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Here’s what I think:
The closer your institution is to the globalist agenda, the less free speech. So, it stands to reason that Harvard, which is the most globalist of globalist institutions by virtue of being possibly the best college in the world, is the least free because it actively courts people from countries (China) that are not free.
Oregon State, on the other hand, probably serves and graduates students to serve largely American interests. Therefore its hierarchy isn’t handcuffed by the globalist anti-freedom movement.
One man’s guess.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Let the winds of freedom blow*
* Not available in all areas, your mileage may vary, some limitations apply.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Gotta admit, the professor made a number of bad choices that probably mean he shouldn’t teach at Stanford again, but discussing the topic and provoking discussion isn’t necessarily one of them.
- He should not have singled out students for their identity
- He should have been more sensitive so as not to discuss an emerging war that has very little factual underpinning in the news. Timing was really bad.
But I actually am not bothered by the provoking of discussion via smart-aleck responses that might reflect the knee-jerk reactions of others. Even the comment “only 6 million” can be said effectively and widely misconstrued as absolutely inappropriate. I could easily hear a very provocative professor using that as a tool for challenging students to think as broadly as possible.
I completely disagree with the comparison of the Holocaust to the Belgian Congo, but can see it as a point of discussion and debate.
I guess I’d have to have heard the facilitation approach. I often use a facilitation approach that is very adversarial in my professional life, and can assure you I don’t always hold the beliefs that I speak to in some sessions.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Not really shocking.
And, to the last point: I think it’s pretty well understood that whenever police pull back from policing, young black men pay a price.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Regulatory capture at its finest.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)You mean “approved” news sources.
legitimate is a dangerous word these days.
and the cardboard are a bunch of speech nazis.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)We probably have as many jihadis in the U.S. as Gaza has after the last few years open borders.
Thank goodness it’s a big country. Some communities have been fully overrun by virulent antisemitism rooted in Islamist sentiment. Who else elects ilhan Omar to Congress?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The flea powder recession is likely overstated.
Inflation remains WAY above acceptable levels, and it’s just political spin to say anything otherwise. We have halved the inflation rate and we have politicians declaring victory, but it’s the absolute level of inflation that’s a really big deal.
3.7 percent inflation is nearly double the traditional target rate.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The population is fat. I just hope our combat troops are in shape. Fat truck drivers can be effective. Fat army rangers can’t.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)So bad. Fire them.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It’s fascinating how prejudice is already twisting the narrative. Israel is viewed as “punching down” and no matter the Israeli body count (currently 800 and rising) or composition (mostly civilian, including 250+ murdered at a music festival), there will be voices that, like the famous quote from ilhan Omar, minimize terrorist action as “somebody doing something” and placing the focus on the brutality of the response.
Last report is that 9 Americans are among the dead, with uncounted hostages possible. It appears that hostage taking was systematic to provide human shields. That’s one reason I expect Israel to take a few more days to measure twice and cut once.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)No warmonger am I. But the more politically correct application of the old adage of “don’t start nothin won’t be nothin” is in effect. This was the invasion of a country that now should be given free hand to strike back.
Israel should occupy, subjugate, and transform Gaza. The Palestinians had their chance at self government, and their government just poked the bear.
I’m sorry for the Israelis and for the innocents who will doubtless get caught up on the war within Gaza, but the actions this weekend were beyond the pale.
Our administration will continue to fiddle to satisfy some post-modern sense of “peace in our time,” I presume.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I believe what neo is writing. Rates are going to go up more short term; and the term premium is going to continue to escalate so that long term rates compensate people for true risk of default.
borrowing makes the whole thing go, and right now borrowing is getting really expensive. The consumer will tap out, companies will default, and then we will be right back to stimulus and loose money before ever mopping up all the loose money that was released during the last 15 years.
Powell is in a really tough spot but I have no sympathy for him and for Yellen’s “transient inflation” crowing. They made their own bed. They should have been tightening from the pandemic rate lows during 2021 and instead just left the punch bowl spiked with ever clear.
Wait until Congress gets a load of long treasuries at 7-8 percent. Gonna be hard to ignore deficits at that point when debt service projections start to have a “T” on them.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)By the way, is there a contest among the political parties to appoint the least qualified, but most controversial people to high office? I think it’s a play on the old adage that no publicity is bad publicity. Look at the De Santis situation: He’s an accomplished executive in FL with a bland personality and he’s practically dead in the water, whereas Trump is trump and gets more unearned publicity than any person in history, perhaps?
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