Cornell infomercial - Truth or Conspiracy Theory ??

[French Rage]

Their entire channel looks like warmed-over donkey shit.

Ever been to Freep?

Or the UNH DI thread?

[TimV]

Faced with the choice between being mildly inconvenienced by the hypocritical, mincing performative wokeness of affluent 20-something whites who will age on to vote for lower top marginal rates and a warfare state and then wonder why the country continues to crater, just like their pathetic Clintonista parents, vs being burned alive on a dying planet while being shot by AR-toting white nationalists because a bunch of Heritage and Federalist asswipes figured out how to get rubes to vote against their economic self-interest by leveraging their hyperactively racist amygdalae, I know which poison is for me.

THAT is a breathtaking work of linguistic art.  Seriously.

[BearLover]

Faced with the choice between being mildly inconvenienced by the hypocritical, mincing performative wokeness of affluent 20-something whites who will age on to vote for lower top marginal rates and a warfare state and then wonder why the country continues to crater, just like their pathetic Clintonista parents, vs being burned alive on a dying planet while being shot by AR-toting white nationalists because a bunch of Heritage and Federalist asswipes figured out how to get rubes to vote against their economic self-interest by leveraging their hyperactively racist amygdalae, I know which poison is for me.

THAT is a breathtaking work of linguistic art.  Seriously.

Art, maybe. Most of us here would probably agree with him. But I don't think Trotsky is responding to the question. The question isn't, "is the American right some combination of evil, stupid, and crazy?" Rather, the question is, "does the fact we on the left regard the right as some combination of evil, stupid, and crazy mean we should suppress what they have to say?"

[ugarte]

there's something to the critique of the heckler's veto but the existence of protests or requests for deplatforming is not that. there are examples of where it goes farther of course, but the way people talk about protests usually ignores that the protests themselves are a form of speech worth valuing.

[Trotsky]

Faced with the choice between being mildly inconvenienced by the hypocritical, mincing performative wokeness of affluent 20-something whites who will age on to vote for lower top marginal rates and a warfare state and then wonder why the country continues to crater, just like their pathetic Clintonista parents, vs being burned alive on a dying planet while being shot by AR-toting white nationalists because a bunch of Heritage and Federalist asswipes figured out how to get rubes to vote against their economic self-interest by leveraging their hyperactively racist amygdalae, I know which poison is for me.

THAT is a breathtaking work of linguistic art.  Seriously.

Art, maybe. Most of us here would probably agree with him. But I don't think Trotsky is responding to the question. The question isn't, "is the American right some combination of evil, stupid, and crazy?" Rather, the question is, "does the fact we on the left regard the right as some combination of evil, stupid, and crazy mean we should suppress what they have to say?"

I am all for letting the fuckwits talk.  It removes all doubt.

But I was responding to OP's insipid claim that Cornell Fucking University is some sort of Leftist dystopia.  FFS, it's a hockey team I love aligned with a real estate and federal grant scam.  It has the feverish social conscience and kindhearted humanity of Goldman Sachs.  The Right should cream themselves just thinking about how it churns out generation after generation of bovine, entitled, centrist New York Times readers too terrified of losing their summer home to contemplate actual change.

Cornell as Pol Pot forcing the rich into the fields to work with their hands?  If only.

[nshapiro]

Faced with the choice between being mildly inconvenienced by the hypocritical, mincing performative wokeness of affluent 20-something whites who will age on to vote for lower top marginal rates and a warfare state and then wonder why the country continues to crater, just like their pathetic Clintonista parents, vs being burned alive on a dying planet while being shot by AR-toting white nationalists because a bunch of Heritage and Federalist asswipes figured out how to get rubes to vote against their economic self-interest by leveraging their hyperactively racist amygdalae, I know which poison is for me.

THAT is a breathtaking work of linguistic art.  Seriously.

Art, maybe. Most of us here would probably agree with him. But I don't think Trotsky is responding to the question. The question isn't, "is the American right some combination of evil, stupid, and crazy?" Rather, the question is, "does the fact we on the left regard the right as some combination of evil, stupid, and crazy mean we should suppress what they have to say?"

I am all for letting the fuckwits talk.  It removes all doubt.

But I was responding to OP's insipid claim that Cornell Fucking University is some sort of Leftist dystopia.  FFS, it's a hockey team I love aligned with a real estate and federal grant scam.  It has the feverish social conscience and kindhearted humanity of Goldman Sachs.  The Right should cream themselves just thinking about how it churns out generation after generation of bovine, entitled, centrist New York Times readers too terrified of losing their summer home to contemplate actual change.

Cornell as Pol Pot forcing the rich into the fields to work with their hands?  If only.

Once again, I mostly agree, but...
Cornell is not a monolith.    
The Wall Street wannabees may be most of the student body, but they just want to get through having as much fun as possible without their names attached to a scandal.
The most vocal group of students is the far left.
Fortunately, they don't set Cornell policy.