Victor, you're not even making sense.
Just calling them students?
Back pedaling?

I know you physically feel it in your sphincter every time someone disparages the left mindedness of college students. So your desperate retort was not unexpected.
Nor was your penchant (some might call it a habit) of blaming me for your discomfort.
Practically predictable.

But I've been consistent.

there are over 200 signatures on the petition.
I don't pretend to be a seer or read minds, but I have a feeling that at least some of those signatures belong to law students.
Maybe you know otherwise?

And it wouldn't even matter if there weren't.

The identity politics played by Harvard et al, is from the top down.

We could have discussed whether it's excessive or even if that's a bad thing.
But you chose to attack me for pointing it out.

Typical.

tailgater wrote:

No... I attack you for being inconsistent, for essentially telling your "opponents" what they think so you have something to argue, and for not being particularly bright.

You've harped on this petition multiple times now. The petition which states clearly in the opening paragraph that the dude defended a harvard economics professor (as in legal defense) in title IX issues. Who cares if some of those 200 signatures is a law student. That's a valid reason, whether you're a law student or not.

And hilariously, you complain about "identity politics" but haven't even started to explain how this plays into that nonsense. I think that's just a term you heard somewhere and wanted a reason to use it.

Then you claim the "identity politics" is played from the top down.... when this is a student petition to remove a house dean (wouldn't that be from the bottom up?)

Just stop being so terrible at logic and I won't attack you.

victor809 wrote:

How would tail be able to stop using terrible logic? But perhaps paradoxical would be more accurate. I think it is more likely that Trump will be presidential, than tail will be logical.

Speyside wrote:

Seems like these students do understand the constitution, freedom of speech. The world has passed you by and this angers you every time you see it. This is understandable. Your point of view has became obsolete, except within the group that holds the viewpoint. This group was the majority for a very long time. Now they are the minority. Year by year this minority will be smaller and smaller. Are you already a dinosaur, you just don't see it. You miss the obvious, to the majority of Americans your opinion is worthless. But you will go right on attempting to marginalize what the reality in front of you instead of trying to understand it. Our country is supposed to represent all our people, not just part of the people like you.

Speyside wrote:

Tell me how I told my opponents what they think.

tailgater wrote:

the students are protesting because of politics.

tail wrote:

I congratulate you on digging out the actual petition. And you make some valid points. But they don't dismiss what I've maintained from the beginning.

Which brings us to the top-down identity politics.
Having a grass roots petitions does not mean there isn't top-down influence. Heck, it practically proves that there is. The identity politics of Harvard University start at the top with their reactionary kowtowing to the liberal trigger dujuor.
Then, to borrow GHWB's vernacular, it trickles down to the faculty and eventually to the students. How could it not? I have to laugh. Not because you think otherwise, but because you think it proves your point!

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