Old Bias at the New School

"The New School" is a university located in New York's Greenwich Village. No prizes for guessing what its politics are. But its president is obviously something of a moderate. The institution's president is Bob Kerrey, a former Democrat governor and senator. He has invited Senator McCain, a prominent Republican moderate, to be the school's commencement speaker this year.

But lots of Leftist students don't like that. They are agitating for the school to revoke the invitation. And they are using the tired old excuse that McCain is not pro-homosexual enough, with his stand on homosexual marriage being targeted. In fact, McCain seems not to have opposed homosexual marriage at the Federal level. What "offends" the Leftist students is that McCain will also be speaking at Liberty university, which was founded by Jerry Falwell, who IS critical of homosexuality.

The most amusing aspect of the protest, however, may be this:

"Harper Keenan, a sophomore, has helped organize the dissent. “In all of our classes we’re taught the value of inclusion of all people,” he said, “and we’re taught to question our leaders.""

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Conservatives are obviously not people to this disciple of Stalin, who somehow thinks that the best way to question people is to silence them.

McCain is also scheduled to speak at Columbia university and students there want to prevent him speaking too. I guess the Leftist students are terrified that some students might discover that conservatives make sense.




"Illegal" is Racist

It seems to be in New Mexico, anyway:

"A Gallup Junior High School teacher is having personnel action taken against it for making a racially derogatory comment against a Hispanic student.

On Tuesday afternoon, the teacher, whose name school officials refused to release, allegedly made a comment to an eighth-grade student asking if he was "legal" and whether or not he had papers."

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I guess my dictionary must be behind the times.

Update:

Sorry! I had the wrong link above. Now fixed. The point of the post is that the teacher may well have been out of order but was he racist?




Homosexuals Need Special Mention

Bullying against "all" students is to be outlawed in Florida but apparently "all" does not include homosexuals!

"Human rights supporters rallied against what they called a "vague" anti-bullying bill Monday afternoon, claiming the legislation leaves the most vulnerable students, such as gays and minorities, unprotected....

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The sponsor of the bill sees the protest as a claim that certain children deserve more protection than others.