An illustration of the snowflake model of community organizing, in which a single leader is replaced with interconnected leaders. (State Dept./Doug Thompson) – ‘Changing the World With Snowflakes’, Mark Trainer, 2/24/2016 — https://share.america.gov/changing-world-with-snowflakes/
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Obama’s Snowflakes
American Thinker
by Karin McQuillan
3/9/2017
Excerpt:
As President Trump focuses on jobs, Barack Obama’s oddness as a President is thrown into relief. How little we heard about jobs during Obama’s two terms — not even jobs in the inner city. We did hear a great deal about racism and sexism and homophobia on college campuses. On college campuses?
The media created the impression that Obama didn’t do much as president besides fundraise and play golf. He was actually both busy and effective in radicalizing his chosen identity groups.
It is not necessary for the hard-left to win over a majority of their targeted demographics. They only need to create a vocal, domineering minority that gets their hands on the levers of power and money. Nowhere do we see the success of this strategy more than on college campuses.
Jobs for radicals was Obama’s major jobs initiative: get progressives hired on campus, where they recruit thousands of young people, encouraging vulnerable kids to major in grievance studies, then use threats and funds from the federal government, and campus agitation to require more hiring of grievance professors and staff, more power for the hard left.
Obama’s Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department and the Department of Education’s own Office for Civil Rights accused our colleges of being hotbeds of racism and rape. In response, colleges staffed up their rape protection, diversity and bias offices – 150 full time professionals at U.C. Berkeley alone. These professional community organizers set to work creating a culture of antagonism and grievance on campus. They turned colleges into centers of progressive indoctrination and bullying.
“UC Berkeley’s Division of Equity and Inclusion has placed vertical banners across the main campus reminding students of the contemporary university’s paramount mission: assigning guilt and innocence within the ruthlessly competitive hierarchy of victimhood. Each banner shows a photo … beside a purported quotation from that student or bureaucrat. (snip) “I will think before I speak and act,” promises a white male student from the class of 2016. … it means: “I will mentally scan the University of California’s official list of microaggressions …”
The transformation of our campuses into Orwellian safe spaces for snowflakes did not happen spontaneously. There was a snow machine behind it all. Obama’s Department of Education sent out a “Dear Colleague” letter to every campus in America, threatening them with sexual discrimination lawsuits and loss of federal funds. Due process for those accused, protection for free speech or freedom of religion, were no longer allowed on campus – our Bill of Rights is redefined as abusive to victims.
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Protesters Square Off Again in Berkeley After Coulter Cancels Speech
Breitbart
by Joel B. Pollak
4/27/2017
Excerpt:
BERKELEY — Two groups of protesters squared off at Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park on Thursday afternoon, a day after conservative author and commentator Ann Coulter announced she would not be speaking on the nearby campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
One group, which gathered in the park itself, was protesting in support of Coulter — as well as President Donald Trump, and free speech in general. The other group, which gathered outside Berkeley High School across the street, was protesting against Trump and “fascism.”
Police kept the two groups separated as they shouted at each other across Allston Way.
“Illegal aliens have no rights! They’re not citizens,” shouted one of the pro-Coulter demonstrators. He was met with chants of “No ban, no wall, sanctuary for all!” and “Nazi scum!”
Coulter canceled her speech Wednesday, after the sponsoring groups — Young America’s Foundation, the Berkeley College Republicans, and BridgeUSA — withdrew their support. They did so after the university refused to provide security or facilities for the date and time chosen for Coulter to appear. UC Berkeley proposed alternate dates and times — when students and activists would be less likely to be present — and Coulter refused, citing free speech principles.
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Yale students on ‘symbolic hunger strike’ almost too sad to be funny…almost
American Thinker / Blog
by Ethel C. Fenig
4/29/2017
Excerpt:
The childish antics of those allegedly pursuing greater insight into political science, the history of art, geology, and literature at Yale University by symbolically refusing to eat until they are hungry makes one wonder if a Yale University child psychiatrist experienced in dealing with the “terrible twos” temper tantrums should be called in.
As Roger Kimball has discovered, these behavioral two-year-olds “already get free tuition, free health care, and a $30,000 stipend.” Their mommies and daddies couldn’t treat them better.
These adult children will be lucky to command that benefit package once they leave the comfortable Yale womb and venture forth into the real world – provided it is not another unreal, otherworldly university (h/t: Fausta Rodriguez Wertz).
While gazing at their faux scholarly navels, these symbolic fasters looked the other way – or even worse, agreed – while Yale University un-symbolically awarded their Gandhi Peace Prize to an avowed terrorist, murderer, and bigot, Omar Barghouti. No Berkeley-style riots and destruction against a man who preaches and endorses and even practices horror.
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Obama just made $400k, on a speech.
Meanwhile Bruce is still spinning his wheels, having geezer rage at a man he’ll never topple.
larryisbruce wrote:
Hey Bobby Boy, you fancy yourself a scholar of English, a teacher, so
I ask you is your quote above correct or have you errored again? Another sock puppet identified “larryisbruce”. Ah no, that is also an error on your part. What is not an error is that Donald Young and Larry Young are in fact two of your many sock puppets that you have used in a failed effort to spoof me. Swallow hard little fellow, as hard as you try you will never be clever enough to get over on me. I own you, I manipulate you at will, you always take the bait. Keep posting here little dude, I appreciate the LOL you provide.
@ Larry Bland:
That’s not me. But you will think everyone is me. That is how I win. Plus the admins here erase truth.