Thursday, July 16, 2020

Despicable Behavior of Today's Academicians, by Walter E.Williams | Creators Syndicate

See the source imageDespicable Behavior of Today's Academicians, by Walter E.Williams | Creators Syndicate-- Walter E.Williams

  • The Michigan State University administration pressured professor Stephen Hsu to resign from his position as vice president of research and innovation because he touted research that found police are not more likely to shoot black Americans. The study found: "The race of a police officer did not predict the race of the citizen shot. In other words, black officers were just as likely to shoot black citizens as white officers were." For political reasons, the authors of the study sought its retraction.
  • The U.S. Department of Education warned UCLA that it may impose fines for improperly and abusively targeting white professor Lt. Col. W. Ajax Peris for disciplinary action over his use of the n-word while reading to his class Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" that contained the expressions "when your first name becomes "n——r," your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are). Referring to white civil rights activists King wrote, "They have languished in filthy, roach-infested jails, suffering the abuse and brutality of policemen who view them as 'dirty n——r-lovers.'"

...The suppression of free speech and ideas by the elite is nothing new. 
It has a long ugly history. Galileo Galilei was a 17th-century Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes called "father of modern physics." 
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The Catholic Church and other scientists of his day believed that the Earth was the center of the universe. 
Galileo offered evidence that the Earth traveled around the sun — heliocentrism. 
That made him "vehemently suspect of heresy" and was forced to recant and sentenced to formal imprisonment at the pleasure of the Inquisition and was later commuted to house arrest for the rest of his life.
Much of today's totalitarianism, promotion of hate and not to mention outright stupidity, has its roots on college campuses...Read all.

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