The Political Hat

     A member of the Commission on Civil Rights, Michael Yaki, has declared that many adults are too immature to be allowed to discuss political or other matters without the kind guidance of the thought police — specifically, he refers to college students:

“I mean where do you think you can, that the university can’t deal with ensuring the route it has environment that is not oppressive or hostile because obviously a campus, especially certain types of campuses where there’s a lot of, where, that are geographically compact, that have a lot of working and living situations in a close area to create a campus atmosphere.

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“And because of that, and because of the unique nature of a university campus setting, I think that there are very good and compelling reasons why broader policies and prohibitions on conduct in activities and in some instances speech are acceptable on a college campus level that might not be acceptable say in an adult work environment or in an adult situation.”

     Such infantile minds, then, are judged to be too child-like and juvenile to be able to speak and discuss anything freely.  Not just politics, but one’s entire social environment on campus, then, must be protected from political incorrectness.

     Funny, then, how these very same students who are not to be trusted with free and open debate so as to decide for themselves, are somehow trusted to decide the same for the populace at large by voting!

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