every paper -- whether the editors agreed with what the student had to say or not.

Now mainstream newspapers are just part of the globalist mindset and want to keep the power structure intact.