[CornFed]

Perhaps I'm unaccustomed to looking at "poop swastikas", but i seriously don't see anything in the picture you posted.  Nonetheless, I presume it's there, but do they even know who actually put it there?  It is not terribly uncommon for the person reporting the hate crime to have perpetrated the act themselves.  But even if one of the activists did that in this case, I understand that there are plenty of proven incidents around the country to use as examples.  It just seems these episodes always start at DefCon5.  The point is made that there is a long history of tension starting with people feeling minimalized or mistreated in many fairly minor ways and when they take their concerns to the appropriate authority they do not feel their issues are being taken seriously enough.  So then all hell breaks loose.

I mean, the situation at Yale arose because the wife of the resident professor sent out an email essentially saying that Yale students are adults and should not be instructed about proper Halloween costumes.  The dean of a women's college a while back was threatened with the loss of her position for trying to offer a message that I'm sure she thought was a healing ideal that "All lives matter", which we know now is like throwing gasoline on a fire.

Also, as an aside, I just have to say that the idea that "you're either with us or you're with the oppressors" is an utter pile of horseshit.  In retrospect I detest that bastard Bruce Franklin who argued that case back in 1970 and 1971 when I was a freshman.  I was against the war in Vietnam but I couldn't bring myself to destroy campus property, which was what those jerks wanted to do to make their useless point.

This whole social justice movement is in danger of invalidating itself with me because it substitutes volume for reason, rancor for rationale.  They are willing to invalidate everyone else's rights in the misbegotten notion that somehow it will restore theirs.  The movement is beginning to be similar to McCarthyism.  "If you don't believe in things like I believe, then you're evil and have to be destroyed".

[CornFed]

Perhaps I'm unaccustomed to looking at "poop swastikas", but i seriously don't see anything in the picture you posted.  Nonetheless, I presume it's there, but do they even know who actually put it there?  It is not terribly uncommon for the person reporting the hate crime to have perpetrated the act themselves.  But even if one of the activists did that in this case, I understand that there are plenty of proven incidents around the country to use as examples.  It just seems these episodes always start at DefCon5.  The point is made that there is a long history of tension starting with people feeling minimalized or mistreated in many fairly minor ways and when they take their concerns to the appropriate authority they do not feel their issues are being taken seriously enough.  So then all hell breaks loose.

I mean, the situation at Yale arose because the wife of the resident professor sent out an email essentially saying that Yale students are adults and should not be instructed about proper Halloween costumes.  The dean of a women's college a while back was threatened with the loss of her position for trying to offer a message that I'm sure she thought was a healing ideal that "All lives matter", which we know now is like throwing gasoline on a fire.

Also, as an aside, I just have to say that the idea that "you're either with us or you're with the oppressors" is an utter pile of horseshit.  In retrospect I detest that bastard Bruce Franklin who argued that case back in 1970 and 1971 when I was a freshman.  I was against the war in Vietnam but I couldn't bring myself to destroy campus property, which was what those jerks wanted to do to make their useless point.

This whole social justice movement is in danger of invalidating itself with me because it substitutes volume for reason, rancor for rationale.  They are willing to invalidate everyone else's rights in the misbegotten notion that somehow it will restore theirs.  The movement is beginning to be similar to McCarthyism.  "If you don't believe in things like I believe, then you're evil and have to be destroyed".