Michael Higgins: Locking Tamara Lich up for 7 years would be shameful retribution - "It is to be hoped that the judge in the case of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, key organizers of the notorious Freedom Convoy, has more common sense and respect for justice than the prosecution, which seems intent on nothing more than revenge and retribution. Whatever one’s view of the Freedom Convoy and its actions during a three-week period in early 2022, a prison sentence of seven years for Lich and eight years for Barber would throw the administration of justice into disrepute. That the Crown is asking for these sentences is shameful and ignores some of the other issues in this country that is making Canadians doubt that the legal system is fair, balanced, impartial and beyond reproach. Most of the prosecution case has been demolished. Lich was facing six charges and Barber seven for a variety of accusations including mischief, intimidation, counselling others to break the law, obstructing police and counselling others to obstruct police. At the end of a 45-day trial the organizers of the convoy were both found guilty of mischief and Barber was also found guilty of counselling others to disobey a judge’s order to stop honking horns. They were found not guilty of the majority of the charges and yet the Crown demands a penalty that is entirely unjustified... Their fate will be decided three years and five months after they were first arrested. An old adage says justice delayed is justice denied. But it is interesting to note that in her April 3 judgment finding the pair guilty, the judge said she accepted that Lich and Barber came to Ottawa “with the noblest of intentions to simply protest their wish for the government and Prime Minister (at the time) Trudeau to end COVID mandate.” Further, “The Crown agrees that the accused came to Ottawa to advance a noble cause and had the right to protest against COVID mandates, but argues they crossed the line with the means used to achieve their ends.”... the Freedom Convoy was not violent. The line that Lich and Barber crossed is one written in sand, shifting, defined only after the fact by the courts and only after a contest between competing rights... Since October 7, 2023, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and other Canadian cities, have seen constant anti-Israel protests (along with demonstrations in support of the terror group Hamas) that have blocked streets, traffic, led to emergency vehicles being diverted, and caused much annoyance, nuisance, fear and alarm to citizens. Yet they are continuing and more are planned. Who decides that the rights of citizens have been impacted to such an extent that the protests are unlawful? The protesters won’t do it. As is the case with protests, they push boundaries until they cross lines they don’t see. As for the citizens of Toronto, Montreal, et al, they aren’t being listened to. Regularly blocking intersections and causing distress to citizens in downtown Toronto for 21 months doesn’t appear to be a crime. And yet honking horns and, yes, causing annoyance to the citizens of Ottawa for three weeks, is deemed worthy by the Crown of sending people to jail for seven and eight years."
"Please, show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful": You only get to be disruptive if it's a protest the left approves of.
Seven years for mischief, one day for terrorism — make it make sense - "Funnily enough, just last week, another notable convicted criminal recently got a sentence of seven years. His name is Jamal Joshua Malik Wheeler, whose criminal record in July 2023 included three attacks on total strangers on Edmonton’s public transit system. He mugged one transit rider using an axe, which got him a 14-month sentence. He punched another, sending him onto the LRT tracks. He sprayed three others with bear spray. He was out on bail, conditions of which included staying away from public-transit property, when he fatally stabbed 52-year-old father of six Rukinisha Nkundabatware, a total stranger. Originally charged with second-degree murder, Wheeler was allowed to plead guilty to manslaughter. And yes, his sentence was seven years — the ridiculously low end of the Crown’s ask. And then on Monday, the Crown, defence and judge in a Quebec courtroom coughed up an absolute hall-of-fame sentence. In October 2014, Oumaima Chouay admits, she decamped for Turkey and then Syria, and signed up with the nice folks at ISIL. She married a fellow traveller, had two kids, and in 2017 was captured and imprisoned by Syrian Democratic Forces. Canada brought her home in 2022. Chouay pleaded guilty to participating in a terrorist group’s activities, which carries a sentence of up to 10 years. Her sentence, no word of a lie: One day, plus three years of probation... one argument for throwing the book at Lich and Barber is to redress public outrage over the Ottawa occupation. I dare say there’s a fair degree of public outrage in Canada over citizens taking up arms with ISIL and repeat offenders reoffending yet again while out on bail — sometimes with lethal consequences. Apparently that’s not worthy of redress."
Challenging the regime is the truly shocking crime. Murder is nothing in comparison (unless you murder left wing politicians)
The crimes that could get you less jail time than a Freedom Convoyer - "Sexually assaulting a baby
Using a car filled with guns to ram into Justin Trudeau’s house
Killing multiple innocent people via drunk driving
Stabbing a man to death because he told you to stop abusing your girlfriend
Being a police officer who stalks and sexually harasses crime victims
Amassing enough child pornography to fill a video store
Torturing a toddler to death
Shooting at police
Intentionally ramming a car loaded with children and pregnant women
Beating a fellow homeless shelter resident to death
Raping a minor and bragging about it online"
Geoff Russ: Macdonald's critics don't just hate our first PM. They hate Canada - "Canadians are a far more patriotic people than they typically get credit for. Unfortunately, their leaders are often complacent and meek when it comes to defending national identity with any measure of backbone or pride. The exception is during elections, when both Liberals and Conservatives bang the patriot drum for votes. With the April election far in the rearview mirror, there is fresh space for anti-Canadian organizers to resume their campaign of undermining national pride from within. Who makes up this faction? Among them are radical decolonization groups, academic zealots, professional activists and elected politicians who are fellow travellers to the cause. What unites them is a fierce antipathy for Canada and Canadians. The moratorium on honours for Macdonald is the latest victory in their campaign to demoralize and unmoor the population from their history, and bludgeon them into believing they are no more than party to an evil, artificial project. According to the anti-Canadians, for this is the best way to collectively describe them, Canada is not a legitimate country. It is “ stolen land ,” or “ so-called Canada ”. A pan-Canadian identity is usually denied. At best, it is described as the “ settler imaginary, ” as if to identify as a Canadian is an exercise in self-gaslighting. Within this worldview, the settler and the colonizer will always be considered a sort of invasive species that is a natural antagonist to the Indigenous people... In Australia, a country with whom Canada shares common heritage, monuments to figures like James Cook have been hacked down, and the remains vandalized with the slogan “the colony will fall” in spray paint. In many cases, the national holiday of “Australia Day” has been cancelled, with calls to rename it “Invasion Day.” Like Canada, Australia is increasingly portrayed as a primordially evil settler state that is irredeemable until a sort of bureaucratic cultural revolution takes place. Last year, a school field trip in Toronto resulted in students of “ colonizer ” ethnicity being asked to wear blue to set them apart from their classmates. It was an inappropriate, if not dehumanizing, decision by the school staff, who should have lost their jobs over it. That is all part of the process of demoralization and alienation. This racial division of society is a branch from the same tree that sprouted “Kill the Boer” in South Africa... That sort of extreme discourse has not been broached in Canada, and people should not expect mass violence anytime soon. However, the underlying assumptions about the value of “colonizers” hardly differ from Malema’s. Take the reaction from the hard-left to the massacre of Israeli citizens by Hamas on October 7, 2023. Former Ontario NDP MPP Sarah Jama’s first reaction was to issue a statement accusing Israel of apartheid and engaging in “settler colonialism.” Jama made sure to mention that she, too, was “a politician who is participating in this settler colonial system.” The inability to wait until the victims’ blood was dry before equivocating was telling. Others, such as a lecturer at Langara College in Vancouver, celebrated the “ amazing, brilliant offensive ” as an act of liberation, and have been unapologetic about doing so to this day. “Kill the Boer” is not an isolated phenomenon, it is part and parcel of the global decolonial movement. Macdonald is being wiped from the public eye for two reasons. The first is that he was once commemorated with more monuments in Canada than any other prime minister, and was thus an easy target. Secondly, his efforts created the country that so many people despise. It is not so much Macdonald whom they seek to dishonour as it is Canada itself. A debate in the liberal tradition about erasing history is of no use here, for they have no willingness to listen. For our bureaucrats to try to appease them is nothing short of disgraceful."
Chris Selley: Is Sir John A. Macdonald being set up for a fall? - " Montreal police never found the gang that beheaded Macdonald’s statue in Place du Canada in 2020; instead, the city just decided not to reinstall it, since it was constantly getting vandalized. Problem solved! Why waste police time over some old dead bronze guy? In 2021, something calling itself an Indigenous Unity Rally hauled down the statue of Macdonald in Gore Park in Hamilton, Ont. City police investigated in earnest, by the sounds of it, and laid charges against a 56-year-old suspect. Then, prosecutors stayed the charges. In 2020, Toronto Police charged three people alleging they defaced statues of both Macdonald and Egerton Ryerson, the public-education pioneer in Upper Canada whose legacy has been dragged through a pigsty by morons. Those charges were all dropped. Indeed, as we have seen since the Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israel, Crown prosecutors seem distinctly uninterested in prosecuting overzealous protest. It’s not to their credit, but it’s perhaps understandable why other cities, including Victoria, Kingston, Ont.and (of all places) Charlottetown — where Macdonald, George-Étienne Cartier and some other nation-building heavyweights gathered in 1864 to talk Confederation — just removed their statues pre-emptively. Who needs the headache?"
Teachers ranting on Reddit isn't proof of an Andrew Tate crisis in schools - "You may have seen a study making the rounds in recent days decrying the corrupting grasp of Andrew Tate on today’s male youth, titled “‘Trying to talk white male teenagers off the alt-right ledge’ and other impacts of masculinist influencers on teachers.” It gives the impression that roving junior Vikings have taken over classrooms, backing their female counterparts into a corner as they try to learn. It’s a distinctly racial problem and a distinctly male problem, one that teachers are fighting to no avail... this study about his supposed impact on classrooms sits on shaky research foundations and is notable not for its findings, but for its contribution to the growing body of media that vilifies boys. The researchers — one Master’s student of social justice out of the University of Toronto, and one professor of “recreation and leisure studies” out of Dalhousie — pulled all posts and comments from Reddit’s r/Teachers board between June 1, 2022 and January 31, 2023, for a total of 2,364 snippets of content. The authors carefully sidestep any questions about quantity, leaving out a by-the-numbers breakdown about the number of posts complaining about “discourses of misogyny championed by Andrew Tate.” They do, however, state that Reddit posts about these issues can be sorted into three themes: one, the impact on teachers; two, the impact on the classroom; and three, proposed solutions. Teachers, found the researchers, struggled with the gender dynamics of a misogyny-steeped classroom. Thirteen-year-old boys weren’t respecting their 24-year-old woman teachers, and in one case, a user reported that a group of troublemakers told the vice-principal that they would only behave in a class taught by a man. Another user complaint, summarized by AI, read as follows: “Seemingly, ninety percent of my work is trying to talk white teenage boys off the alt-right ledge.” The authors go on to assert that exposure to Andrew Tate’s rhetoric can impact the safety of a classroom and seed misogyny... As for solutions, some teachers noted that girls in some classrooms will ridicule any boys who bring up Tate, and suggested letting the children police themselves. Other teachers, summarized the researchers, described “violence” — but the researchers never reproduced any accounts of those. Four paragraphs of discussion on misogyny, inceldom and Tate lament male supremacism and the “machine of ‘naturalized’ male power.” Overall, it looks grim. But what it lacks is a sense of context. The unverified accounts of classroom sexism were terrible, yes — something that no teacher or female pupil should have to go through. But they weren’t quantified; and even if they were, a mere sample from Reddit wouldn’t be statistically representative of the classroom experience. Self-reported tales of woe are more likely to be told in such spaces, as with any public message board since Roman times. We also have to assume there are false positives: cases when oversensitive teachers take grave offence to ironic humour typical of teens. Reddit discussions can be useful and informative, particularly in gauging a community’s temperature — and for that reason, I cite them in columns from time to time — but they can’t be the sole basis for academically gauging the prevalence of a problem. So, is Tate-fuelled violence (by white boys in particular) really a problem in Canada? It’s an objective fact that violence in school is a growing problem, with many major school boards reporting a statistical rise in incidents compared to before the pandemic. Teachers report having to deal with “complex needs” without adequate supports; neglectful administrators; and, as a result, the normalization of violence. Compounding these problems are the minority of parent activists who campaign to keep police officers — one source of protection — out of the schools that need them most. But these reports lack demographic information, and they don’t include motive. The information that is out there throws the Reddit vignette into question: in the United Kingdom, one survey found that Tate was most likely to be viewed positively by Black youth aged 16 to 25 (41 per cent of whom approved of the man); and was also rated positively by 31 per cent of Asian (including South Asian) youth. Only 15 per cent of their white male counterparts felt the same — a group that, at the same time, has become the face of misogynistic violence through popular culture. Netflix’s Adolescence, anyone?"
Selection bias is only a problem and it's only bots when alleging that pushes the left wing agenda
Bad news for superintendent who had job offer rescinded for using word 'ladies' in email - "The Massachusetts school administrator who had a $151,000 job offer rescinded after using the word 'ladies' to his woke colleagues has just suffered another blow after a judge threw out his lawsuit. Vito J. Perrone was set to to become superintendent of Easthampton Public Schools in Springfield, about 100 miles west of Boston, in March 2023. But he had his job offer yanked when his new bosses took offense to his email greeting using the word 'ladies.'... The greeting received immediate backlash from the hyper-woke school committee, which claimed it was a 'microaggression' and voted 5-1 to rescind the offer... According to Perrone, Kwiecinski said that using 'ladies' was a microaggression and 'the fact that he didn't know that as an educator was a problem.' 'I was shocked,' he said. 'I grew up in a time when 'ladies' and 'gentlemen' was a sign of respect. I didn't intend to insult anyone.'"
The Observer apologises for ‘racist’ cartoon of Zarah Sultana - "The Observer has apologised and taken down a cartoon portraying Zarah Sultana after the former Labour MP accused the publication of racism. The newspaper’s cartoon of the week depicted Ms Sultana on the front of a box of raisins in the style of the brand Sun-Maid as part of a mock invite to a Jeremy Corbyn party following news that the two were forming their own political party. Ms Sultana said of the caricature: “Brownfacing a box of raisins and mocking my surname. Exactly what you’d expect from a right-wing hack who is the daughter of an aristocrat and ex-Tory MP” in reference to cartoonist Saffron Swire, daughter of Sir Hugo Swire. She later called the cartoon “racist trash” in a separate post."
Tony Blair - "His name has been deliberately mis-spelt 'Tony Bliar' (sometimes 'B. Liar') or 'Tory Blur' by critics of his actions and his policies (particularly his stance on Iraq). The Economist on 5 June 2003 devoted its front cover to a photograph of Blair and the headline, "Bliar?"."
Anti-racism and equality mean you're only allowed to make fun of white people, like "Jeremy Cunt", or "minorities" when they oppose the left wing agenda
Chris Cuomo slams AOC as ‘symbol of the demise of the Democratic Party’ - "The Chris Cuomo Project host pointed out that “woke” Ocasio-Cortez is about “weighing the needs and wants of the few over the many” and backing her and candidates like her will ultimately lead the downfall of the Dems... “I think you’re making a mistake paying attention to AOC and this new deference to radical left and radical fundamentalist and radical Islamist sympathies. I think it’s a huge f***–g mistake,” Cuomo declared. He added that throwing support Ocasio-Cortez’s way would only lead to backlash like they’ve never experienced before. “If you [Democrats] think trans sports got you in a pickle, you’re about to be in a whole bucket of brine,” Cuomo added."
World Series champion blasts AOC over response to Colorado attack - "Kevin Youkilis, who earned the nickname “The Greek God of Walks,” during his 10-year MLB career, called out the representative from New York for “virtue signaling” with her social media post after the alleged antisemitic hate crime. More than a dozen people were injured in a firebomb attack on Sunday in Boulder, with the horrific incident being treated by the FBI as a hate crime after suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman told police that he tried to kill demonstrators demanding the release of Hamas’ Israeli hostages, according to an FBI affidavit... “Jews are targeted with violence and it’s the same virtue signal post time and time again,” he wrote on X. “What have you done to confront those calling for intifadas in NYC? Until you create a plan of action, your repeated virtue signaling after the violence occurs holds no weight.”"
AOC mocked for ‘phony’ accent during spirited DNC speech - "The congresswoman was called out for debuting a new accent, which only seemed to get more bizarre the louder the room got... “AOC speech was cringe. The fake accent was way too much for me. Back snapped. I called it. DNC is cringe as all get out.”... The congresswoman, who hails from the Bronx and represents parts of it and Queens, has been accused of putting on fake accents in the past. In 2019, she was slammed after video surfaced of her speaking with what sounded like a Southern accent while addressing Al Sharpton’s National Action Network conference."
AOC gets death threats and has HQ vandalized by anti-Israel supporters - "Ocasio-Cortez’s Bronx office was smeared in red paint Sunday and activists placed a placard on the building that read: “AOC FUNDS GENOCIDE IN GAZA,” her campaign office said... The vandalism came days after Ocasio-Cortez voted against an amendment put forward by Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Friday that would have stripped $500 million in funding for Israel’s missile defense systems. Ocasio-Cortez has been a consistent voice against Israel’s military offensive in Gaza and criticized Greene’s amendment for doing “nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of U.S. munitions” in the war-torn region. “What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities while allowing the actual bombs killing Palestinians to continue,” Ocasio-Cortez added. The Democratic Socialists of America condemned the congresswoman’s vote in a statement released Friday. “The fact that Representative Ocasio-Cortez acknowledges that Israel is carrying out this genocide makes her support for military aid all the more disappointing and incongruous,” the group said. “We urge the representative to continue voting against the Iron Dome, whether it is part of a larger defense spending bill or as a stand-alone bill.” Democratic strategist Waleed Shahid was among those who came to Ocasio-Cortez’s defense. “She has one of the strongest pro-Palestinian voting records in Congress. It’s fair to debate strategy and disagreement over specific choices–but vandalizing her office and saying @AOC “funds genocide” isn’t just wrong,” Shahid wrote in a post on X. “It’s reckless, dishonest, misleading, and deeply unserious.”"
Riding the left wing tiger is a fool's errand, because you're always in danger of being eaten, because the left wing wishlist is endless and their demands keep escalating
Of course, the terrorism supporters just want Israelis to die
A city flag ban takes down Pride banners, roiling Hamtramck, Mich. - The Washington Post - "This city of 28,000 was once so Polish it was dubbed “Little Warsaw.” But in recent decades, an influx of immigrants gave Hamtramck a new character. Bengali and Arabic joined English on signs at City Hall. Yemeni and Bangladeshi mosques, restaurants and shops proliferated. And last year, a Muslim who emigrated from Yemen as a teenager became mayor — the city’s first leader in nearly a century with no Polish roots — alongside what is believed to be the nation’s only all-Muslim city council. Many residents in this tiny enclave just north of downtown Detroit saw these changes as a sign of Hamtramck’s progressiveness. The Muslim community that had previously experienced discrimination, including voter intimidation and resistance to mosques’ public call to prayer, had finally taken its seats at the table. Yet the ethnic, cultural and religious diversity that made Hamtramck something of a model is being put severely to the test. In June, after divisive debate, the six-member council blocked the display of Pride flags on city property — action that has angered allies and members of the LGBTQ+ community, who say that the support they provided the immigrant groups has been reciprocated with betrayal. “We welcomed you,” former council member Catrina Stackpoole, a retired social worker who identifies as gay, recalls telling the council this summer. “We created nonprofits to help feed, clothe, find housing. We did everything we could to make your transition here easier, and this is how you repay us, by stabbing us in the back?” The council’s unanimous vote in the middle of Pride Month seemed intentional to Stackpoole and others, though the resolution banned not only the rainbow flag but all flags except for the U.S., state, city and POW/MIA banners. Mayor Amer Ghalib, 43, defends the action as one of neutrality, saying no group should be able to promote a political agenda on city property... “The sole purpose was absolutely to go after the gay pride flag,” maintains Josh Hansknecht, a middle school teacher and president of the Hamtramck Queer Alliance. The issue has laid bare tension between the LGBTQ+ community and socially conservative Muslims like the mayor. “The ban did not create the conflict, but it emboldened people,” said Hansknecht, 28. “It expanded on that tension.” It also triggered a spike in thefts and vandalism of Pride flags on private property. One YouTube video shows teenagers egging homes that were flying the flag. Some people, like 23-year-old Selena Briggs, are talking about moving out of the city, saying they no longer feel welcome... At the June meeting when the council voted to remove all flags, a lesbian couple went before the council to express opposition to the ban, then embraced in a dramatic kiss, triggering a wave of discomfort in the audience. An elderly Muslim man closed his eyes and covered his heart with his hand. The mayor, a health-care worker at a local clinic, stresses that the city welcomes all. He notes that no other constituencies have objected to the blanket ban on the flag... Many Muslims and other residents support the council’s decision, the mayor insists. “I don’t like the fact that [the LGBTQ+ community is] publicly having these flags everywhere, and it’s being forced on me,” said Amin Haque, 26, an Uber driver who is of Bangladeshi descent. “There’s no problem being gay or lesbian, but keep it to yourself. Just don’t push it on us.” Stackpoole, who served on the council from 2008 to 2012, thinks the real rift is between the LGBTQ+ community and the city’s male leadership, backed by Hamtramck’s conservative mosques. Neighbors are not pitted against neighbors, she said... Anthropologist Rumana Rahman, who chairs the local beautification committee, echoes those sentiments. In a city where low-income immigrants are a significant part of the population, she sees most getting along with the LGBTQ+ community. And their real concerns are not a Pride flag but worries about the challenges of daily life."
Leopards eating people's faces can only be used to mock people who the left hate, because the cruelty is the point. When the left see the consequences of their actions, it's Solidarity and being Brave enough to do the Right and Decent thing
There're still people claiming that liberalism is about neutrality and not privileging any particular view. But one cope is that "tolerance" (i.e. flying the Pride flag as a symbol of allegiance to the regime) is not political
If not flying the Pride flag means queer people feel unwelcome and you hate them, every flag conceivable needs to be flown or that's discrimination and hate
Apparently getting along with your neighbour means supporting the flying of the Pride flag
I'm just surprised the article didn't blame white people and/or Christians, or called for having even more Muslim residents or even more measures to welcome them, so they would love the queer community back in return
Extremist influencers ‘weaponizing femininity,’ warns Canadian intelligence report - "Women’s workout routines that devolve into anti-government rhetoric. Makeup tutorials with anti-feminist commentary. Personal finance videos that blame immigrants for stealing jobs. According to a Canadian government intelligence report obtained by Global News, extremist movements are “weaponizing femininity” on social media to attract more women into their ranks... “Certain bloggers promote xenophobic and anti-2SLGBTOI+ rhetoric under the guise of expressing concern for children's well-being”"
Clearly, criticising the government means you're a dangerous extremist, as does disagreeing with feminists, and recognising that supply and demand affect the labour market. If there's something that's really dangerous in a democracy, it's criticising the (left wing) government
Naturally, if you don't want the government to sterilize and castrate your children, you're a dangerous extremist too
You should listen to women's voices - when they push the left wing agenda
Why University of Oregon paid $700,000 to lawyers for Twitter drama - "In June 2022, one of the University of Oregon's Twitter accounts blocked Portland State University political science professor Bruce Gilley. In August 2022, Gilley filed a lawsuit, claiming that UO, as a government institution, violated his constitutional right to freedom of speech... The online conflict began June 14, 2022, after a Tweet from the UO Division of Equity and Inclusion, @UOEquity on Twitter. The Tweet included an image with the phrase “It sounded like you just said____. Is that really what you meant?" prompting conversation around racist microaggressions. The caption stated "You can interrupt racism." Gilley quote-retweeted the post with the phrase "All men are created equal." Shortly after, Gilley was blocked by @UOEquity, which was operated by the division's former communications manager Tova Stabin... While previously very active with multiple posts a day, @UOEquity hasn't posted to Twitter since Aug. 18, 2022, days after the lawsuit was filed on Aug. 11."
Left wingers believe the US is irredeemably warped, prejudiced and bigoted and has been so since its founding, after all
Free speech fury after woke university censors professor for quoting a line every American learns in school - "Institute for Free Speech Senior Attorney Del Kolde, who worked on the case, heralded the fee award as a 'vindication' of fundamental constitutional rights. 'The university made a costly decision to prioritize DEI principles over constitutional principles,' he said. '[They] aggressively litigated this case for nearly three years rather than acknowledging the obvious — that blocking someone for quoting the Declaration of Independence violates the First Amendment.'... He was shortly afterward blocked by the university staffer who ran the account, Tova Stabin — who identifies online as a 'Ashkenazi lesbian feminist'... Stabin resigned from the university shortly before the lawsuit was filed, with internal records released in the case showing that other staff members urged her to unblock Dr Gilley as soon as they were aware of the situation. The University's general counsel immediately emailed her requesting that Dr Gilley be unblocked unless he engaged in speech 'not protected by the United States and Oregon Constitutions'. The University's communications department also sent an email to staff reinforcing that '"viewpoint discrimination" isn't permitted when managing social media accounts.'"
As per the previous article, the university claimed that there didn't need to be a lawsuit and this could've been solved with a phone call or email, but the woke employee refused to unblock him and retired rather than go through the suit, so
A Year at New College - "the New College of Florida... Despite its minuscule size, the Sarasota college attracted 17 separate articles or op-eds in the New York Times in 2023 and hundreds more in the mainstream American media as a whole. That journalistic attention has not abated, perhaps because New College is now seen as the anti-Harvard. The Guardian newspaper serves up a steady diet about the right-wing horrors unfolding here. Every few weeks, another media storm arises: a heated debate in Tallahassee over the college’s budget or an over-medicated administrator exposing himself off-campus. The latest indignation is the college’s scotched plans to reclaim the architecturally integrated Ringling Museum in its midst, as well as a University of South Florida campus to the north, clear evidence of a search for lebensraum. Long-form essays of astonishing detail continue to appear. The Chronicle of Higher Education weighed in with 8,000 words, or 10 words for every student, in April. Politico is about to serve up a novella, as well. Meanwhile, the very busy American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has been churning out a steady stream of op-eds, censures, and interviews about what they call an “intellectual reign of terror” at New College. All hands on deck, as they say. Make no mistake: The efforts by Florida governor Ron DeSantis to revive an intellectually moribund higher-education sector in the state, including his reconquista at New College, are worthy acts. But the Left’s obsessive focus on New College tells us more about the manias of the intellectual establishment than it does about the likely impact of this tiny institution—or, for that matter, about the entire 12-university state system in Florida and its 430,000 students... One theory is that the Left’s hysteria over Florida and New College is simply misinformed... Faculty radicals still wield enormous influence at the college. While President Richard Corcoran shuttered a comatose gender-studies program (sample thesis: “The Female Nonwhite Dancing Body and the White Male Gaze”) and has hired a few dozen scholars who actually deserve the name, the faculty remains decidedly hostile to efforts to inject intellectual diversity and professional accountability into the place. The faculty committee, for example, is so antagonistic and dysfunctional that they could not convince anyone to stand for chair during the past year. When the long-tenured historian David Harvey eventually agreed to take on the thankless role (one he had previously held), only 30 of the faculty voted in favor, while 50 abstained and 23 voted against. Harvey is suspected of collaborationist tendencies. This is the behavior of children. In late May, the faculty passed an illegal and pointless “resolution” against immigration enforcement on campus. It then nominated as one of the three academic division chairs a Mexican radical who has become the face of La Resistencia and whose scholarly record consists of nothing but campus activism. This sends red flashing lights to any non-leftist scholar considering a career at the college, especially because DeSantis leaves office next year, and Corcoran is a politician who could be called away at any moment. In short, New College is about as likely to become a “conservative bastion” as is NPR... The malign effects of that old oil in misshaping higher education may be overstated, despite the pretensions of the professoriate. Cultural reproduction now takes place largely outside of universities: in the alternative media, in churches, in sports teams, in parent groups, in the workplace, and of course in the practice of adult reading... Even if New College quickly became a successful model of an intellectually diverse and rigorous institution and scaled up to its planned 1,400 students and 200 faculty, it might merely be cited by the state’s professoriate as a reason to dig in elsewhere. “You have your conservatives in Sarasota,” they would assert, echoing the common fallacy that having a few token conservatives makes a place intellectually diverse. The fact is, we just don’t know how this will play out. The safest bet is that there will never be any public university in the United States whose faculty is even remotely politically balanced, much less intellectually diverse. A recently released nationwide survey of faculty from 2020 showed that 40 percent described themselves as socialists, Marxists, activists, or radicals... A second theory for the furor over New College is that it is a form of psychological displacement. The enormous trauma on the left surrounding its unexpected loss of hegemony in American intellectual life since 2016 may have caused a redirection of those passions to soft targets such as New College. If the “Trumpocene” has gotten you down, there is nothing like a good old-fashioned campus rally to restore mental tranquility. You can even bring your own tambourine... Out there, gender madness is being reversed, followed by climate madness, immigration madness, and DEI madness. This is not because the universities have become more plural places of late, quite the opposite. The professors simply don’t matter as much as we thought. What did I learn from a year at New College? Reform efforts in American higher education need to be aligned with what matters to a flourishing civilization. What do matter—what, in other words, remain overwhelmingly reliable and powerful propellants of civilization—are parenting, families, K-12 preparation, sports and business endeavors, educational norms, faith communities, work, cultural leadership, literary life, and public reverence for the past and our inherited institutions. This means that if places such as New College are to make an impact, they have to reach beyond the classroom."
Weird, I thought attacking higher education showed you were a monster, like Trump wanting Harvard to obey the law
Left wingers are so threatened by diversity and competition