Colleges and Social Media: Training the Next Generation of Thought Police

krnel (78)in #mindcontrol • 6 years ago (edited)

The surge in purges from online platforms this year has been pervasive. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and more like Apple and even Microsoft servers have terminated accounts of paying customers from using their services. And rather than a major uproar from the populace against such policies, there seems to be much enthusiasm in support of this massive censorship.

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Much of the support seems to come from campuses of colleges and universities where a certain liberal-leftist aura has taken over in recent decades. Safe spaces and the war on "offenseive speech" is in full effect. Movements are pushing "to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense".

Thinking critically, let alone speaking what you think, is becoming an ancient modality of life. Anything you say "can and will be used against you" in the court of political correctness. For instance, to tout the idea that America is the land of opportunity might seem more or less realistic to conclude. Certainly in comparison to many other nations out there, many of whom are left-leaning and don't provide much opportunity. But saying this has some seeing "microaggressions".

The mere pride of being a member of a nation, and what is has accomplished or can help provide, is a "microaggression" towards all others, as some believe. How dare you think that way! This mindset will eventually seep into the power structureof politics, as the future generations become leaders, if we can call them that. In positions of power, they will be able to impose their twisted PC microaggression-targeting laws to remove offense from existenc and make everyone feel safe. Yet, they will make everyone unsafe, and turn society into a totalitarian existence.

The social media purge is a reflection of the past years of indoctrinated youth going out into the world of business and changing the face of free speech and free thought. Censorship of speech and thought will spread, like a disease, as time goes on. The thought police will grow larger. The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt gives an example of the ridiculousness of this attitude:

Some recent campus actions border on the surreal. In April, at Brandeis University, the Asian American student association sought to raise awareness of microaggressions against Asians through an installation on the steps of an academic hall. The installation gave examples of microaggressions such as “Aren’t you supposed to be good at math?” and “I’m colorblind! I don’t see race.” But a backlash arose among other Asian American students, who felt that the display itself was a microaggression. The association removed the installation, and its president wrote an e-mail to the entire student body apologizing to anyone who was “triggered or hurt by the content of the microaggressions.”

This leads to more oppression by the thought police, against the freedom of others being allowed to think or say what they want. If you dare say something someone else finds offensive, the future that lays before us might be filled with laws that impose consequences. A recent example if a teacher who wouldn't use the "approved" gender pronouns list and was fired for their position.

Another college incident again illustrates the insanity of the sanitation of of what is being allowed to be said, and the consequences being applied, without laws that officially sanction the punishment. All it takes is people in authority:

For instance, last year administrators at Bergen Community College, in New Jersey, suspended Francis Schmidt, a professor, after he posted a picture of his daughter on his Google+ account. The photo showed her in a yoga pose, wearing a T-shirt that read I will take what is mine with fire & blood, a quote from the HBO show Game of Thrones. Schmidt had filed a grievance against the school about two months earlier after being passed over for a sabbatical. The quote was interpreted as a threat by a campus administrator, who received a notification after Schmidt posted the picture; it had been sent, automatically, to a whole group of contacts. According to Schmidt, a Bergen security official present at a subsequent meeting between administrators and Schmidt thought the word fire could refer to AK-47s.

One school has recently banned the colors red and green for Christmas time because they can offend those who don't adhere to Christmas traditions. Some children are being told they can't use the phrase "Merry Christmas" when sending cards. The attack on Christmas has been ongoing for years, even decades.

We are creating pacified nations of thought controlled puppets who live in protective bubbles. Thinking then becomes pathological, not critical or robust, capable of handling psychological disturbances. We all have different viewpoints. Many prefer to punish the views others hold that aren't like their own. We then become perfect pawns in the political game and police state as we willingly turn on each other for minor offenses.

Meanwhile, the establishment of academia, police, courts, prisons and governments will grow as they gain even more power over our lives, into controlling our very thoughts and preventing us from speaking. The private sector's self-made "laws" for censorship merely seem like a visible leg to the public sector which is marching in the same direction.

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