FIGHTING BACK –AT 11:41 A.M. ET:  We see so many discouraging stories about the state of our universities.  It's good to know that some of our brethren and sistren are fighting back against liberal bigotry and campus oppression.   From College Fix: 

Several members of the University of Colorado Board of Regents are pushing to prioritize diversity of political thought on campuses statewide, and it’s an effort that’s being praised — and joined — by conservative students who say they’ve faced silencing, backlash and more in the classroom.

Take Maddison Meeks, who spoke to the board recently about what she’s faced at CU Boulder, and in particular an experience she encounter after the Parkland school shooting.

“One day after the shooting, we were talking about the NRA in my political parties and interest groups class and a member of my class said that the NRA is a terrorist organization and all of its members are to blame for mass shootings,” Meeks told the board. “This hit me hard because I am now an NRA member … and I also strongly support the fight against terrorism.”

“I responded to their statement by telling them that I am a member and that the purpose of the NRA is not to perpetuate fear, as the definition of terrorism states, but it is to educate its members on safety, self-defense, and the right to freedom set forth by the Constitution. To this, the student responded that I am just a brainwashed conservative who doesn’t want her assault weapons taken away. I tried to speak again to defend myself and my values, but instead was silenced by the professor, while every other student, who just so happened to all be pro-gun control, were given the chance to speak and give their points,” Meeks (pictured above left) said in her speech, given at an April board of regents meeting.

COMMENT:  Read the whole story.  It's good to know there are people willing to fight the good fight, but their number is still too small.  Conservative students and faculty are intimidated, some quite openly, on many campuses.  Alan Dershowitz, a liberal who defends the civil rights of conservatives as well as liberals, said a few years back that, after he gives a speech, he gets phone calls from professors thanking him for saying what they can't say at their own schools.

One of the great lies is that intellectuals love freedom.  Some do, and some definitely don't.  Universities, both here and abroad, have often been breeding grounds for the most totalitarian ideas.  It's been said that all genocides begin on college campuses.  We've seen the totalitarians on our campuses get the upper hand, and that must be reversed if our schools are to perform a public service, rather than be public disgraces.

July 21,  2018