Maybe Thurston Howell III Had a Point

[LDAHL]

This whole Yale Halloween costume flap seems more like a South Park episode than something that would happen in real life. I'm a few years out of college, but I have to believe that instructions from the University on proper attire would have met with general derision. Now, people are apparently being attacked for questioning the level of censorship. Times certainly seem to have changed.

http://www.nationalreview.com/yale-free-speech-protest-ironic

[iris lilies]

This whole Yale Halloween costume flap seems more like a South Park episode than something that would happen in real life. I'm a few years out of college, but I have to believe that instructions from the University on proper attire would have met with general derision. Now, people are apparently being attacked for questioning the level of censorship. Times certainly seem to have changed.

http://www.nationalreview.com/yale-free-speech-protest-ironic

The irony of protesting speakers at a program about free speech is delicious.

While I agree with generalities of Williamson's article, in the bigger picture it could be viewed as just another "kids these days are taking society to hell in a hand basket" view, something that takes place each generation.

I think back to the Vietnam war protests. Really, are there substantive reasons that debacle was worth the death and maiming of Americans? I don't see any, we were right to protest that back in the day. But of course protesting anything that looks like a slight to cause hurt feelings is not the same scale as the threat of dying in Vietnam.

Living as I do in Protest Central (a few miles from Ferguson MO and a few counties from Univerity of MO) I am always curious to know what the end game is and how it is defined. What does fixing the racist campus of the University of MO actually look like? I await the 28 point plan with accompanying studies and meetings that will elucidate it all for us.

[Gregg]

The irony of protesting speakers at a program about free speech is delicious.


Isn't it, though! Too bad it appears to have been lost on the protesters themselves.

[rodeosweetheart]

Isn't it, though! Too bad it appears to have been lost on the protesters themselves.
Indeed, that young woman screaming at her adversary to "Be Quiet" and then dropping her backpack to better physically intimidate him-- very depressing, if she is the hope for our future. A fascist,in my book.

[LDAHL]

Indeed, that young woman screaming at her adversary to "Be Quiet" and then dropping her backpack to better physically intimidate him-- very depressing, if she is the hope for our future. A fascist,in my book.

After watching that display I wondered how she will function in the post-Yale world.