tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post3704162899759294514..comments2024-03-28T09:47:25.719-04:00Comments on Daffey Thoughts: The Five Threats to FreedomDavid Griffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-37652600510927394192021-10-06T08:27:42.355-04:002021-10-06T08:27:42.355-04:00That wouldn't surprise me. And it would make ...That wouldn't surprise me. And it would make sense for the professional suppression to happen behind closed doors inside the faculty establishments, while giving the impression of tolerance in the classroom - and allowing the students to be the foot soldiers in that particular battleground. David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-999260674220168162021-10-06T08:26:31.599-04:002021-10-06T08:26:31.599-04:00Hold that thought. Given the zeal with which they...Hold that thought. Given the zeal with which they're willing to support anything done by the Left, I see no reason to believe they won't be happy to go there if the time comes. David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-88082158734517357642021-10-05T15:08:25.121-04:002021-10-05T15:08:25.121-04:00I think if you unpack it, behind the loosely-wired...I think if you unpack it, behind the loosely-wired students are instigators and enablers on the institutional payroll, and a notable deficit of people <i>discouraging</i> them. Some of the instigators and enablers are faculty, some are salaried staff. Also, see examples where the faculty are quite openly working to suppress dissent. The campaigns agains MS Adams at UNC Wilmington and against Wm. Jacobson at Cornell are run by faculty. Art Decohttp://wwrtc.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-62659674494914166842021-10-05T15:04:08.372-04:002021-10-05T15:04:08.372-04:00I'm remembering now. Christine Todd Whitman&#...I'm remembering now. Christine Todd Whitman's staff was accused of it in the 1993 governor's race in New Jersey. Had nothing to do with the actual mechanics of elections administration. The charge was that the campaign had paid off clergyman in the black population to refrain from mobilizing their constituents. I don't think the accusers ever identified who was bought. Art Decohttp://wwrtc.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-71285557668770504762021-10-05T10:00:05.638-04:002021-10-05T10:00:05.638-04:00Next thing you know, they'll be voting to have...Next thing you know, they'll be voting to have a minority of people shoved into boxcars.Nate Winchesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00630873800235819300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-73704096047062347122021-10-05T07:35:11.486-04:002021-10-05T07:35:11.486-04:00I'll bet. Though you never know today. If th...I'll bet. Though you never know today. If they think the majority is on their side, they may well support such an idea. After all, human sacrifice has turned out to be a pretty interesting option for tackling overpopulation. How beneficial could slavery of the right kind of people be? David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-24779557523265663692021-10-05T07:33:40.697-04:002021-10-05T07:33:40.697-04:00I remember hearing it in both my political science...I remember hearing it in both my political science and sociology classes. Perhaps things were going on in the Buckeye State then that brought the issue to the core. But that was in the mid-80s, and I can remember it being linked to the old Political Machines of bygone days. David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-44022844498523540182021-10-05T07:32:35.350-04:002021-10-05T07:32:35.350-04:00This is true. The free and open exchange of ideas...This is true. The free and open exchange of ideas was dogma in those days. It still is, per my sons. Contrary to what we often hear, the profs themselves typically allow a range of discussions. It's the students who do the shutting down. David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-39182641245393427102021-10-04T10:05:58.126-04:002021-10-04T10:05:58.126-04:00I actually never heard the term 'voter suppres...I actually never heard the term 'voter suppression' up until about four years ago. I was, btw, active in party politics for a time ca. 1987, so I'm somewhat familiar with the mechanics of election law in that era. New York does some things <i>comparatively</i> well, and elections administration in that era was one. Absolutely no innovations undertaken in other states in the intervening years have improve matters one iota. Art Decohttp://wwrtc.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-53321502480266117452021-10-04T10:01:46.216-04:002021-10-04T10:01:46.216-04:00I am a lapsed student of political science. It ha...I am a lapsed student of political science. It had in my era a terrible problem with methodology - clear thinking about the approaches to learning and evaluating material. For that reason, I'd have recommended people study some other discipline and only take poli sci courses for distribution credits. It was quite a smorgasbord and there's something for every interest. Still, in my time and in my place, everyone was free to offer any perspective they cared to and professors were not prescriptive. There were several in our department who were decidedly non-liberal. I cannot imagine any of them (and one of the visiting professors had been an aide to Sen. Birch Bayh) putting something so tendentious in front of their students.<br /><br />Mr. Griffey, there isn't one thing your contemporaries and mine (much less the cohorts succeeding them) don't do worse than the generation preceding ours. Art Decohttp://wwrtc.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-57202590326011128612021-10-04T08:46:50.934-04:002021-10-04T08:46:50.934-04:00Tell your son to ask them if it's ok for a maj...Tell your son to ask them if it's ok for a majority in a society to vote on a minority in it to be enslaved by said majority.<br /><br />The answers should be enlightening.Nate Winchesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00630873800235819300noreply@blogger.com