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University Students Traumatized After Milo Yiannopoulos Speaks on Pitt Campus

Posted on | March 4, 2016 | 30 Comments

 

He’s @Nero on Twitter, and inspires fear on campus:

The University of Pittsburgh’s Student Government Board held a public meeting on Tuesday to discuss the traumatizing visit the night before from “dangerous” homosexual and Breitbart Tech Editor Milo Yiannopoulos, during which students described themselves as feeling “hurt” and “unsafe.”
“During his talk, Yiannopoulos called students who believe in a gender wage gap ‘idiots,’ declared the Black Lives Matter movement a ‘supremacy’ group, while feminists are ‘man-haters,’” according to the student paper The Pitt News, prompting a handful of twenty-something-year olds to feel upset.
“Just because we have to be neutral with our funding doesn’t mean we’re personally neutral,” announced board member Jack Heidecker at the meeting. “I hurt yesterday, too.”
“So many of us shared in our pain. I felt I was in danger, and I felt so many people in that room were in danger,” proclaimed Marcus Robinson, student and president of the Pittsburgh Rainbow Alliance. Robinson also suggested that councilors should have been provided in another room to protect students who felt “traumatized” by Yiannopoulos’s opinions.
“This is more than hurt feelings, this is about real violence. We know that the violence against marginalized groups happens every day in this country,” claimed social work and urban studies major Claire Matway. “That so many people walked out of that [event] feeling in literal physical danger is not alright.” . . .

(You were “feeling in literal physical danger”? Really?)

Student Government Board President Nasreen Harun is reported to have “teared up” after “hearing students’ experiences as a result of Milo Yiannopoulos’ talk on Monday.”
“We’re very sorry people are feeling the way they are and it was not intended… and we’re sorry people are not proud to be at Pitt,” she expressed in deep remorse.

These Special Snowflakes™ are so pathetically weak.

 

Category: Education

Is Jack Montague a Rapist?

Posted on | March 4, 2016 | 28 Comments

 

The senior captain of Yale University’s basketball team, Jack Montague was averaging 9.7 points per game before he left school last month for reasons that were not explained at the time. Yale Daily News reports:

Two days after signs calling on the Yale men’s basketball team to “stop supporting a rapist” first appeared on campus, a new set of posters expressing a similar message appeared Wednesday morning in the Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona lecture hall.
All of this week’s posters referred to the recent controversy surrounding the basketball team’s show of support for former captain Jack Montague ’16, who was withdrawn from the University on Feb. 10 for reasons the team and University have not specified.
At last Friday’s Yale–Harvard basketball game, the team came out for warmups wearing T-shirts which had Montague’s jersey number and nickname, “Gucci,” on the back and “Yale,” spelled backwards with inverted letters, on the front. Monday’s posters featured an image of the team wearing the shirts.
By 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, new posters were hung on two billboards just outside the lecture hall and placed on chairs inside the hall. A handwritten note chalked on the classroom’s blackboard read “Rape culture is standing by your teammate and silencing Yale’s victims of sexual assault.”

Who is “silencing” whom?

The Yale Women’s Center wrote a lengthy status on Facebook. Their claims have not been substantiated.
The post read: ‘In light of recent events, The Yale Women’s Center would like to express its sentiments on the Yale that we want to be a part of.
‘Our Yale is a place of respect and a home to all. It is a Yale in which students can feel comfortable and forge meaningful relationships on the basis of mutual understanding and consent.
‘We at the Women’s Center believe in this vision, and therefore have high expectations for the Yale administration to promote a culture of respect.
‘Bearing this in mind, we wish to comment on the current campus conversation in hopes that we can create an atmosphere of respect and understanding during this time of healing. We recognize that FERPA and Yale policy prohibit Yale from commenting on the exact nature of the incident.
‘Though the silence is deeply frustrating to us and surely to many of you, Yale’s actions speak much louder than its words. It appears that Yale has expelled a high-profile member of a sports team in the midst of a pivotal moment in the season on the basis of sexual violence.
‘While we can only speculate about these occurrences, we can comfortably say that, should all of this be true, this is progress.
‘It is progress both in the sense that a survivor felt that coming forward was a viable option for them and that they got the decisive outcome that they fought for.’

“Progress” = getting the basketball team captain expelled. The federal law FERPA (The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) means that Yale officials cannot discuss the reasons for Montague’s expulsion. In the absence of details, it would be useless to speculate what happened, except that somebody failed to warn Jack Montague:

GUYS: NEVER TALK TO A COLLEGE GIRL!

Feminists have incited a climate of anti-male hatred on American college campuses. Jessica Valenti has declared that the feminist movement’s goal is to “redefine rape” to make it easier to expel male students, effectively criminalizing all heterosexual activity on campus. Too bad Jack Montague didn’t read my blog. In November, three months before the captain of the Yale basketball team was expelled and branded a perpetrator of “sexual violence,” I explained what feminist “progress” means:

The fate of “John Doe” at Brown University — banned from campus for making out with a girl he met at a party — illustrates the extreme danger male students face in an academic environment where feminists have ginned up a frantic hysteria of hatred. Because the number of actual rapes does not justify their claim that 1-in-5 college women are victims of sexual assault, officials are trying to make up for the “Rape Shortage” by inciting false accusations.
At Washington and Lee University, an official reportedly told female students that “regret equals rape.” At Ohio State University, you are guilty of sexual assault unless you and your partner agree why you are engaging in sexual activity. At Harvard University, there were six false rape accusations in 2014. The organizer of a “Summit on Sexual Assault” conference at Darmouth College suggested male students should be expelled as soon as they are accused.

Warn your sons, America: Never talk to a college girl.

 

Category: Crime, Education, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 03.03.16

Posted on | March 3, 2016 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Da Tech Guy: Tell Me, Who’s The Con Man Here?
Proof Positive: Trump, Ever Gracious In Victory
The Political Hat: They Would Rather The Poor Be Poorer, Cartographic Edition
Michelle Malkin: The 2016 Debate Debacle
Twitchy: Mitt Romney Speech Excerpt – “Donald Trump Is A Phony, A Fraud”
Shark Tank: White House Might Nominate An Appeals Court Judge For SCOTUS


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Democrats Fear Dead-Serious Threat In Trump Nomination
American Thinker: Justice Thomas, Candle In The Darkness
Conservatives4Palin: Koch Brothers Won’t Spend To Block Trump
Don Surber: I, Too, Wish It Were Not Trump
Jammie Wearing Fools: Latest Trump Tantrum – Threatens To Take Lunatic Followers With Him For Independent Bid
Joe For America: Irate German Knocks Out Two “Refugees” Who Put Hands On His Wife
JustOneMinute: The Email Investigation With New Petraeus Spin
Pamela Geller: Only Three Christians Among Syrian Refugees Admitted To U.S. After Paris Attacks
Shot In The Dark: First We Blame the Republicans
The Gateway Pundit: 60,000 Democrats Voted In Virginia Republican Primary
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Islamic Logic AFU
The Lonely Conservative: At This Point, It’s About Math
This Ain’t Hell: The Future Of Army Airborne
Weasel Zippers: Crack Dealer Freed Early By Obama Murders Woman, Two Kids
Megan McArdle: Trump Fans Size Up #NeverTrump Republicans
Mark Steyn: Huddled Masses In Toronto


The Infidel, featuring Pigman

Category: Linkagery

#FreeStacy #CPAC2016 ‘Free Speech Should Flourish’ #DontTreadOnTheNet

Posted on | March 3, 2016 | 9 Comments

 

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
Interesting headline today:

‘Free speech should flourish’:
Jewish head of Oberlin college
defends his decision not to sack
female professor who claimed
Jews were behind 9/11 attacks

You will recall that students at Oberlin College (annual tuition of $50,586) consider themselves victims of “imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, and a cissexist heteropatriarchy.” Evidently, it’s OK for these Special Snowflakes™ to have Jew-hating 9/11 “Truther” conspiracy theorists as their professors, yet they need “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” to deal with the emotional trauma if someone like Christina Hoff Sommers is allowed to speak on campus.

Ever since Obama was elected president, it seems, many of our nation’s young people have become incapable of thinking rationally, and demand that they be protected from dangerous things like facts, truth and reality.

“Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He’s playing the American public for suckers . . . His domestic policies would lead to recession. His foreign policies would make America and the world less safe. He has neither the temperament nor the judgment to be president.”
— Mitt Romney

Gosh, Mitt, if only you’d criticized Barack Obama half as much . . .

Tonight there will be a debate. We’ll see what happens. Meanwhile, the #FreeStacy message is spreading at CPAC, one selfie at a time.

News from CPAC:

No matter what your policy priority is, it is an Internet issue. Whether it’s Internet regulations that threaten the rollout of new and innovative Internet services, or liberal activists’ attacks on Internet speech, supporters of big government are moving aggressively to replace Internet freedom with more government control. That’s the last thing we need.
Join Protect Internet Freedom now to prevent censorship and protect the Internet from unelected bureaucrats and safe-space social justice warriors.
Be sure to attend the PIF panel on Internet Freedom on Thursday, March 3rd at 4:15 PM, National Harbor #15.

 

Category: CPAC

#CPAC2016: Trumpsters and RINOs and Immunity for Witnesses, Oh, My!

Posted on | March 3, 2016 | 11 Comments

 

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
Last night, the annual “RINOcon” party gathered at the Public House here, and I arrived late, having first stopped by National Pastime to have refreshments with Jazz Shaw and Ed Morrissey of Hot Air. We discussed the latest news:

Justice Dept. grants immunity to staffer
who set up Clinton email server

That certainly adds a new dimension, eh? Ed writes: “Gee . . . does the Department of Justice offer immunity to potential witnesses for routine ‘security reviews’? Bryan Pagliano, who declared his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent when the FBI sought to question him about Hillary Clinton’s secret e-mail server, will have to start talking soon.”

Anyway, this morning I got up and read Matt Lewis’s Daily Caller column about CPAC and there’s this:

Robert Stacy McCain deserves mad props for dubbing it the “Mardis Gras of the Right”

Thanks for the hat-tip, Matt. The Lonely Conservative is coming to hang out and Da Tech Guy examines the problems faced by Marco Rubio.

The Trump campaign is all anyone is talking about here:

Donald Trump’s speaking slot at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturdayis prompting an acrimonious backlash from the conservative critics desperately trying to mount a last-ditch campaign to block the GOP presidential front-runner from winning the party’s nomination.
A top aide to Trump rival Marco Rubio has accused CPAC organizers of being in the tank for Trump and clearing the way for his acceptance into mainstream conservatism, while an anti-Trump super PAC is pressuring organizers to rescind their invitation to the surging GOP front-runner.
Potentially complicating matters further, sources tell POLITICO that Trump has made multiple donations totaling more than $100,000 ? including a $50,000 check last year ? to the American Conservative Union, the group that organizes CPAC. That dwarfs the amounts donated in recent years by allies of Trump’s rivals, all of whom are also scheduled to speak at the annual gathering, and seems likely to fuel already percolating suspicions among his opponents that the ACU has its thumb on the scale for Trump.

Can he be stopped? More to the point, should he be stopped?

Republicans in Washington are divided over how to handle Donald Trump, who after Super Tuesday is a step closer to becoming the GOP standard-bearer this fall.
Trump’s rise has stunned establishment Republicans, who have been grasping for any strategy that might deny Trump the nomination.
But with the businessman’s delegate lead growing, a number of GOP lawmakers also say they’re preparing to work with whoever the Republican nominee is.
“Either we trust the primary system or we don’t. We trust the primary voters or we don’t,” said Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), who had endorsed Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) before he dropped out of the race. “I will be supporting our nominee against Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton.”
Among Senate Republicans, there’s a growing feeling that opposition to Trump would backfire, given voter distrust of the GOP establishment.
“My impression is the voters are voting with their own minds and they’re not looking for direction or guidance from me or anybody else,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas).

My concern is this: If the GOP Establishment could stop Trump, he would the likely run third party, and that’s game, set, match. The #NeverTrump movement is therefore problematic, if your goal is to keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House, which certainly should be your goal.

Today there will be a 4:30 p.m. CPAC panel by Protect Internet Freedom about the growing threats to online free speech.

 

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BANNED BY TWITTER!

The #FreeStacy movement, a grassroots response to Twitter’s Feb. 19 decision to suspend my popular @rsmccain account, has received international attention. You can help support this movement by including the #FreeStacy hashtag on your Twitter messages, by retweeting messages in support of this movement, and by signing up at PublicStatus.org, which is dedicated to defending free speech rights on social media. Thanks to everyone who has helped spread the word.

— Robert Stacy McCain




 

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Category: CPAC

#FreeStacy #CPAC2016: Because ‘Freedom of Expression Is Essential’

Posted on | March 2, 2016 | 52 Comments

 

Hitting the road tonight, folks! For the 11th consecutive year, I’ll be covering the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this week at National Harbor. The big political news today is that Ben Carson appears to be out of the GOP campaign, but will speak Friday at CPAC, while Mitt Romney plans to use his Thursday CPAC speech to make the case against Donald Trump, who will speak Saturday at the conference.

As for me, in addition to covering CPAC, I also plan to call attention to the Left’s war against online free speech:

On February 19, Twitter suspended the account of award-winning conservative journalist Robert Stacy McCain. His supporters immediately launched the #FreeStacy hashtag campaign as a protest against this censorship.
McCain’s suspension came 10 days after Twitter had announced the creation of a “Trust and Safety Council” that included radical feminist Anita Sarkeesian and many left-wing progressive organizations. McCain had been using Twitter since 2009 and his account (@rsmccain) had tens of thousands of followers. In addition, Twitter also suspended @SexTroubleBook, an account McCain created in 2015 to promote his book Sex Trouble: Radical Feminism and the War Against Human Nature. . . .

You can read the rest at Da Tech Guy Blog.

The #FreeStacy campaign is getting widespread attention, including an editorial in the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

Back in 2011, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone boldly declared that “freedom of expression is essential,” and that while some tweets on the social media platform might “downright anger a vast majority of users” — and that while even Twitter itself didn’t always agree with what its users chose to tweet — the company would “keep the information flowing irrespective of any view we may have about the content.”
Five years later, however, that pledge has pretty has much fallen by the wayside.
Last month, the social media platform rescinded the “verified” user status of ring-wing pundit Milo Yiannopoulos, and, in the weeks since, has also banned controversial right-wing writer Robert Stacy McCain, as well as censor a hashtag protesting the move.
Why did Twitter take these actions? Presumably because they align with the mission of its new Trust and Safety Council. The council, unveiled by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey earlier this month, strives to “ensure people can continue to express themselves freely and safely on Twitter,” while also striking “the right balance between fighting abuse and speaking truth to power.”
While Twitter, much like college campuses, claims to support all things diversity, the makeup of this council shows that the company has no interest in true diversity of thought. As Mr. McCain pointed out in a recent interview with San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra J. Saunders, of the 40 organizations on the council, many are left-leaning and none is conservative or libertarian. If Mr. Dorsey truly valued diversity, he wouldn’t have assembled what amounts to an echo chamber that places liberal thought-police ideology over (truly) free speech. . . .

Meanwhile, I’ve written an 1,800-word column about it:

Feminism is always a lecture, never a debate. Any criticism of feminist discourse is cited as proof that the critic is a vile misogynist. Objections to the anti-male rhetoric of feminist ideologues like Anita Sarkeesian are construed by her as threats to her safety.
“Every day I see my words scrutinized, twisted and distorted by thousands of men hell-bent on destroying and silencing me,” Sarkeesian told her sympathetic listeners at a feminist conference in Sydney, Australia. . . .
Who is being destroyed, and who is being silenced? I’d like to explain this to the tens of thousands of people who followed my Twitter account, but unfortunately my account has been destroyed and silenced. . . .

Read the whole thing at The American Spectator.

 

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BANNED BY TWITTER!

 

The #FreeStacy movement, a grassroots response to Twitter’s Feb. 19 decision to suspend my popular @rsmccain account, has received international attention. You can help support this movement by including the #FreeStacy hashtag on your Twitter messages, by retweeting messages in support of this movement, and by signing up at PublicStatus.org, which is dedicated to defending free speech rights on social media. Thanks to everyone who has helped spread the word.

— Robert Stacy McCain




 

 

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Category: CPAC, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 03.02.11

Posted on | March 2, 2016 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.02.11

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Rubio’s Fargo
Da Tech Guy: Charlie Baker’s Blueprint For Trump’s Revenge On The GOPe
The Political Hat: Canada To Go Full Action T4 On The Mentally Ill
Michelle Malkin: Culture Of Corruption – The VA’s Dirty Watchdog Exposed
Twitchy: NATO Commander Warns ISIS “Spreading Like Cancer” Among Refugees
Shark Tank: Former Romney, Rubio Supporters Turning To Cruz In Florida
Real Clear Politics: Super Tuesday Results With Delegate Allocations


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Rubio Finally Takes A State (Minnesota)
American Thinker: Trump May Not Know The Secret Of His Own Political Success
Conservatives4Palin: Suit Questioning Cruz’ Eligibility Tossed Out On Technicality
Don Surber: Hitler Finished Second, And Why That’s Important
Jammie Wearing Fools: “Unifier” Trump Threatens Paul Ryan After Criticism
Joe For America: Obama Threatens Border Agents With Firing If They Enforce The Law
JustOneMinute: Megan McArdle On #NeverTrump Versus #TrumpOn
Pamela Geller: Muslim Migrants’ Mass Rapes At German Shopping Center
Shot In The Dark: Lest One Think…
STUMP: Puerto Rico Round-Up – Pensions Before Bonds?
The Gateway Pundit: Huckabee Calls For GOP To Get Behind Trump
The Jawa Report: Huffpo Hates??? Oh, Come On, One Guess
The Lonely Conservative: If Unemployment Is So Low, Why Is Food Stamp Use So High?
This Ain’t Hell: SFC Charles Martland – To Free The Oppressed
Weasel Zippers: Ben Carson To Suspend Presidential Bid, Campaign Issues Statement
Megan McArdle: Trump’s Shock Strategy Works, Until It Backfires
Mark Steyn: The Post-Super Tuesday Arithmetic


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Category: Linkagery

Democrat Raped 14-Year-Old Babysitter; Liberal Publisher Helped Cover It Up

Posted on | March 2, 2016 | 11 Comments

Neil Goldschmidt was Secretary of Transportation in the Carter administration from 1979 to 1981, and governor of Oregon 1987-1991, but before that . . .

In the 1970s, Portland, Oregon, mayor Neil Goldschmidt started sleeping with his kids’ babysitter. She was 14 when it started. It didn’t become public, but it also wasn’t a well-guarded secret. Goldschmidt took her to parties with other power brokers in the state, but no one said anything. . . .
That Goldschmidt raped a babysitter didn’t become public until 14 years later later in the wake of a scandal involving Goldschmidt and his lobbying clients, as well as some dogged Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting from Willamette Week that brought it to light. They were referred to as the “light rail mafia” because Goldschmidt was exploiting all of the transportation rules and development restrictions that he himself had put in place when he was in office. The story was that Goldschmidt’s victim had threatened to go public and one of the conditions of the settlement was that he would leave public life. So he became the state’s top lobbyist, not that the move would necessarily prevent him from doing less political damage. . . .

One of those in on the cover-up? Liberal publisher Win McCormack, who co-founded Mother Jones and recently bought The New Republic. Kicker:

In 2011, Elizabeth Lynn Dunham, Goldschmidt’s teenage victim, died in hospice at age 49. She spent most of her life battling addiction and mental illness. Neil Goldschmidt is still with us. When he’s not in Oregon, he lives on an estate in the South of France.

Democrats are the “rape culture” feminists never notice.

(Hat-tip: Ace of Spades HQ.)

UPDATE: Here’s a Weekly Standard story from 2012 in which Mark Hemingway remarks: “Portland is quietly closing in on San Francisco as the American city that has most conspicuously taken leave of its senses.”

 

Category: Crime, Democrats
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