I am so very thankful for Bari Weiss and every person who writes for the Free Press. As an avid reader of political commentary all my adult life - I am now 69 - I have never read such honest, clear minded and thoughtful writing. You were all sent by God for such a time as this. Do not be deterred. Do not stop. Know that your words have an impact. Thank you!
The right way? I only see two wrong ways on the ballot and some pointless ways, because those candidates won't stand a frigging chance. So it won't matter whether they are right or wrong...
Whatever You do You will inevitably end up with a senile thug in the White House again.
Sitting in Jerusalem, with 2 sons in the army, I want to tell you that "The Free Press" is a breath of sanity. I have become dependent upon it. Thank-you!
Fingers crossed for their safe return to you after successful missions. I'd pray, but I am an atheist. Still, on humanitarian grounds and a clear picture of history, I stand with Israel.
You can pray RBM. It is okay. That's what your crossed fingers are anyway. I read once that just the process of developing a prayer helps us clarify our thought process and have used personal prayer ever since.
Where were these glassy eyed, foam at the mouth, brutal, antisemites, when Isis was murdering, torturing and raping the Yazidis and anybody that wasn't Sunni Muslim? The ISIS Muslims raped women, little boys and girls and men. They were equal opportunity rapists.
Where were these noble antisemite demonstrators when the religion of peace in Iran was murdering Bahais by the hundreds? Where were they when the Sudanese Muslims were raiding Christian villages murdering everybody except small children and women who they sold into slavery?
This is selective outrage directed at only one group and that is Jews. I thought left wing loons were Woke and all about DEI. Maybe these rioters need to include DEI counselors in each of their hate chapters all over the US.
I guess Woke and DEI counselors are for everybody except Democrat hate groups.
I think the religion of peace Koran mentions killing Jews three times.
One quote:
"Judgment Day will not come before the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Jews will hide behind the rocks and the trees, but the rocks and the trees will say: Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him — except for the gharqad tree, which is one of the trees of the Jews.”
Hamas did not get 100% of the vote in the last election, so obviously there are some people in Gaza who disagree with them. And just as obviously, there is no such thing as Palestine.
according to Wikipedia, in the 2006 election, "The result was a victory for Hamas, contesting under the list name of Change and Reform, which received 44.45% of the vote and won 74 of the 132 seats, whilst the ruling Fatah received 41.43% of the vote and won 45 seats."
I don't understand how they got less than 50% of the votes, but ended up with almost 2/3 of the seats, but it could explain why the Democrats are interested in them...
But after reading this consortium of articles I see pretty clearly why. Edited to clarify see why they feel that way, not see why Jews should be eradicated.
The biggest lie is that they hate the Jews because of Israel. As a group, the "Palestinians" have been anti-Semites before there was an Israel, following the lead of their "spiritual leader" The Grand Mufti, who begged his buddy Hitler to murder all the Jews living in the Middle East.
Yes. As were the Germans. It’s still not complex no matter how deceptively you bastardize scripture to fit your nefarious personal agenda (true blasphemy).
Say what you like about Trump, but he was the best friend Israel ever had in the White House, he is not an anti-semite, and he turned Quaseem Solemani into a greasy spot on the ground.
Many of the self-deluded on the Left are beginning to come to this conclusion, though I think far too many of them lack the cahones to publicly admit they had been brainwashed and so very, very wrong all this time. At the very least they are beginning to reacquaint themselves with the concept of critical thinking.
While I don't expect Bari to start sporting a MAGA hat any time soon, observing her abandon her once (and until very recently) committed embrace of pure TDS is a very good sign. The babbling, senile, and corrupt to the core Muppet currently posing as President is not only an existential threat to the U.S. but to the entire world. History will not be kind, nor should it be. I only hope the world can survive the next 15 months.
I do not care what they publicly acknowledge at this point. It is not as if they can undo the damage caused go this point. I care what they do in secret when they cast their next ballots.
TGIF is always interesting, and along with Nellie, I will watch the mainstream Sunday shows Margret Brennan and Kristen Welker to see how they frame this issue on Sunday. Brennan was a full-throated ceasefire with the deaths of Palestinians last week. Seeing how they spin things is worth the time lost listening to their less-than-stellar questions.
Sliding academic standards: where to begin? I spent last night talking with a friend who teaches pharmacy students at a prestigious university. She said it’s horrific what they don’t know and the faculty are pressured to inflate grades and pass students who deserve to fail. There are pharmacy students out there right now filling jobs who literally don’t know what an antihistamine is. One such student went on to give a person the wrong medication for their 2 year old. People will die because of this. At another university, a colleague says that the old standards of deadlines and expectations is getting flak as being “white supremacist pedagogy,” and they’re supposed to do away with pesky things like standards and timeliness. Professors hate their jobs and aren’t given the license to do them. Students grow stupid and entitled. We are entering a world of pain.
Where the first hand to always go up will ask "Will this be on the final?" American universities long ago abandoned academics for Marxist indoctrination. The first institution to fall.
As a result we now have two consecutive generations of young Americans who are profoundly ignorant of basic adult life, let alone any marketable skills, while brainwashed in toxic ideologies and deeply arrogant and narcissistic. Many are drowning in student debt for the privilege of such conditioning. Then they expect the people who actually do the work that keeps the nation moving to pay off their loans for useless degrees in contrived cis-gender grievance studies.
A majority of Zoomers (18 - 24) openly support and embrace Hamas terrorism and the slaughter of Israeli children.
Case in point: At my daughter’s high school, she doesn’t worry about being on time in the mornings because she says no one cares if she’s late. She’s been late and they still don’t mark her tardy.
Mine attended school from 1993 until 2010. Attendance was ruthlessly enforced because failure to do so meant the district might lose a dime. My guess is that the numbers are just misreported now. Same is true of crime stats which rely on data from individual law enforcement agencies (usually police departments, sheriff's departments and university police departments). These departments understand what crime data will get them funded or defunded and so report accordingly. Same issue with Covid data.
I might suggest that these professors take a stand. Yes they may lose their jobs. But the alternative is being complicit in destroying what is left of the credibility of our degree system. I'd like to think I would take the high road...but that is easy to say from over here where I don't have to make that choice.
Yeah, it’s not that easy. These are people who have put 20 plus years of their lives and probably well over 100k invested to get these jobs. They had to go through years of interviews and beat out hundreds of applicants. They moved their families, who depend on them, for the job. Not to mention that many academics are unemployable if you don’t have an academic job. If you don’t have the financial support system to get creative and try something else out, it’s a death sentence for your family. This is why, when push comes to shove, most will be quiet and do what they’re told although they don’t like it. Faculty are in a terrible place. It’s the admin who must hold the line, but they don’t because all colleges need money and ultimately it’s the kids and their parents holding the purse strings.
Oh, I fully understand why many people in difficult situations make bad choices. And as I said, I don't know that I would have the strength to do it either. However, I would know that I am then part of the problem.
As for the admins....there I disagree. Colleges have had an ENORMOUS jump in the number of admin, which is likely a leading cause to the cost increase. I have read about schools with nearly 1:1 ratios of students to admins. I more and more believe that the admins (at least some of them) are the actual issue. The students aren't going to leave just because you won't give them A's. And even if they do, there are more right behind them. I could theorize on why this is being done. But I do not believe that it is just because they are worried about mad students.
They’re worried about losing money. That’s what it all comes down to. And yes - there are too many of them, and they have overinflated salaries, which is contributing to the money problem.
“The horror of the 50-day conflict between Israel and Hamas is known to everyone here.”
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Stop doing this!!!
It is NOT Israel vs. Hamas. It is Israel vs. Palestine. Stop separating out Hamas like the Palestinians are just innocent victims who aren’t part of this. Your average Palestinian is 10x worse, in terms of genocidal mania, than the most angry Tiki Torch guy.
It’s Israel vs. Palestine or Hamas vs. IDF. Those are your two options; and really it’s just the first option.
Islam is a supremacist religion whose only goal to dominate any society that it seeps into. In the Koran it says that all unbelievers should be killed. Of course it makes an exception for what it calls “People of the Book” which are identified as Christians and Jews. But Christians and Jews must first recognize the supremacy of Islam, submit to it and finally must pay the “Jizya” tax. If you are unwilling to do this, then you are killed. Any Muslim who says this isn't true is lying, which by the way, is permissible and even encouraged in Islam if in doing so advances Islam. Islam is incompatible with western secular democracy, but most liberals and progressives don't get this until about 10 seconds before being beheaded.....
I’ve long wondered whether the “trans for Palestine” and “gays for Palestine” and “atheists for Palestine” people have the first clue what would happen to them if Islam had its way.
The Gays for Palestine banner has the image of a gay man tied to a chair being thrown off a roof by a Muslim terrorist shouting "Allu Akbar!" while the gay shouts back "I still support your struggle, brother!" before hitting the ground. It just doesn't get any more self loathing than that.
I have never been so ashamed to be gay as I am today. These young gays are twisted.
I like this okay but they are not Palestinian. There is no such thing. Palestine was a location designated by Rome in the first or second century to punish Jews for having revolted. So these people are Arabs we now refer to as Palestinians.
“And still. People all over the world—especially young, cool-looking people, with nose rings and neon backpacks—are ripping them down.”
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What’s cool about nose rings? They are as ugly as neck tattoos. But the antisemitism of Wiseman’s Muslim friend, while predictable, is much uglier.
To the leftists on this site who share this ignorance about Islam I highly recommend Raymond Ibrahim’s book Sword And Scimitar.
The objective of Hamas is to eliminate Israel. Raping, beheading and killing are a means to that end. The so-called Palestinians in Gaza elected Hamas. They are not civilized enough to have a country or to live next door to history’s most persecuted people. Israel should do itself and the world the service of eliminating the government of these so-called Palestinians.
Unfortunately we live in a world in which blacks can be accused of "acting white" for speaking proper English or excelling in school. I wish it weren't so, but it is, and that is just from within the black community itself. Add in your plain old racism, and there is a persistent problem of perception of black intelligence that we don't see with most other ethnic groups and I have absolutely seen this reflected in educational standards and expectations over my 30 year career.
It's not surprising to see Muslims ripping down hostage posters. We hold them to very low standards of ethics and morality. Murder and deceit are part and parcel of this odious ideology.
But a recent poll suggesting that 60% of Americans under 22 support Hamas is quite disturbing. Even if it's inaccurate, how could they have found 600 out of 1000 young people who would admit to supporting murderers?
In some ways, it’s not surprising at all. They are the first generation raised with social media, tribalism, and vitriolic hyperbole. When I think about the past few years, I think about the constant escalation of vocabulary and name-calling. “Genocide”, “Hitler”, “fascist”, “silence is violence”, “no justice no peace”, “oppression”, the list goes on and on. We’re teaching them that escalation, whether emotional (Twitter mobs) or physical (“mostly peaceful protests”), is a winning strategy.
At this point, I’m not sure there is any way to reverse this. We have dehumanized humanity to such an extent that there may be no coming back from it.
The story about grade inflation realy is one of major ills plaguing our universities. Good reason for it is that we have been conditioned that everyone is "exceptional" when in reality such people are very rear and majority of people are average which is good.
One of the reasons why grade inflation contiues, is insistence of many employers to see grade transcripts, which is beyond stupid in itself, because due to grade inflation grades have become minigles. One way to fix this, is simply to stop issuing grade transcripts after graduation, and grade (real ones) should only matter if person is prosuing academic career and wants to do PHD or something like that. For normal careers, companies should be able to provide their own evaluations, what good future employees will be. Also for majority of jobs, there shoulnt be requisite to have college diploma at all.
From the Language Scold: Why are we calling it "grade inflation?" Records falsification maybe? Gonna have to come up with something with a bit more bite and/or snap to it. Suggestions invited.
Pretty soon a college degree will be worth nothing more than a ticket stub from Lollapalooza. Both have fond memories of some raging parties and great music, sure, but neither convey any sort of accreditation or marketable skill. The degree of course will carry a much heavier price tag.
People join stupid causes IMHO based on a complete useless feelings of who they are. No confidence to think for themselves, no joy in being an individual, and a completely stupid belief that by joining evil, the evil will accept you and not come for you. Wrong, evil will always destroy those who help put it in power. This calba women thinks she is trendy, but in reality she and her so called friends are the sad result of what has happened to so many youth of today. No respect for self and thinking I am only good if others accept me and the more stupid the cause, the better. You celebrate children, mothers, families, and old folks being killed, tortured, raped, be-headed and think it is in the cause of freedom. Hello stupid person, Hamas much like the PLO only want the people to suffer as it gives them propaganda. Neither of these groups are capable of running any territory that benefits the average person. Their own people are useful for breeding killers for the cause and showing the suffering to blame others. Evil must be destroyed and that includes Hez and the shit head old smelly guy in Iran.
For Kendrick, sorry you had to learn the goals today is for schools and colleges to actually dumb down the population. Stupid people and brain washed are much easier to control. Nothing else would explain why we are supposedly educating people who have no clue of the world, their own country, and are going to be some lazy ass complaining employees until they are fired. Expecting the teachers unions or college administrators to have a back bone is like asking Joe if he's honest. Of course, as long as you pay me.
As for anyone who could support the Hamas situation after interviews with survivors like Sofie, you really have to wonder if we should adopt Canada's EOL based on stupidity?
Keep the honest stories coming and remember, if you voted for Slow Joe, thanks you got us where we are today. Nice job:(
If the GOP wins Congress again, I think it would be wise to have primetime hearings to show the link between the student loan programs and the largess and fraud at many colleges in the country. The goal should not be to cancel student debt but rather set funding based on school results. The grade inflation article shows the pattern. The minority gets a loan, is taught nothing, and gets good grades since they don't know anything or have a major that can't translate to a career that pays a good living. The student then has no income, can't pay the loan, becomes more bitter, and needs the crushing debt taken off their shoulders. The school that did this is riding high as they have the money and spend it on administrators whose job is to keep the grades up and the indoctrination factory continuing.
One can't see that more with the "educated" Palestinian woman tearing down posters. I hope someone makes this an issue next year and does something about it in 2025. It's time for this money laundering to end.
Student loans should not be backed by the government. If a bank or lending company wishes to take a chance on some Gender Studies major paying back her $100K, it's their funeral. Should not be put on the taxpayer.
I used to think Gender Studies degrees would not result in paying jobs too. Turns out they result in paying jobs in HR, school administration, unions, and DEI organizations. They are running (and ruining) the lives of many people.
Yes, that's true. Luckily, things may be changing. I read recently in the WSJ, I think, that DEI departments at private companies are being quietly downsized or eliminated. There seems to be a recognition that (1) it's a total waste of money in these uncertain times, and (2) it angers the employees and stockholders.
Then the paying students end up subsidizing the deadbeats. These universities for the most part have little sense of reality. To them, money is an abstract thing.
In 2021, Bard College, a small woke school in New York state, received a $500 million donation from the Soros Foundation. They published a gleeful announcement, crowing about how useful this money was going to be, all the wonderful things they were going to build and do. Not a word about any strings attached. Not a single sentence about "but what did we do to deserve this?" Obviously Soros has a political agenda with his money; he didn't just give it to them randomly.
He is bad but the Democrats are far worse. I voted for him twice, I just want a person who is a better leader and less of jack ass. Is that too much to ask?
I made the same observation years ago when the first "Girls Gone Wild" videos came out and realized these children would soon be entering the workforce. I was not proven wrong.
It would be wonderful if even a few of the so called "progressives" would take the time to read some of these articles, but sadly we know that it is highly unlikely that could happen. Literacy and curiosity definitely are not the hallmarks of these people.
So what I think you are insinuating is NYC will soon be taken over by an Islamofascist, Socialist, BLM alliance from hell managed out of NYU Law school. I predicted all of this about 5 years ago.
Intellectually the shift is disturbing but I can’t deny that my instinctive reaction to anything happening in those large leftist cities is somewhere between apathy and disgust.
I am so very thankful for Bari Weiss and every person who writes for the Free Press. As an avid reader of political commentary all my adult life - I am now 69 - I have never read such honest, clear minded and thoughtful writing. You were all sent by God for such a time as this. Do not be deterred. Do not stop. Know that your words have an impact. Thank you!
now if we can just get to vote the right way
The right way? I only see two wrong ways on the ballot and some pointless ways, because those candidates won't stand a frigging chance. So it won't matter whether they are right or wrong...
Whatever You do You will inevitably end up with a senile thug in the White House again.
Sitting in Jerusalem, with 2 sons in the army, I want to tell you that "The Free Press" is a breath of sanity. I have become dependent upon it. Thank-you!
Daniel
God be with you all.
Fingers crossed for their safe return to you after successful missions. I'd pray, but I am an atheist. Still, on humanitarian grounds and a clear picture of history, I stand with Israel.
You can pray RBM. It is okay. That's what your crossed fingers are anyway. I read once that just the process of developing a prayer helps us clarify our thought process and have used personal prayer ever since.
👏👏👏👏👏👏
Praying for you all
“After the woman finishes scraping the remainders of the poster from the street post, while muttering the word calba, the Arabic word for dog”
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Diversity is our strength.
and on top of all that, she's a litterbug.
I hate to admit this, in light of the seriousness of the piece, but I thought the same thing.
You have made me laugh. I need that in these grim times. Thanks.
Where were these glassy eyed, foam at the mouth, brutal, antisemites, when Isis was murdering, torturing and raping the Yazidis and anybody that wasn't Sunni Muslim? The ISIS Muslims raped women, little boys and girls and men. They were equal opportunity rapists.
Where were these noble antisemite demonstrators when the religion of peace in Iran was murdering Bahais by the hundreds? Where were they when the Sudanese Muslims were raiding Christian villages murdering everybody except small children and women who they sold into slavery?
This is selective outrage directed at only one group and that is Jews. I thought left wing loons were Woke and all about DEI. Maybe these rioters need to include DEI counselors in each of their hate chapters all over the US.
I guess Woke and DEI counselors are for everybody except Democrat hate groups.
Looooooove a "feel good" they/them story.
Bwahahahahahaaa ...
Which one tore off the posters? They or them?
They both did it for them.
That is HYSTERICAL 🤣
Hah!
While hate is theirs.
In this haus we believe that
Black lives matter
Women’s rights are human rights
No human is illegal
Science is real
Love is love
Kindness is everything
Unless you’re Jewish
Then you can die
“Six Myths About Hamas
‘Hamas seeks peace.’ ‘Their rockets are harmless.’ And more lies we’ve been told for years that keep getting repeated today.”
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The number one myth about Hamas is the myth that anyone in Palestine disagrees with them.
ISLAM - The Religion of Peace
Possibly THE biggest lie on the face of the Earth
"The number one myth about Hamas is the myth that anyone in Palestine disagrees with them."
You've got THAT one right!!! I have been saying all along that there are no "innocent" Palestinians. They all assent to killing Jews.
Mohammed taught his followers to kill all people who did not accept that there is no God but Allah.
And to lie to infidels. They cannot be trusted.
I think the religion of peace Koran mentions killing Jews three times.
One quote:
"Judgment Day will not come before the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Jews will hide behind the rocks and the trees, but the rocks and the trees will say: Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him — except for the gharqad tree, which is one of the trees of the Jews.”
Hamas did not get 100% of the vote in the last election, so obviously there are some people in Gaza who disagree with them. And just as obviously, there is no such thing as Palestine.
I bet the one’s that voted against Hamas are now with Allah.
Actually they probably wanted government that was more serious about exterminating Jews than Hamas.
Yep!
In the latest "Voices" video I listened to, the speaker said that her brother was gunned down by Hamas: over 50 bullet wounds in his body.
according to Wikipedia, in the 2006 election, "The result was a victory for Hamas, contesting under the list name of Change and Reform, which received 44.45% of the vote and won 74 of the 132 seats, whilst the ruling Fatah received 41.43% of the vote and won 45 seats."
I don't understand how they got less than 50% of the votes, but ended up with almost 2/3 of the seats, but it could explain why the Democrats are interested in them...
And it is increasingly uncommon to find anyone on a college campus who disagrees with Hamas or the eradication of all Jews.
But after reading this consortium of articles I see pretty clearly why. Edited to clarify see why they feel that way, not see why Jews should be eradicated.
The biggest lie is that they hate the Jews because of Israel. As a group, the "Palestinians" have been anti-Semites before there was an Israel, following the lead of their "spiritual leader" The Grand Mufti, who begged his buddy Hitler to murder all the Jews living in the Middle East.
I think to disagree publicly is dangerous but there are still a few Christians in Gaza.
And yet they were each created in the image of God.
Yes. As were the Germans. It’s still not complex no matter how deceptively you bastardize scripture to fit your nefarious personal agenda (true blasphemy).
Once again, KD to the front, blasting away.
And your point is? So was Ted Bundy and Charlie Manson.
What's the odds of seeing a picture of Nellie sporting a red MAGA hat in tomorrows TGIF? Asking for a friend......
I really doubt it! More than likely she'll be wearing a t-shirt with an image of an old man using a walker, with the title "2024" underneath it.
Anyone who likes Newsom has a reality issue.
Say what you like about Trump, but he was the best friend Israel ever had in the White House, he is not an anti-semite, and he turned Quaseem Solemani into a greasy spot on the ground.
Many of the self-deluded on the Left are beginning to come to this conclusion, though I think far too many of them lack the cahones to publicly admit they had been brainwashed and so very, very wrong all this time. At the very least they are beginning to reacquaint themselves with the concept of critical thinking.
While I don't expect Bari to start sporting a MAGA hat any time soon, observing her abandon her once (and until very recently) committed embrace of pure TDS is a very good sign. The babbling, senile, and corrupt to the core Muppet currently posing as President is not only an existential threat to the U.S. but to the entire world. History will not be kind, nor should it be. I only hope the world can survive the next 15 months.
I do not care what they publicly acknowledge at this point. It is not as if they can undo the damage caused go this point. I care what they do in secret when they cast their next ballots.
meanwhile their boy Joe has wars over half the planet, crime straight through the roof, and pelosi inflayshun is just gutting the public.
gee such a good choice choosing from the party of slavery and jim crow and war . if you're a moron
I said yesterday I think everyone who cast a ballot for Biden bears responsibility for 10/7.
She doesn’t like Newsom, FFS. It’s literary license. It’s called sarcasm.
Oh, and mine isn't?
Sorry, musta gone over my head.
I think I like your odds better......
True.
She'll still be voting for Gavin in a heartbeat.
Gotta love that hair.
I was told by a Democrat that Newson's shit doesn't stink. How he knew this I don't know and don't want to know.
TGIF is always interesting, and along with Nellie, I will watch the mainstream Sunday shows Margret Brennan and Kristen Welker to see how they frame this issue on Sunday. Brennan was a full-throated ceasefire with the deaths of Palestinians last week. Seeing how they spin things is worth the time lost listening to their less-than-stellar questions.
"less-than-stellar questions" is being very very generous :-)
Sliding academic standards: where to begin? I spent last night talking with a friend who teaches pharmacy students at a prestigious university. She said it’s horrific what they don’t know and the faculty are pressured to inflate grades and pass students who deserve to fail. There are pharmacy students out there right now filling jobs who literally don’t know what an antihistamine is. One such student went on to give a person the wrong medication for their 2 year old. People will die because of this. At another university, a colleague says that the old standards of deadlines and expectations is getting flak as being “white supremacist pedagogy,” and they’re supposed to do away with pesky things like standards and timeliness. Professors hate their jobs and aren’t given the license to do them. Students grow stupid and entitled. We are entering a world of pain.
Where the first hand to always go up will ask "Will this be on the final?" American universities long ago abandoned academics for Marxist indoctrination. The first institution to fall.
As a result we now have two consecutive generations of young Americans who are profoundly ignorant of basic adult life, let alone any marketable skills, while brainwashed in toxic ideologies and deeply arrogant and narcissistic. Many are drowning in student debt for the privilege of such conditioning. Then they expect the people who actually do the work that keeps the nation moving to pay off their loans for useless degrees in contrived cis-gender grievance studies.
A majority of Zoomers (18 - 24) openly support and embrace Hamas terrorism and the slaughter of Israeli children.
https://www.newsweek.com/insane-number-gen-zers-support-hamass-slaughter-innocent-israelis-opinion-1837422
Case in point: At my daughter’s high school, she doesn’t worry about being on time in the mornings because she says no one cares if she’s late. She’s been late and they still don’t mark her tardy.
My kids would have been far more worried about what Mom’s reaction would’ve been had chronic tardiness been an issue.
Mine attended school from 1993 until 2010. Attendance was ruthlessly enforced because failure to do so meant the district might lose a dime. My guess is that the numbers are just misreported now. Same is true of crime stats which rely on data from individual law enforcement agencies (usually police departments, sheriff's departments and university police departments). These departments understand what crime data will get them funded or defunded and so report accordingly. Same issue with Covid data.
I might suggest that these professors take a stand. Yes they may lose their jobs. But the alternative is being complicit in destroying what is left of the credibility of our degree system. I'd like to think I would take the high road...but that is easy to say from over here where I don't have to make that choice.
Yeah, it’s not that easy. These are people who have put 20 plus years of their lives and probably well over 100k invested to get these jobs. They had to go through years of interviews and beat out hundreds of applicants. They moved their families, who depend on them, for the job. Not to mention that many academics are unemployable if you don’t have an academic job. If you don’t have the financial support system to get creative and try something else out, it’s a death sentence for your family. This is why, when push comes to shove, most will be quiet and do what they’re told although they don’t like it. Faculty are in a terrible place. It’s the admin who must hold the line, but they don’t because all colleges need money and ultimately it’s the kids and their parents holding the purse strings.
Oh, I fully understand why many people in difficult situations make bad choices. And as I said, I don't know that I would have the strength to do it either. However, I would know that I am then part of the problem.
As for the admins....there I disagree. Colleges have had an ENORMOUS jump in the number of admin, which is likely a leading cause to the cost increase. I have read about schools with nearly 1:1 ratios of students to admins. I more and more believe that the admins (at least some of them) are the actual issue. The students aren't going to leave just because you won't give them A's. And even if they do, there are more right behind them. I could theorize on why this is being done. But I do not believe that it is just because they are worried about mad students.
They’re worried about losing money. That’s what it all comes down to. And yes - there are too many of them, and they have overinflated salaries, which is contributing to the money problem.
“The horror of the 50-day conflict between Israel and Hamas is known to everyone here.”
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Stop doing this!!!
It is NOT Israel vs. Hamas. It is Israel vs. Palestine. Stop separating out Hamas like the Palestinians are just innocent victims who aren’t part of this. Your average Palestinian is 10x worse, in terms of genocidal mania, than the most angry Tiki Torch guy.
It’s Israel vs. Palestine or Hamas vs. IDF. Those are your two options; and really it’s just the first option.
Islam is a supremacist religion whose only goal to dominate any society that it seeps into. In the Koran it says that all unbelievers should be killed. Of course it makes an exception for what it calls “People of the Book” which are identified as Christians and Jews. But Christians and Jews must first recognize the supremacy of Islam, submit to it and finally must pay the “Jizya” tax. If you are unwilling to do this, then you are killed. Any Muslim who says this isn't true is lying, which by the way, is permissible and even encouraged in Islam if in doing so advances Islam. Islam is incompatible with western secular democracy, but most liberals and progressives don't get this until about 10 seconds before being beheaded.....
I’ve long wondered whether the “trans for Palestine” and “gays for Palestine” and “atheists for Palestine” people have the first clue what would happen to them if Islam had its way.
They don't because they are abysmally ignorant and have no desire to educate themselves.
They are in very good company.
The Gays for Palestine banner has the image of a gay man tied to a chair being thrown off a roof by a Muslim terrorist shouting "Allu Akbar!" while the gay shouts back "I still support your struggle, brother!" before hitting the ground. It just doesn't get any more self loathing than that.
I have never been so ashamed to be gay as I am today. These young gays are twisted.
Surely you’ve seen the meme that compares “Gays for Palestine” with “Chickens for KFC”?
I haven’t but it’s apropos!
I like this okay but they are not Palestinian. There is no such thing. Palestine was a location designated by Rome in the first or second century to punish Jews for having revolted. So these people are Arabs we now refer to as Palestinians.
“And still. People all over the world—especially young, cool-looking people, with nose rings and neon backpacks—are ripping them down.”
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What’s cool about nose rings? They are as ugly as neck tattoos. But the antisemitism of Wiseman’s Muslim friend, while predictable, is much uglier.
To the leftists on this site who share this ignorance about Islam I highly recommend Raymond Ibrahim’s book Sword And Scimitar.
The objective of Hamas is to eliminate Israel. Raping, beheading and killing are a means to that end. The so-called Palestinians in Gaza elected Hamas. They are not civilized enough to have a country or to live next door to history’s most persecuted people. Israel should do itself and the world the service of eliminating the government of these so-called Palestinians.
“What I discovered, however, was that Spelman’s high-minded rhetoric didn’t match its reality.”
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Okay so “black excellence” isn’t high-minded rhetoric; it is gutter-trash racism.
Do I need to do this? Okay. Let’s talk about “white excellence”, shall we? Oh yeah we probably shouldn’t because that would be a KKK rally.
Jesus.
Unfortunately we live in a world in which blacks can be accused of "acting white" for speaking proper English or excelling in school. I wish it weren't so, but it is, and that is just from within the black community itself. Add in your plain old racism, and there is a persistent problem of perception of black intelligence that we don't see with most other ethnic groups and I have absolutely seen this reflected in educational standards and expectations over my 30 year career.
It's not surprising to see Muslims ripping down hostage posters. We hold them to very low standards of ethics and morality. Murder and deceit are part and parcel of this odious ideology.
But a recent poll suggesting that 60% of Americans under 22 support Hamas is quite disturbing. Even if it's inaccurate, how could they have found 600 out of 1000 young people who would admit to supporting murderers?
Turns out liberals, aren't.
In some ways, it’s not surprising at all. They are the first generation raised with social media, tribalism, and vitriolic hyperbole. When I think about the past few years, I think about the constant escalation of vocabulary and name-calling. “Genocide”, “Hitler”, “fascist”, “silence is violence”, “no justice no peace”, “oppression”, the list goes on and on. We’re teaching them that escalation, whether emotional (Twitter mobs) or physical (“mostly peaceful protests”), is a winning strategy.
At this point, I’m not sure there is any way to reverse this. We have dehumanized humanity to such an extent that there may be no coming back from it.
https://www.newsweek.com/insane-number-gen-zers-support-hamass-slaughter-innocent-israelis-opinion-1837422
I saw another poll result where the supporters of Hamas were in the majority. I'll have to look for it.
The story about grade inflation realy is one of major ills plaguing our universities. Good reason for it is that we have been conditioned that everyone is "exceptional" when in reality such people are very rear and majority of people are average which is good.
One of the reasons why grade inflation contiues, is insistence of many employers to see grade transcripts, which is beyond stupid in itself, because due to grade inflation grades have become minigles. One way to fix this, is simply to stop issuing grade transcripts after graduation, and grade (real ones) should only matter if person is prosuing academic career and wants to do PHD or something like that. For normal careers, companies should be able to provide their own evaluations, what good future employees will be. Also for majority of jobs, there shoulnt be requisite to have college diploma at all.
From the Language Scold: Why are we calling it "grade inflation?" Records falsification maybe? Gonna have to come up with something with a bit more bite and/or snap to it. Suggestions invited.
Pretty soon a college degree will be worth nothing more than a ticket stub from Lollapalooza. Both have fond memories of some raging parties and great music, sure, but neither convey any sort of accreditation or marketable skill. The degree of course will carry a much heavier price tag.
People join stupid causes IMHO based on a complete useless feelings of who they are. No confidence to think for themselves, no joy in being an individual, and a completely stupid belief that by joining evil, the evil will accept you and not come for you. Wrong, evil will always destroy those who help put it in power. This calba women thinks she is trendy, but in reality she and her so called friends are the sad result of what has happened to so many youth of today. No respect for self and thinking I am only good if others accept me and the more stupid the cause, the better. You celebrate children, mothers, families, and old folks being killed, tortured, raped, be-headed and think it is in the cause of freedom. Hello stupid person, Hamas much like the PLO only want the people to suffer as it gives them propaganda. Neither of these groups are capable of running any territory that benefits the average person. Their own people are useful for breeding killers for the cause and showing the suffering to blame others. Evil must be destroyed and that includes Hez and the shit head old smelly guy in Iran.
For Kendrick, sorry you had to learn the goals today is for schools and colleges to actually dumb down the population. Stupid people and brain washed are much easier to control. Nothing else would explain why we are supposedly educating people who have no clue of the world, their own country, and are going to be some lazy ass complaining employees until they are fired. Expecting the teachers unions or college administrators to have a back bone is like asking Joe if he's honest. Of course, as long as you pay me.
As for anyone who could support the Hamas situation after interviews with survivors like Sofie, you really have to wonder if we should adopt Canada's EOL based on stupidity?
Keep the honest stories coming and remember, if you voted for Slow Joe, thanks you got us where we are today. Nice job:(
If the GOP wins Congress again, I think it would be wise to have primetime hearings to show the link between the student loan programs and the largess and fraud at many colleges in the country. The goal should not be to cancel student debt but rather set funding based on school results. The grade inflation article shows the pattern. The minority gets a loan, is taught nothing, and gets good grades since they don't know anything or have a major that can't translate to a career that pays a good living. The student then has no income, can't pay the loan, becomes more bitter, and needs the crushing debt taken off their shoulders. The school that did this is riding high as they have the money and spend it on administrators whose job is to keep the grades up and the indoctrination factory continuing.
One can't see that more with the "educated" Palestinian woman tearing down posters. I hope someone makes this an issue next year and does something about it in 2025. It's time for this money laundering to end.
Student loans should not be backed by the government. If a bank or lending company wishes to take a chance on some Gender Studies major paying back her $100K, it's their funeral. Should not be put on the taxpayer.
I used to think Gender Studies degrees would not result in paying jobs too. Turns out they result in paying jobs in HR, school administration, unions, and DEI organizations. They are running (and ruining) the lives of many people.
Yes, that's true. Luckily, things may be changing. I read recently in the WSJ, I think, that DEI departments at private companies are being quietly downsized or eliminated. There seems to be a recognition that (1) it's a total waste of money in these uncertain times, and (2) it angers the employees and stockholders.
It should be the schools who lend the money from their endowments.
If the endowment isn't big enough, but they inform their alumni of that discipline, just maybe their donations would increase.
The problems in the world are not that difficult to remedy, are they?
Then the paying students end up subsidizing the deadbeats. These universities for the most part have little sense of reality. To them, money is an abstract thing.
In 2021, Bard College, a small woke school in New York state, received a $500 million donation from the Soros Foundation. They published a gleeful announcement, crowing about how useful this money was going to be, all the wonderful things they were going to build and do. Not a word about any strings attached. Not a single sentence about "but what did we do to deserve this?" Obviously Soros has a political agenda with his money; he didn't just give it to them randomly.
These people just don't live in the real world.
And you thought that Orange Man was bad?
He is bad but the Democrats are far worse. I voted for him twice, I just want a person who is a better leader and less of jack ass. Is that too much to ask?
If you had a choice between Biden and Trump which would you choose?
Trump but if there was a viable third choice, that person. But if there is no person, then I vote for Trump for the third time.
I am curious AL do you see the multiple prosecutions of Trump as wrong/bad? Justified?
I think they are all BS. None of them have merit. I don't like him but these charges are an abuse of Justice
Wow! Here on the Free Press we are learning a whole slew of people learned nothing in College.
I made the same observation years ago when the first "Girls Gone Wild" videos came out and realized these children would soon be entering the workforce. I was not proven wrong.
Many people have learned nothing in college for many years now. Once was mostly harmless partying. Now it's deberate.
It would be wonderful if even a few of the so called "progressives" would take the time to read some of these articles, but sadly we know that it is highly unlikely that could happen. Literacy and curiosity definitely are not the hallmarks of these people.
So what I think you are insinuating is NYC will soon be taken over by an Islamofascist, Socialist, BLM alliance from hell managed out of NYU Law school. I predicted all of this about 5 years ago.
After 9/11 people in my rural area got together to buy a new fire engine for NYC.
Now? No one would give NYC a second glance if a nuke went off in Times Square.
Actually, Marie, I think it’s worse than that. People would probably cheer if a nuke went off in NYC these days.
Intellectually the shift is disturbing but I can’t deny that my instinctive reaction to anything happening in those large leftist cities is somewhere between apathy and disgust.