oberlin college won't suspend failing grades because students were protesting

[justoh]

Only in America...

 

[Thebobo]

Please. Find me a conservative that believes in this kind of crap. I'll wait.

Otherwise, this fits the same profile as your average Occupy Wall Street liberal protestor.

Find me a liberal that believes this. You're just assuming here, doubt you would find many who agree with these folks. They sound like like spoiled, entitled kids.

 

[Sir Thumpsalot]

Find me a liberal that believes this.

Every single delicate flower who requested this delay.

You're just assuming here, doubt you would find many who agree with these folks. They sound like like spoiled, entitled kids.

Like I said, liberals. You assume there is a difference.

 

[Knowing]

I'm offended on behalf of persons of color everywhere - but particularly in my household - that a privileged white woman who is confident in her ability to succeed would think for a moment that the simple status of being a person of color would make them unable to pass exams.

The soft racism of lowered expectations never fails to deliver.

 

[brianmanahan]

Even better is what happened at Kent State. I just love it when arrogant little socially conscious p***ks are ground into the dirt. I had to work so hard and sacrifice so much to get where I am. Look at me Daddy, I'm a good boy. You can't make fun of little Moonbeam any more Daddy, because I'm the Daddy now. I'm just like you, you f****g p***k.

this is a grade A moonbeam response

 

[Drako]

this is a grade A moonbeam moron response

FTFY

 

[Moonbeam]

this is a grade A moonbeam response

Which means you'll never get it.

 

[Sir Thumpsalot]

I'm offended on behalf of persons of color everywhere - but particularly in my household - that a privileged white woman who is confident in her ability to succeed would think for a moment that the simple status of being a person of color would make them unable to pass exams.

The soft racism of lowered expectations never fails to deliver.

+1 :thumbsup:

People should not be judged as competent or incompetent based on their race or culture, but as free individuals.
Even when ones intentions are kind and good, you are not doing anyone a favor by trying to label someones abilities or attributes based as such. I would think such treatment to be utterly humiliating and personally debilitating.

But liberals and race-baiters consider that kind of treatment to be sympathetic. Its absolutely pathetic.
Kudo's to you for speaking up against this kind of behavior.

 

[brianmanahan]

side note, oberlin is such a weird, wacky, yet wonderful place.

i live pretty close to it, and the surrounding area is mostly farm country with some small villages and towns. pretty conservative, not a very high median income, %99.5 white population, many of whose families have lived in the area for 100+ years.

then you drive into oberlin and BOOM - kids from all over the US and world, many from families rich enough to afford the 50$k/year tution. idealistically liberal. a pretty racially diverse community. hippies and hipsters on every street corner. a museum, a conservatory, and dorm houses everywhere.

and then you drive out of town and BOOM - you are back in the normal world again.

it's fun to go to just because it is so different. they always have a sweet classic car show on junteenth so i usually make a day of it. just walk around the town, feeling like i am traveling somewhere farther than a short drive away.

and nobody who lives there dares ventures farther south than the walmart south of town, so there's a self-imposed buffer

 

[werepossum]

haha I love it.. anyone else see this..

apparently, a student at Oberlin sent an e-mail to her professor asking to delay an exam, to help out those who have been "traumatized" over the recent events..

her professor's reply was spot on..

http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/16/oberlin-prof-refuses-exam-delay

Perfect.

One would think new little lawyers-in-vitro would be burning to fight injustice, not use it as an excuse.

Every single delicate flower who requested this delay.

Like I said, liberals. You assume there is a difference.

To be fair, I think there's a difference between classical liberals and progressives. Classical liberalism gave us just about everything desirable about Western civilization, fighting for centuries to maximize individual liberty and freedom, for decoupling the power structure from the arbitrary (be it man or church) in favor of the necessary. Proggies on the other hand are mostly concerned with minimizing individual liberty and freedom, for themselves (freedom ain't in the same class as Uncle Sugar's sweet teat) and for others (by using to armed might of government to force people into line with their own preferences.)

 

[Sir Thumpsalot]

Perfect.

One would think new little lawyers-in-vitro would be burning to fight injustice, not use it as an excuse.


To be fair, I think there's a difference between classical liberals and progressives. Classical liberalism gave us just about everything desirable about Western civilization, fighting for centuries to maximize individual liberty and freedom, for decoupling the power structure from the arbitrary (be it man or church) in favor of the necessary. Proggies on the other hand are mostly concerned with minimizing individual liberty and freedom, for themselves (freedom ain't in the same class as Uncle Sugar's sweet teat) and for others (by using to armed might of government to force people into line with their own preferences.)

Classical liberalism is essentially what we would call libertarianism, which I fully support.
I think we can all differentiate between classical liberalism (libertarianism) and modern liberalism (progressive). And I don't think there is any reasonable question in which I was referring to.

 

[werepossum]

Classical liberalism is essentially what we would call libertarianism, which I fully support.
I think we can all differentiate between classical liberalism (libertarianism) and modern liberalism (progressive). And I don't think there is any reasonable question in which I was referring to.

I think there's room for people to honestly consider themselves liberal (in a classical sense) but not libertarian. Certainly there's a lot of overlap, but liberals believe in government more than do libertarians, if less than progressives. Reasonable people can believe in a reasonable role for government that arguably promotes individual liberty without unduly compromising anyone's freedom. Environmental laws, for example. Surely there is room between the libertarian laissez-faire "market will handle it" and the proggies' "whatever the government wants from or for other people is okay by me".

 

[peonyu]

Protesting over the death of a violent, cop attacking thug isnt worth its time in pennies, let alone College time. Good for the school !

 

[zinfamous]

good.

Why would they complain? Part of protest is actually making your own sacrifice, no? Or, has that changed?

morans.