{"id":8023,"date":"2017-04-28T10:57:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T14:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=8023"},"modified":"2017-04-28T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:00:44","slug":"obamas-snowflakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/obamas-snowflakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Snowflakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Changing-the-World-with-Snowflakes-Mark-Trainer-2-24-2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Changing-the-World-with-Snowflakes-Mark-Trainer-2-24-2016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"956\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Changing-the-World-with-Snowflakes-Mark-Trainer-2-24-2016.jpg 956w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Changing-the-World-with-Snowflakes-Mark-Trainer-2-24-2016-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Changing-the-World-with-Snowflakes-Mark-Trainer-2-24-2016-768x823.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 956px) 100vw, 956px\" \/><\/a>An illustration of the snowflake model of community organizing, in which a single leader is replaced with interconnected leaders. (State Dept.\/Doug Thompson) &#8211; <em><strong>&#8216;Changing the World With Snowflakes&#8217;<\/strong><\/em>, Mark Trainer, 2\/24\/2016 &#8212;<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/share.america.gov\/changing-world-with-snowflakes\/\">https:\/\/share.america.gov\/changing-world-with-snowflakes\/<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong>=========================<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Obama&#8217;s Snowflakes<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>American Thinker<\/strong><br \/>\nby Karin McQuillan<br \/>\n3\/9\/2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>As President Trump focuses on jobs, Barack Obama\u2019s oddness as a President is thrown into relief.\u00a0 How little we heard about jobs during Obama\u2019s two terms &#8212; not even jobs in the inner city.\u00a0 We did hear a great deal about racism and sexism and homophobia on college campuses.\u00a0 On college campuses?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The media created the impression that Obama didn\u2019t do much as president besides fundraise and play golf.\u00a0 He was actually both busy and effective in radicalizing his chosen identity groups.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It is not necessary for the hard-left to win over a majority of their targeted demographics.\u00a0 They only need to create a vocal, domineering minority that gets their hands on the levers of power and money.\u00a0 Nowhere do we see the success of this strategy more than on college campuses.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jobs for radicals was Obama\u2019s major jobs initiative:\u00a0 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Obama\u2019s Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department and the Department of Education\u2019s own Office for Civil Rights accused our colleges of being hotbeds of racism and <a href=\"https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/blog\/2016\/02\/17\/nominate-its-us-white-house-champion-change\">rape<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 In response, colleges staffed up their rape protection, diversity and bias offices \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-macdonald-berkeley-victimology-20170207-story.html\">150<\/a> full time professionals at U.C. Berkeley alone.\u00a0 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><a>&#8220;UC Berkeley\u2019s<\/a> Division of Equity and Inclusion has placed vertical banners across the main campus reminding students of the contemporary university\u2019s paramount mission: assigning guilt and innocence within the ruthlessly competitive hierarchy of victimhood. Each banner shows a photo \u2026 beside a purported quotation from that student or bureaucrat.\u00a0 (snip) \u201cI will think before I speak and act,\u201d promises a white male student from the class of 2016. \u2026 it means: \u201cI will mentally scan the University of California\u2019s official list of microaggressions \u2026&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The transformation of our campuses into Orwellian safe spaces for snowflakes did not happen spontaneously.\u00a0 There was a snow machine behind it all.\u00a0 Obama\u2019s Department of Education sent out a \u201cDear Colleague\u201d letter to every campus in America,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2015\/06\/how-to-end-the-title-nein-fascism-in-five-minutes.php\">threatening<\/a> them with sexual discrimination <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/how-title-ix-became-a-political-weapon-1433715320?KEYWORDS=Gavora\">lawsuits<\/a> and loss of federal funds.\u00a0 Due process for those accused, protection for free speech or freedom of religion, were no longer allowed on campus \u2013 our Bill of Rights is redefined as abusive to victims.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>View the complete article including links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2017\/03\/obamas_snowflakes.html\">http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2017\/03\/obamas_snowflakes.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An illustration of the snowflake model of community organizing, in which a single leader is replaced with interconnected leaders. (State Dept.\/Doug Thompson) &#8211; &#8216;Changing the World With Snowflakes&#8217;, Mark Trainer, 2\/24\/2016 &#8212; https:\/\/share.america.gov\/changing-world-with-snowflakes\/ ========================= Obama&#8217;s Snowflakes American Thinker by Karin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/obamas-snowflakes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8023"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8027,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023\/revisions\/8027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}