In reply to: Useful review of how the rot set in at "elite" schools. posted by sorin69
what the hapless presidents should have said.
I think it's implied that you mean as far left as you want.
elite caviar parties. Free speech is encouraged as long as it aligns with the latest viewpoints from Vox, Huffpost, and Salon.
Back before the Internet and cell phone cameras that can now record drunken behavior and bad language at private parties, hallway conversations, and nascent sex scandals in Foggy Bottom (think of the late Wilbur Mills - link), members of Congress could get away with a heck of a lot.
No more.
If they so much as look sideways at a stranger, it's on Twitter ("X Files" as I now call it, and I refuse to sign up for it) before the parties have made it home that day or night.
All of this all caps bullshit has destroyed both the innocent and the guilty and now people are "canceled" and innocent family members are also destroyed at their places of work or school.
As W.B. Yeats so accurately foretold our future:
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
Makes you not want to get out of bed in the morning.
On further contemplation, yeah, exactly.
If it's a Bob Jones or other type university.
often takes outre (don't have an accent ague that this needs) groups or individuals for influential free exercise cases, cf. the Jehovah's Witness family, the Gobitis family, whose children's refusal to do the Pledge with its accompanying flag salute led to two famous free exercise and free speech decisions, the first one in 1940 and the second one in 1943, West Va. State Board of Education vs. Barnette, which overruled the first one.