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The End of Debate

 

 

A popular tactic on the left today, and for the past several decades in this country for that matter, is to strong arm adversaries and shout them down.  Faithful readers of this blog will recall the “feminist studies” professor Miller-Young who went berserk when confronted with a group of young pro-life women peacefully presenting  information on abortion at the University of California at Santa Barbara.  Go here, here and here to read about it.  The following is an account by one of the pro-lifers present, Mairead McArdle, a student at Saint Thomas Aquinas College:

 

 

One part of the story that is not as widely known is what happened prior to the professor’s theft and assault. I can tell you about it. I was there.

I was among 13 pro-life students who exercised our right to free speech on that sunny afternoon in March. I was actually the first one to speak with Professor Young.

When the incident began I was using the sign in the “free-speech zone” to start conversations with people passing by. I began a calm, rational conversation with Professor Young, asking her what her thoughts were on our position and our sign.

She immediately raised her voice and spoke condescendingly, accusing me of using “fear tactics” to coerce women.

“I have a PhD, three degrees more than you do!” she yelled, smiling. At one point, she threw the pamphlet I had handed her at me.

“Do you even go here?” she asked me. “There’s no way you have the right to be here.”

I told Miller-Young that she could ask the administration whether we had the right to promote our cause on campus. She refused, saying she knew we had no right to remain.

After about 10 minutes of Miller-Young talking over me and yelling obscenities, a group of about 15 students gathered around us and watched the spectacle, as the professor continued her rant.

Before Miller-Young had begun, some of the students had been having reasonable discussions with us, but now they joined the professor and, following her example, mocked us and our work.

Professor Young started waving her arms, and walked back and forth between us and the students, insisting to them that we were liars.

Each time I tried to speak to Miller-Young, she would interrupt to yell at me. I also talked to at least three of the students who had gathered around. Because the situation was already hostile, however, and they threw insults me.

Go here to read the rest at The College Fix.  A democracy works so long as people believe they can present their views to the public and be heard.  When that is no longer the case, democracies break down.  Colleges and Universities are frequently doing their worst to convince everyone to the right of Joseph Stalin that they will not be allowed to present their views without being subject to abuse, harassment and violence.  A totalitarian mindset is developing on much of the left in this country, and that bodes ill for civic peace in the future.

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Paul W Primavera
Paul W Primavera
Wednesday, May 21, AD 2014 5:25am

“I have a PhD, three degrees more than you do,” she shouted. Degrees from today’s liberal academia include:

BS = bull s….
MS = master s…
PhD = piled higher and deeper
DD = dirty diapers

As my 2nd sponsor in a 12 step program once told me, “A thermometer has degrees and you know where you can stick that.”

PS this is a commentary solely on today’s academia and not on those readers here who earned their degrees the old fashioned way.

Anzlyne
Anzlyne
Wednesday, May 21, AD 2014 5:45am

This woman used her PhD as her license to have the right to impose her opinion judgement of how life a should be. People with or without PhD s use their position as justification. In some groups this self assertion just comes down to who is toughest. What this wrangling points out to me is that is not about ideas – more primal than that. It is just about dominance. And narcissism, no respect for others, God or man.
Not about ideas so no discussion or debate.

Mary De Voe
Wednesday, May 21, AD 2014 6:01am

and this is what the students are taught from the first day at secular college, that they are better than the rest of the community. Lord of the Flies by William Golding comes to mind. Beelzebub is translated Lord of the Flies.Unfortunately, when the students assume this posture, they miss truly being better than the community.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Wednesday, May 21, AD 2014 6:22am

If Miller-Young, PhD were not a professor of utterly useless spucatum tauri, she would, as her students soon will be, intimately familiar with KFC as employer.

Lower primates fling their feces at each other. Birds of a feather . . .

Philip
Philip
Wednesday, May 21, AD 2014 7:27am

For the defenders of Truth;
$29.95 Liberalbegone Spray.
When reason and manners are absent from dialog, and aggressive behavior ensues, break out your last defense…Liberalbegone!

Fire a warning shot first. Spray at violent extremities that are flalling about.
If aggressive behavior continues, one rapid spray in the red facial area should be enough to subdue the 3 x PhD in her tracks.

To easy. I know. What is on the horizon? Hate speech crimes exist.
NSA phone records infringement.
The War on virtue decency and purity is taking place. St. Michael defend us in battle.

Art Deco
Wednesday, May 21, AD 2014 7:31am

Here she is:

http://www.femst.ucsb.edu/people/academic/mireille-miller-young

Unless UC Santa Barbara is eccentric with titles, she’s been awarded tenure. Santa Barbara is a research university, not a lower-tier private college; you need to publish if you want to keep your job. This woman is 38 years old. Its a reasonable guess she began working on her dissertation 10 years ago. In the intervening years, her published work has amounted to…her dissertation edited for publication. At the liberal arts college I know best, a publication record like that gets you a pink slip; melanin will not help you avoid such a fate if you’re up short to that degree.

Here’s a precis of her sicko research here:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.csw.ucla.edu%2Fpublications%2Fmireille-miller-young-files%2FMMYFiles.pdf&ei=x6V8U9DRA-rksASprICYAw&usg=AFQjCNEyyM586t-f5fz0wb-0MenfsA4AOQ&sig2=385YGkreweZPDlvjfEFSEQ&bvm=bv.67229260,d.cWc

This history department in any institution is not the site of practical learning. It’s liberal education, which is to say education for leisure. People use their leisure-time viewing the smut she studied without the need for an academic guide.

She was awarded a doctoral degree in “American History” for puzzling over disgusting mass entertainment products produced after 1966. What does this suggest?
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1. New York University and UC Santa Barbara, the sites of said travesty, should be reduced to rubble by aereal bombardment.

2. The hiring committee who inflicted her on the students of UC Santa Barbara, the tenure and promotion committee who further inflicted her, her dissertation committee and she herself should be tarred and feathered and forced to run around Washington Square Park in Manhattan until they drop from exhaustion.

Clinton
Clinton
Wednesday, May 21, AD 2014 7:49am

Miller-Young is being charged with misdemeanor theft, battery, and vandalism.
Amazingly, she has pled “not guilty”. UCSB does not appear to have conducted
an internal investigation of its own in the matter, and the Associate Professor has
not been suspended from teaching, even though she is being charged with
battery on a 16-year-old girl.
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It doesn’t surprise me that there are Miller-Youngs out there– the world is full
of crazy, vicious people. What truly astonishes me here is that this university is
so complacent about leaving this woman in her teaching position considering
the nature of the charges against her.
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Back in March, Michael Young, the UCSB vice-chancellor for student affairs, issued
an email to all UCSB students regarding the issue. In it, he denounced
demonstrators who “peddle hate and intolerance with less-than-noble aims”,
and referred to them as “anti-abortion crusaders” and “evangelical types”. In
short, while he never mentioned Miller-Young, he seemed to blame the 16-year
old girl she assaulted. But rest easy, the vice-chancellor assured students in
his email that he cherishes open debate and affirms that “our Founding Fathers–
all white men of privilege, some even slave owners– got it right when designing
the First Amendment of the Constitution”.

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Wednesday, May 21, AD 2014 9:19am

She’s a real credit to her institution, her profession, and all the ideals they both purportedly stand for.
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By the way, Donald, what do you mean “is developing?” That totalitarian mindset is rather fully developed by now, don’t you think?

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