re: UGA pulls a UC-Berkley

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I would hardly say the majority of people wants to be ruled. More like a minority wants to be lazy and get free shite and then another minority feels guilty about their "white privilege" and wants everyone who's successful to suffer and pay some recompense.

I'd say the vast majority of people are a lot more conservative than they realize they are. Especially people who think they're Liberals.

Ask a Liberal if he wants the government to take away his cell phone or car and give it to someone who hasn't earned it, but has all the means to earn those things on their own if they chose to, and I'll bet you that Liberal says, "Hell no, I worked to pay for those things."

Well, that's precisely a Conservative mentality. You see, most of these Libs are only "Liberal" until their ideologies effect them directly. Then they're as conservative as it gets.

Progressives are the ones we have to worry about. They're not liberal at all, they're extreme Socialists. They've just hijacked the term "progressive" because of its positive connotation, and the fact they can drag Liberals under their umbrella by simply adopting most of the Lib talking points, which they really don't care about.

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It is easy to be a liberal when your surrounded by mouth breathing neo-cons...you are right. What you have wrong is that it is a minority of people who want free shite....everyone wants free shite. The most conservative people among us will have a fricking conniption fit if they have to pay a few more cents a gallon for gas so they can drive down a paved road...they will claim that they are upset because the government is inefficient, which it no doubt is, but if it was Apple running the DOT and their costs for using the hiway went up they would bitch about it. Liberals want to take your shite and give it to someone else.....conservatives want to keep their shite and get as much of other peoples shite as they can.

No I know that the legions of conservatives among us like to claim the title of producer for themselves but we are all on the teat as much as any welfare queen you can name. Like it or not we are a social people and as such we will always eventually wind with a socialist economy. Yall can fight it as much as you like....nothing like raging against the machine when you are young....but it is a battle you will lose.

Another big victory for freedom of speech and freedom of expression!

God times

I think every greek, male and female, should get a hoop skirt and parade around campus in it. And dare someone to do something about it. Can you picture campus police arresting someone for wearing clothes admin doesn't like.

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Dear Mr. Wilson, 


Your recent comments concerning Old South dress attire seemed to hit a nerve with many. As an eighth generation Georgian ,I take offense with your councils decesion to ban clothing worn by my ancestors because you deem them as racist. Please help me understand what is racist about wearing period garb?  Why do you want these children  to be ashamed of their ancestors? Why am I paying university officials to publicly ridicule my children's ancestry and heritage. This decision is treading on dangerous ground, imo. If this is what you consider progress, you should set the bar a little higher. I will question state lawmakers in the coming day's on these decisions (under your leadership), and what (if anything) can be done to  stop the destruction and denigration of our history .


With Regrets,

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Thank you for contacting the University of Georgia to express your concern. 


This choice was made by student leaders of our fraternities and sororities, and we respect their decision. Although I was only present for 15 minutes of the meeting, the term "racist" was never used and has not been used since then by the students or staff here at the university during discussions regarding this matter.


Again, thank you for sharing your concerns.

VKW

Sent from my iPad. Please pardon any keystroke errors.


Victor K. Wilson

Vice President for Student Affairs

The University of Georgia

306 Memorial Hall

Athens, GA 30602

(706) 542-3564 -- office

(706) 542-8225 -- fax

Email: wilsonv@uga.edu

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I'm 100% positive the chapters were approached first by administration. I'm not sure what the tradeoff was though.


If the kids don't have the nuts to stand up for their own traditions, not sure if I should give a damn.

Liberals react emotionally. Slippery slope.

Would this vice president react similarly to a person that has their pants around their thighs, underwear showing?

Would he argue that this is an expression of minority repression, penal system indoctrination of the solidarity blacks have because of prisoners?

Hoop skirts/showing your underwear.

I don't give a frick.

When you take it upon yourself to ban anything that is protected by the Constitution, I do.

Who elected this vice president to enact...bans.

What right do you have to tell anybody how they should portray themselves? What should they do in order to not "Offend" someone else? What is your guideline *cough* *cough* rule/empowerment?

I only went to north campus because I had to for the "Classical Education". I can say that the ideas presented opened my eyes, presented ideas that "inquired into the nature of things", not the ban of things.

I have contributed to the Hartman Fund for decades.

When I want a bottled water with the "cap on". Nope.

Forget it.

frick this shite. This is stupid.

I just want some water.

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Beef dawg , just so I'm clear, your assertion is that liberals gained an upper-hand through education and fact-based science, "winning arguments" as you say, over faith-based, less-pragmatic conservatives, and then took that political capital and "brainwashed" generations to come? Is it possible that pragmatic, fact-based arguments are the more appropriate "argument" to be had in politics? As opposed to ones of faith?

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Hold on, think for a second about what topics "Faith" could possibly be referring to and then you'll realize that we're talking about a very small select few (but obviously tremendously important to each side) issues.

This by no means suggests that Liberals have ALL the correct facts on EVERY issue or talking point. That's not what I said.

I specifically mentioned the "religious right" as being the other side of the coin to this evolving progressivism in academia. So it's clear the issues that most impacted this were any discussions of religion, God, creationism vs. evolution, genetics attributes and dominance, human rights, and likely the sanctity of life, plus anything relating to these types of subjects.

Now obviously, if an entire culture of people are running around claiming there is no God and creationism is wrong, you're going to alienate an astronomical number of people and create a pretty massive divide and some incredible arguments. This was by far the greatest catalyst of this particular issue and what pushed Academics to feel like they were on the other side of the fence from Conservatism. But even still, this didn't make every single thing these Academics claimed true.

Back in the 50's and 60's, for instance, these Liberals in academia argued that science proved that black people had inferior genes which caused them to have lower IQ's than white people. And because they were deemed "inferior", they supposedly did not deserve equal rights.

Now tell me, would you call that a "fact-based argument"? Yes, technically you would have to because supposedly "science proved it". But guess who was contradicting that supposed science based on "faith"? How about Martin Luther King and about 100 million other "people of faith". And obviously today we know just how idiotic and wrong those "Academics" were.

You see, it wasn't about Academics actually being correct or arguing supposed facts and actually "winning" arguments. It was simply a gradual splitting of ideologies between people who claimed to be correct based on their own confirmation bias.

Technology, science, and mathematics were advancing and helping answer some questions along the way, but not every answer was correct. The Academics just anointed them "facts" simply because it suited them. And all this did was further the divide between Conservatism and Academia, and it's just never really recovered.

Today, Global Warming is a perfect example. It's simply NOT settled science. Progressives only claim it's settled science because that suits their argument. But fact remains, neither side can prove they are right and the other side is wrong.

And this isn't even a "Faith" issue at all. We are WAY past the Faith vs. Practical dichotomy any longer. That ended somewhere around the mid 1990's and now there's 100 different talking points separating two completely distinct sides, and the issues that caused Academia to align with liberalism/progressivism don't even play a role in why anymore.

Academia became a culture of blindly loyal Democrats just like Hollywood did. And there's just no changing it anymore. If you don't conform to the cultural mindset, you are shunned, black-balled, and excommunicated.

Same as black people and most minorities in general today. They are blindly loyal to Democrats because it's just so deeply ingrained in their cultures. Even though it wasn't at one time in the past.

I mean Liberalism and Democrats were the party that supported segregation and opposed equal rights for blacks back in the 60's and prior. Conservatives and Republicans were the ones who put a stop to this.

But those damn Liberal Academics were the ones who taught Democrats how to re-enslave blacks, and not only just make them dependent on government and stuck at the bottom of our class-society, but actually vote for Democrats to keep them there.

Propagate racial divide as much as possible and then bribe them with entitlements and social programs while condemning the wealthy (job creators), absolving them of responsibility, and placing the blame for their problems on Conservatives. That was the backup plan that Democrats came up with once Republicans ended segregation and affirmed black's equal rights. And as it turns out, the backup plan worked better than the original.

that's the great thing about science beef, others in the scientific community will attempt to prove their peers wrong or continue to build upon other ideas, changing as new evidence emerges. "Faith" is not supposed to work like that. Both religion and science have been used as justification of immoral actions as well. I'd venture to say over the course of history religion is probably used more often.

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Conservatives want less Federal regulation and control so that local governments can properly legislate their local constituency.

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Your defining conservatism....not modern conservatives in the United States. Conservatives in the US today no more care about smaller government than a man in the moon. Here is a hint....there aren't enough conservatives in public service in the United States to field a baseball team. There certainly aren't any conservative Democrats and the number of conservative Republicans is miniscule. Of course I know that as long as they pay lip service to shrinking government and cutting taxes and have an R after their name ya'll are completely satisfied in the belief that they can do no wrong. Oh, and by the way, there are also no liberal Republicans and very few liberal democrats in the United States....they are all the same...leave PoDunk USA as moderately succesful business people, go to the state capital or Washington and leave in a few years wealthy and suddenly their friends and family are wealthy as well....and as long as they have the right letter after their name they can do no wrong. You are on the right track...as soon as you come to the realization that there is no conservative movement in the United States and it has nothing to do with political parties you will be completely right...as of now you seem to think that a label means something....and that something makes some sort of difference....meanwhile politicians can do anything they dam well please and we blame whichever side we dont identify with...