A campus infected with hostility: A professor says he's been targeted for being a con
 

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/...qo5JMWRYPWPJdM

What is he and what does he believe? (The article can't be accessed in Europe!)

Convict?
Con Artist?
Condom Salesman?

I can't see the article either.

I can't see it either, but it's almost certainly "conservative", right?

I can see it! "conservative Jew"

I assumed it meant ex-convict.

Yet another US media site that can't be arsed with complying with GDPR, as if simply not collecting EU readers' personal data is somehow more difficult than diverting them to a "**** you" page....

Now to look for a pic of Katia Peria....

Dr. Perea is an Associate Professor of Sociology at CUNY (City University New York) and is currently working on her book “Girl Cartoons” due out soon!

Feminist/ Anti Jewish civil rights?

Or is this another Race Grifter Hoax?

I ask the Moderators' indulgence to quote from the OP article at length (not the entirety) due to the unusual circumstance that some forum members cannot view it.

Those last two links if you follow them are pretty eyebrow-raising. (Link 1) (Link 2)

The Anti-Goldstein faculty bloc claims that they are "fighting for a communist ‘paradise’ on earth"

Can one archive.is the articles that can't be opened in some countries? Worth a shot

The opposition POV is worth reading. At one point they boast that it took twelve of them "less than a week" to write a leaflet. With such efficiency at creating powerful weapons I'm certain they'll have their communist paradise established in much less than a hundred thousand years.

Which may be long enough for someone to explain to them why college students aren't working class.

Not necessarily so. When a kid is the first generation in his family to attend college, particularly a community college, he very likely is working class. Not all colleges are in the Ivy League, and not all kids get fat allowances from rich parents.

Lol, I thought this would be about Jordan Peterson. Because he is most definitely a con. As in "con man".

"Civil rights movement"??!

Surely many of the protestors' actions are illegal?

Yep.

Using a 13 year old girl's image in protest pamphlets without the permission of her parents will run you into all sorts of legal difficulties under child protection laws. I don't know what those laws are like in the USA, but I can tell you that if I did that in this country, I would be up in front of the judge in very short order, where I would certainly cop a very large fine, and maybe jail time.

Goldstein might already have legal recourse against Dr. Peria and her cohorts right there.

That one act of vandalism described is unambiguously illegal. The articles I'm seeing don't seem to actually reproduce or extensively quote the leaflet that was distributed, so I don't think we can know if anything in there was illegal or not. There's certainly nothing generally unlawful about calling on a university prof to be fired for expressing political beliefs that some folks find offensive.

He may have been from working class origins, but attending college moves him up to the middle class. At least while he's there. He may fail to get a middle class job and fall back to working class afterward.

17 posts in and no references to "two minutes hate". What is wrong with you people?

For someone you claim is a con, SJWs sure have trouble showing any evidence of it. It is especially satisfying to watch videos of them trying and Peterson just destroying their childish logic.

Consider it referenced. It was obvious enough. figured someone would be along sooner or later to tick the box. And I was right.

Err... that's not what Zionism is.

I know US employment laws are crap, but even this sounds like a bizarre demand.

Well, in the rest of the English-speaking world outside of the USA, maybe....

On one side you've got a guy who can't separate criticism of Israel from anti-antisemitism. On the other side, you've got people who seem to yearn for the days of the USSR, who also seem to think that Islam is inherently compatible with communism.

It seems like a group of argumentative ideologues managed to get in an argument with a lone argumentative ideologue.

That said, Goldstein does not seem to have done anything to target the members of the PFC; those that are students seem to students in good standing. Goldstein wants protection from them but there is not anything to indicate that he has sought to expel any of them.

If you think social class is that malleable, you don't know what it means. Getting a college degree might move someone into the middle class -- maybe -- but not just taking some courses.

I wouldn't call it that, but I'm not surprised that a hardcore Zionist would see it that way. I bet white nationalists also think of white nationalism as a civil rights movement for white people. I agree that it's silly, but fervent believers in these ideologies probably think that way. It makes it easier to be righteously indignant in the face of criticism.

On the other side though, you have people who say they want "a communist paradise on earth". I trust that I don't have to explain how insane that is. Communism is an Orwellian dystopia. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the Kim dynasty all show what communism really is in practice.

Well you have to remember that most SJWs seem to believe in collective racial guilt, so that 13 year old girl is as guilty of her ancestors crimes as any other People of Non-Color (Jewish Race).

Yep, that one caught my attention too. If what he says is true in the rest of the article, I don't like any of the actors in this play. If what he says is half accurate, the The PLF or whatever they call themselves are worse though.

What? I'm guessing you don't know what a community college is.

This.

Definitions of class are to some degree subjective. I consider working class to be those who work in a factory, mine, or farm all day. Not those who have time and money to attend college, even community ones, although I don't think the college in question is a community college. From that perspective I consider attending college, even community college, as movement into the middle class.

Eta: oh, I see it is a community college. For some reason I thought this was a SUNY campus. My mistake.

Maybe ... or ...

I have yet to see evidence of Paterson "destroying" any argument.

:rolleyes:

This is why I have a strong hatred of all "-isms". No Ideology has all the answers, and seldom does the truth lies at any of the extreme positions that "-isms" want to take.

The only true working society is one that is a mixture of ideals, that looks at a problem and solves with the best solution, not the one that their particular brand of "-ism" demands.

And this means that you need people from all walks of life, even those that you vehemently disagree with most of the time, because on occasion, their ideas will be the ones that fit a particular problem, and if you have brow beaten and chased them away, then you no longer have that resource when you need it later.

Attending a community college via a financial aid program, while not being able to afford both food and rent in the same month, is not "movement into the middle class". There are a lot of working class people who attend college thanks to government financial aid programs, who would not otherwise have been able to afford it.

I'm still trying to process Katia Peria. I thought the name was a joke.

No, those show what dictatorships are like in practice. It's confusing to many, apparently, but sometimes what groups say are different that what they do.

I never said the middle class was automatically better off than the working class. Going to college (and yes, that includes attending on financial aid) is something specifically designed to move one into the middle class (or better) or keep you there if already in it.

The working class people who go to college are not doing it to stay in the working class.

Class has as much to do with formal education and outlook as with money. The average journeyman plumber or electrician makes much more than the local high school English teacher who's still paying off his grad school loans, but the former would generally be considered working class and the teacher (struggling) middle class. On the other hand, if the plumber or electrician sent their kids to good schools where they did well, the kids would be middle class. Someone who grew up with college-educated professional parents will generally be considered middle-class, even if his current employment is unskilled labor. I would say social class is more a result of childhood and upbringing than your current bank balance. Again, a college degree might be a ticket into the middle class, at least historically; but someone who grew up in poverty and is able to sign up for a few classes doesn't suddenly jump up the social ladder.

I agree, that's why I say that attending college is a move towards the middle class.

Can you name a single example of communism not leading to a dictatorship?

Skepticism is an "ism" though.

You mean as in stitches?