By Professor Doom
I know my title is
unsurprising on two levels, since administration lies about everything, always,
and it’s well known that conservative thinkers aren’t allowed to speak on our
campuses now…but the title says so much all the same.
Even if conservatism
is fundamentally wrong, fundamentally flawed, the worst thing that ever
happened to humanity…conservatives should still be allowed to have their say.
It’s a simple fact, to judge by the last
election, that about half the country still thinks people should not be slaves to a government master no
matter how much the master says he has really, really, good intentions.
Even if those
“deplorable” people are wrong, their numbers indicate their ideas should be
heard. If those are ideas are so wrong…then there could not possibly be harm in
talking about and, supposedly, laughing at them in the same way we laugh at
CNN’s endless doubling down of their false narratives (on their shows, at
least, even as their employees readily admit they’re peddling bullsh*t).
The other part of
title is important, too. Part of why the
USSR collapsed in the end was the leadership was so incompetent, so
hypocritical, so brazen in their wildly inaccurate belief in their own
superiority, that the people simply could no longer put up with it, as there
was no longer even a tiniest iota of possibility that the system of government
of the USSR was doing any good for the people.
We’ve got to be
getting close to that point in higher education, as their latest lie is over
the top.
So, noted
conservative Ben Shapiro bravely decides to come to Berkeley, accepting the
invitation from Berkeley student group Young America’s Foundation (YAF).. And,
of course, the leaders of Berkeley move to stop it:
No, this isn’t
really news, every time a conservative tries to speak this happens. But let’s
look at the lie:
“…administrators have informed YAF and BCR that they are “unable
to identify an available campus venue.”
The article I’ve
linked to just lets this slide but…what a lie. Is it a space consideration? According
to wiki, no:
Total land owned 6,679 acres (2,703 ha)[5]
There’s a solid
6,500 acres they’re not using, so plenty of space if they wanted to have the
talk outside. Are there no buildings? Well, they have
half a dozen major construction projects underway right now, along
with usual plethora of other construction jobs. Like most every campus,
Berkeley has been on a madcap building spree for decades. They’re even
building a senior living center…we really, really, need to ask why
our campuses are so nuts about construction projects.
In any event, if
Berkeley has space to build an old folks’ home on campus, then they have plenty
of building space.
Maybe they just
don’t have a room large enough? Nope:
Classes
can be massive. Organic chem was 800 students. Biochem was about 400. These
were upper division courses. Lower division courses are worse.
Wow, if they have a classroom which seats
1800, and many other classes that seat hundreds, then they have a room large
enough for a speaker who supposedly isn’t going to talk about anything anyone
wants to hear, right?
The idea that they just can’t find a
place for Shapiro is such an obvious, blatant lie, but such fall easily from
administrative lips. Back to the linked article:
Student Organization Coordinator…Morris Chaney denied the
students’ request for a venue for September 14, 2017, despite what the
Morris Chaney calls “extensive efforts.”
--note the title is
twice as long as the holder’s name, a good indicator of a position that could
be closed, thereby improving education at this education institution.
“Extensive efforts”? HAHAHahahahaha. It
took me all of ten minutes to identify 6,000 acres and many rooms large enough
for the talk.
How do you, as a conservative student, sit
there and listen to this crap, knowing, as a student, of the many rooms large
enough to hold a talk? Did I mention the stadium? It seats 63,000.
But no room for Shapiro, as I'm sure the gentle reader is shocked, shocked, to hear.
How can half the country still tolerate
their tax dollars going to institutions which promote ideas “they” find
positively repulsive (as per the presidential election), knowing that the rulers of those institutions are now not
even trying to make their lies believable?
To be fair, Berkeley admin knows their lie
won’t hold up to even casual scrutiny, and so they are already lining up other
pretexts:
The
administrator states that Berkeley can only host Shapiro “when events are held
at a time and location that allow for the provision of any required security
measures.”
Berkeley
has not yet provided any alternative times, dates, or locations.
Now, I grant that considering the kinds of
violent thugs Berkeley admin supports means that, yes, they should be concerned
with security. They should always be concerned about security, as their favored
thugs are a violent lot and will turn on each other at some point (and I don’t
quite understand why admin are so perfectly confident these thugs will never
target admin…).
Shapiro did speak on campus recently before.
How’d that turn out?
I totally understand administrative
spinelessness, and I do wish they’d start using simple ideas for cutting down
the campus riots (incidentally, the campus I discuss in that link is still
getting riots, despite all the administrative concessions…yeah, a shock, I
know). Berkeley admin is already scared of Milo and Coulter, so I suspect
they’re just trying to do the same. It remains to be seen if Ben Shapiro will
force the issue, but the fact remains:
Our campus leadership is now at the point
where they’re willing to tell blatant, ridiculous lies rather than the simple
truth: they’re terrified of what the people they’ve allowed on campus will do if
admin displeases them.
After finally being called out on their
lies, admin changes their mind:
So, were they
lying then, or are they lying now? I mean, they could easily change their mind
again, right? They’re
certainly making it hard for the event to happen.
Shouldn’t such highly paid leaders be able to make simple decisions like this and
follow through with a bit of reliability?
We have to be getting close to the point
where people just won’t support such insane institutions.
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