New Report Shows First Amendment Liberties In Rapid Declining Under Liberalism

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The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) released its 2014 report on campus speech codes today, finding that 59% of the 427 colleges and universities analyzed maintain policies that seriously infringe upon students’ speech rights.

ISSUU - Spotlight on Speech Codes 2014: The State of Free Speech on Our Nation's Campuses by Gina Luttrell
For over a generation, shocking cases of censorship at America’s colleges and universities have taught students the wrong lessons about living in a free society: that if you don't align with politically correct modern liberal ideology, that it's OK to deprive you of your first amendment and for professors to unfairly grade you lower as a result.

The Torch | FIRE's Blog - The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education - FIRE

Just as the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, it also protects freedom of conscience—the right to keep our innermost thoughts free from governmental intrusion and to be free from compelled speech. As the Supreme Court declared in the landmark case of West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, 642 (1943): “If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.” The Court concluded in Barnette that “the purpose of the First Amendment to our Constitution” was precisely to protect “the sphere of intellect and spirit” from “all official control.”

It is common for universities to announce a set of values that they hope students will share. These values typically include things like an appreciation of diversity, an understanding of the need for civility, and so forth, and are frequently laid out in documents with names like “University Creed” or “Principles of Community.” Too often, however, the language of these documents makes it sound as if students are required to share the university’s values as a condition of enrollment.

It violates your human right for an organization whether it be the United Nations or your local university to coerce you into accepting their radical leftist immoral ideology. Here's a liberal professor and lawyer who genuinely believes in the first amendment:

[video=youtube_share;cHh1WV-81gE]http://youtu.be/cHh1WV-81gE[/video]
 
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Where is the rebellious youth of my day?

They have all become the establishment, all lackeys for the liberal big government line.

Same with the supposed watchdog, the 4th estate, the media.

College is no longer the place for education and expansion of thought. Its pure indoctrination...

and it sure ain't christian.
 
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And it needs to be stated that the graduate rate has dramatically fallen even though the academic bar has fallen simultaneously.

Figures show 66 percent of all high school graduates already going directly to college, but less than 40 percent of those kids manage to get a degree within four years. Promoting a few years of collegiate frustration, with crushing debt and without graduating, is hardly a solution to poverty, or a means of assistance for struggling young people.

More appropriate would be a new emphasis on finishing high school—because the one-out-of-five who don’t get high school diplomas are the ones who are truly crippled in today’s economy. Many Americans could benefit more from vocational school and work experience, than from politically correct courses in “Gender Studies,” "Gay History," or “Third World Poetry.”

The New America Foundation published a September 2012 report showing just how big a problem grade inflation and the dumbing down of courses to increase the pass ratio has become in the U.S..

“Since the early 1990s, colleges have been reinventing themselves using a business model, transforming themselves into Diplomas Inc., run by a new breed of college administrator more interested in retaining customers than educating students” education reporter Craig Brandon wrote in his book, ”The Five-Year Party.”

Standardized testing administered to freshman students at the University of Virginia in their first and second years found that 45 percent of the students showed no significant improvement in their critical thinking, complex reasoning or writing skills in those two years.

The international rankings for U.S. public schools students provide further evidence. The results from the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), which are being released on Tuesday, show that teenagers in the U.S. slipped from 25th to 31st in math since 2009; from 20th to 24th in science; and from 11th to 21st in reading, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, which gathers and analyzes the data in the U.S..

The U.S. public school system was once at the very top internationally for academic performance. Now we’re 31st in math, 24th in science, and 21st in reading and rapidly declining despite spending more than twice as much per pupil in real dollars than when we were at the very top.

The reasons for this are manifold ranging from immigration to public unions to the decline of the family to a shift toward social liberal programming, etc… The latter reason is important as much hard education has simply been displaced out of the curriculum by modern liberal/progressive revisionists seeking to use the public education system as a vehicle to disseminate their ideology. Ironically; however, this dramatic shift toward modern liberalism/progressivism has resulted in less liberty on campus.

And as stated, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) released its 2014 report on campus speech codes today, finding that 59% of the 427 colleges and universities analyzed maintain policies that seriously infringe upon students’ speech rights and that the problem continues to worsen. Other studies show that students who dare to write or vocalize opinion that is not in line with modern liberalism or progressivism and their modern and post modern step children are penalized as a result on their school work by their professors.

And it’s all growing worse over time, rapidly worse… despite enormous sums of money dedicated to it.

Here's an article that talks about some of this: The American Education System Must Be Restored ~ Help Fix America First


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Where is the rebellious youth of my day?

They have all become the establishment, all lackeys for the liberal big government line.

Same with the supposed watchdog, the 4th estate, the media.

College is no longer the place for education and expansion of thought. Its pure indoctrination...

and it sure ain't christian.
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Religious and political groups in the United States have traditionally been free to choose their leaders and members without interference from authorities. That's no longer true at Vanderbilt University, where the school banned belief-based groups from making belief-based decisions about their members and leaders and drove 13 religious student groups off of campus.

In this video, FIRE talks to Vanderbilt students and faculty about how this decision is affecting them. Country music legend Larry Gatlin and author and scholar Jonathan Rauch also explain why Vanderbilt has done both its students and the idea of pluralism itself a profound disservice.

[video=youtube_share;dGPZQKpzYac]http://youtu.be/dGPZQKpzYac[/video]
 
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Understand that Jesus had an all comers policy into his spiritual kingdom but that kingdom has moral qualifications for living and even more qualifications if one aspires to leadership. Forcing Christian groups to go against their own religious beliefs and tenants IS to violate their human rights and also their Constitutional first amendment right.

I can't imagine forcing an on campus animal rights activist organization to accept active hunters engaged in killing animals for sport who then through sheer numbers transform the animal rights organization into one that advocates for sport hunting but with some token conservationism thereby destroying the reason why the group was formed to begin with.

But most liberals have no problem doing exactly that to Christian organizations. It's a hypocritical position which mandates a conflict of interest in violation of the human right to associate around a common interest(s) and places an undue burden on groups that advocate for a minority interest.

Here's another one, Threats, Coercion, and Bullying at Missouri State:

[video=youtube_share;avEeswjaqaQ]http://youtu.be/avEeswjaqaQ[/video]
 
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One word..

gnostic.

the worship of man's knowledge over God.

The saddest part is there are liberal christians.
 
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I don't know about that. being a liberal christian never made me sad.
 
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The Democrat party now works hard to fight free speech.

Supreme Court faces wave of free-speech cases because they are coming from conservatives.

Once embraced by liberals, 1st Amendment arguments are now being fought against by Democrats.

This year's Supreme Court term features an unusual array of potentially powerful 1st Amendment claims but because they come from groups on the right, liberals no longer want liberty and align with the Obama administration taking the opposing side.

"Conservatives and libertarians say the role reversal at the high court reflects a larger shift in political alliances and attitudes toward government.

'The progressive mind-set sees government as a force for good,' said Ilya Shapiro, a lawyer for the libertarian Cato Institute."

That's BIG government totalitarianism Ilya. That's what liberals now like: BIG GOVERNMENT TOTALITARIANISM.


Supreme Court faces wave of free-speech cases from conservatives - latimes.com
 
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Its the classic liberal response to a challenge from the right..

name call

then shut them up.

Liberalism cannot stand debate or scrutiny. No facts, only feelings without any foundation or substance. Its why they want us shut up.

Heck if I was right I would want to debate in public all day long. Its only cowards and liars that want to shut down the opposition.

Which one are ya?
 
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Liberalism's appeal to liberals is that its an ideology of acceptance and caring for others.

Obviously by this thread it is not tolerant.

The fact that taxes collected and directed toward welfare, 70% stays to support the government, proves without a doubt the self serving principles of liberal government.

While no ideology is perfect, liberalism is anti-christian, anti-love and anti-tolerant.

I cannot think of a better definition of oxymoronic than liberal christian.

The only aspect of the ideology that I admire is their ad campaigns. So many fall for the ''good feeling'' propaganda.

Think of it, the most racist ideology in practice, garners 90% of the african american vote. Amazing.
 
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Boxed In: The Destructive Evolution of Campus Free Speech Zones

Feb 19, 2014

Joshua Bridges

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http://www.nas.org/articles/boxed_in_the_destructive_evolution_of_campus_free_speech_zones
 
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How ironic. The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), responded to a professor’s violent attack on a 16-year-old pro-life demonstrator — by condemning the demonstration itself even though it was perfectly legal.

"Chancellor blames "crusaders" for a porn teacher's violent assault on a minor."

UCSB Smears Pro-Lifers After Professor's Attack on Pro-Life Student | National Review Online

This is despicable and both the professor who committed the attack and the chancellor who supported her should be placed on leave pending a federal investigation into the violation of the student's Constitutional and human rights.



USCB professor Mireille Miller-Young (left) and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Michael D. Young

Porn professor goes berserk on campus

Mireille Miller-Young MORAL RIGHT to attack abortion foe | The Daily Caller

http://media.independent.com/news/documents/2014/03/18/UCSB-Police-Report.pdf

"Liberals" in academia should not be allowed to deny students their human and constitutional rights, attack them, rob them, and then sit back and blame them afterwards.

This is a travesty and the people in authority are the one's at fault.
 
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Liberals are nothing more then Satan worshipers. What they do proves it day in and day out.
 
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heard it said that liberals love freedom of speech until someone says something they don't like. them they cry hate speech, discrimination, etc. so a better way to say this is they want SELECTIVE freedom of speech.
 
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DAE HATE LIBERALS! Herp Derp!

Meanwhile, would it kill you 'haters of your neighbour' to crack open a Bible once in a while?
 
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If you're experiencing mental instability David, I believe the country you live in has a generous social welfare medical program that would allow you to get the help you need.


David_1 said:
DAE HATE LIBERALS! Herp Derp!

Meanwhile, would it kill you 'haters of your neighbour' to crack open a Bible once in a while?
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David_1 said:
DAE HATE LIBERALS! Herp Derp!

Meanwhile, would it kill you 'haters of your neighbour' to crack open a Bible once in a while?
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Please give us information where liberalism is truly tolerant and supports free speech. A story. Some facts.

Calling people names may be effective but what you just did David_1 proves the point of this thread and the hypocrisy of the supposedly tolerant ideology of liberalism.

All ya gotta do is let liberals talk.
 
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