Student Punished for “All Lives Matter” ThoughtCrime
A stirring tale of WrongThink eliminated:
In the emotional hours after five police officers were shot and killed during a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas last month, Rohini Sethi vented on Facebook.
“Forget #BlackLivesMatter;” wrote Sethi, the vice president of the Student Government Association at the University of Houston. “More like AllLivesMatter.”
This is not allowed, and she has been suspended from her post and ordered to a re-education camp:
“Her post and subsequent actions were very divisive,” student body President Shane A. Smith told The Washington Post. “It caused some in our student body to become very upset with her. They lost faith in her ability to represent them because they felt that she did not understand or respect the struggles in their lives.”
On Wednesday, in a crowded Student Government Association meeting, student leaders gave Smith temporary power to sanction Sethi. Smith complied with their request that he suspend her. Sethi also offered to take a three-day cultural sensitivity workshop, Smith said.
“Offered.”
I’d want to see an organization like FIRE get involved, but Ms. Sethi has already caved and acknowledged her “wrongdoing” in engaging in the ThoughtCrime of saying “all lives matter” when all right-thinking people know to reserve their concern for the lives of people with a particular skin color. Jonathan Turley reports that she has issued a statement of apology:
I have chosen to take these steps on my own because of the division I’ve created among our student body,. I may have the right to post what I did, but I still should not have. My words at the time didn’t accurately convey my feeling and cause many students to lose their faith in me to advocate for them. I will always continue to learn and be ready to discuss these issues.
It was easy to beat her into submission, apparently. But then, it generally is . . . more than most people would like to acknowledge.
Ding.
Patterico (bcf524) — 8/12/2016 @ 7:32 amGreetings:
I grew up in the Bronx of the ’50s and ’60s. Back there and then, there was a bit of a local folk tradition that dealt with situations in which someone wanted you to do something you really didn’t want to do. The verbal expression used to designate such situations went “Fine, you want me to do that, you kick my ass and I’ll do it.” Useful tool that.
11B40 (6abb5c) — 8/12/2016 @ 7:43 amWhoever controls the education controls the future.
Rev. Hoagie® (0f4ef6) — 8/12/2016 @ 7:46 amI have no sympathy whatsoever for her. She is a politician. She offended her constituency. The sad thing is that some day she may be a “real” pandering politician and be elected to a government office.
I do have sympathy for the Texas taxpayers who subsidize this [redacted].
nk (dbc370) — 8/12/2016 @ 7:52 amIs it any wonder that after our kids fill their minds with five or six years of this tripe, while accumulating a student loan debt in the low six figures, that they don’t have the capacity for retaining useful knowledge nor the time to engage in beneficial life experiences? And is it truly puzzling that employers would prefer to hire immigrants from India rather than take a chance on the garbage that our university system spews out upon our society?
BobStewartatHome (f2b3a5) — 8/12/2016 @ 8:18 amblack lives matter is gayer than Mark Foley doing an olympic event at the olympics
happyfeet (28a91b) — 8/12/2016 @ 8:30 amsay for example swimming
happyfeet (28a91b) — 8/12/2016 @ 8:31 amI propose we refer to the movement by a more accurate title. Only Blacks Matter.
But the Free Speech aspect is a bit more complicated. She holds an official position with the SGA, with an expectation that her public comments adhere to the SGA positions. If she had posted a “Death to Cops”, and was not disciplined by the SGA, we would be criticizing the SGA, and rightfully so.
kishnevi (158466) — 8/12/2016 @ 9:06 amThe destruction of our nation is on schedule.
SPQR (8c016f) — 8/12/2016 @ 9:08 amFifty years ago (wow, that long) sensitivity training was popular. Pushed by the black crowd. At my work place they required everyone to attend. I told them “I grew in Philadelphia. I had my sensitivity training then. I will quit before I do any more.” They did not make me attend. You have to put your foot down to stop this crap.
Jim (a9b7c7) — 8/12/2016 @ 9:56 am8. kishnevi (158466) — 8/12/2016 @ 9:06 am
Sammy Finkelman (490095) — 8/12/2016 @ 10:06 amAn apology wasn’t enough for them. They are hardly finished with her. She has to attend 3 “re-education” classes and then give a public speech on what she’s learned.
Give an inch and they take a mile.
Tanny O'Haley (c674c7) — 8/12/2016 @ 10:41 amThe reason fighting political correctness is so important is that when put into practice by powerful people, it prevents important truths from being told. Some people think it’s simply about getting away with offending whining liberals. Those people are stupid. One of the things that pisses me off about Trump is that he’s given fighting PC a bad name.
L.N. Smithee (b84cf6) — 8/12/2016 @ 10:44 amGoldsteinism just creeps up on you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyR51MqOl5I
Kevin M (25bbee) — 8/12/2016 @ 10:59 amI highly recommend Michael Radford’s “1984“. It captures the flavor of Orwell rather remarkably. Filmed in 1984, it was Richard Burton’s last film.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 8/12/2016 @ 11:04 amTanny, I think she denounced herself and offered to submit to a “cultural sensitivity workshop” in hopes of retaining her position.
This is right out of Mao’s cultural revolution, but so far without the death by prolonged torture. The progressive mind is one of the constants in the human experience. It transcends race, culture and time.
BobStewartatHome (f2b3a5) — 8/12/2016 @ 11:07 amGood one, krishnevi. It’s so true: Only Black Lives Matter.
Maybe Jonathan Turley or FIRE can talk some sense into her. She’s very young and seems capable of learning.
Patricia (5fc097) — 8/12/2016 @ 1:18 pmWell I’m in an especially bad mood today so take my comment with that in mind….
We are going to have to be shooting some of these bastards within a decade.
SPQR (a3a747) — 8/12/2016 @ 4:41 pmwell I dubbed them #somelives matter, because the victims of crime, in baltimore, nyc, la, apparently don’t to them, only those in confrontations with police,
narciso (732bc0) — 8/12/2016 @ 5:46 pmLike Giuliani said: “If black lives matter, why do you kill each other so much?”
nk (dbc370) — 8/12/2016 @ 5:49 pmSince their agenda has turned out to be a laundry list of grievances, they are merely another advocacy group for special treatment. Which is why I call them Only Blacks Matter, and drop the word Lives out.
kishnevi (8ce7fb) — 8/12/2016 @ 5:59 pmi did laundry today and i’m not some black lives matter gaymo
i just like knocking it out before the weekend starts
happyfeet (28a91b) — 8/12/2016 @ 6:03 pmNegro Lives Don’t Matter and Black Lives Don’t Matter and just maybe African American Lives could matter, but no negro or black in America has any direct relationship with Africa.
PTS (ce7fc3) — 8/12/2016 @ 6:53 pmWell, I know that’s not true since I have a friend last name Nto who came from Ghana. He’s been an American for two years now so I figure he’s an authentic African American. But actually I don’t understand what a “direct relationship” could be. If a guy’s last name is Morelli does he have a “direct relationship” to Italy? I was born here as were the last twelve generations of my family so I guess I’m a native American. But do I still have a “direct relationship” to Prussia and Ireland?
Rev. Hoagie® (0f4ef6) — 8/12/2016 @ 7:12 pmthis is all about setting the predicate for reparations, they pushed for that initially but september 11th got in the way, so they had to discredit the entire war on terror,
narciso (732bc0) — 8/12/2016 @ 7:17 pmMy life matters. Your life matters. All lives matter.
What is the alternative construct?
Well, except for select [wholly innocent] human lives when we have no voice to protest and no Arms to defend ourselves.
[class] diversity schemes (i.e. “skin-color” orientated discrimination) are divisive.
n.n (c31c4d) — 8/12/2016 @ 7:18 pmwiggle giggle lives are not matter
everyone wants to do stinkypig on them!
it’s a bad situation for them lil guys there’s no way around it
happyfeet (28a91b) — 8/12/2016 @ 7:40 pmI like it when they eat their own. I want to hand them some sriracha sauce.
nk (dbc370) — 8/12/2016 @ 7:49 pmi just get a sad feeling
happyfeet (28a91b) — 8/12/2016 @ 7:50 pmYou’re a coward. I was treasurer of the Student Government in college when 9/11 happened. We had a memorial as some students parents were murdered when the buildings where toppled by terrorists. The cowardly admin told us in the SGA to not say a word and make the event silent and “non-political.”
I ignored that decision and gave comfort to the classmates I knew that were suffering. Instead of being a coward, you need to do the right thing.
NJRob (a07d2e) — 8/12/2016 @ 7:54 pmShe could have told the SGA to take their grievances and stick them in their reparations. She didn’t. She wants to go along and get along. If she won’t fight for her positions, let her assume the ones they want her to.
nk (dbc370) — 8/12/2016 @ 8:05 pmharvardtrash ted says you don’t have to do the right thing as long as you listen to your little voice inside
that’s your conscience!
if your conscience says to do stinkypig on the supreme court, then that’s what’s right for you
it’s all about the feels
happyfeet (28a91b) — 8/12/2016 @ 8:06 pmherein the lesson:
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/35028.html
narciso (732bc0) — 8/12/2016 @ 8:09 pmTrump is a revolutionary!
LBascom (0b9b35) — 8/12/2016 @ 8:19 pmhe’s so good
happyfeet (28a91b) — 8/12/2016 @ 8:22 pmAnybody who thinks Trump will appoint pro-life judges ….
He will appoint pro-Kelo (that’s eminent domain for private use) judges.
Not that I want him to appoint pro-life judges. If Roe v. Wade had happened in 1943 instead of 1973, we wouldn’t be facing all the problems we’re facing now.
He will, likely, appoint judges who will uphold the Second Amendment right to a concealed carry permit for people who “donate” $100,000 to the New York Police Athletic League.
nk (dbc370) — 8/12/2016 @ 8:25 pmHow the hell did we get to Trump on this thread, anyway? If you told Trump “SGA” he’d say, “Yeah, I got a loan for $150,000 from them after 9/11”, thinking it was the SBA.
nk (dbc370) — 8/12/2016 @ 8:30 pmanother example of enemy action,
http://www.dailywire.com/news/8349/7-things-you-need-know-about-brendan-dassey-aaron-bandler
and when they kill again, what will the answer be oops,
narciso (732bc0) — 8/12/2016 @ 8:38 pmThese SNOWFLAKES are going to feel the hurt someday. They are JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT FASCISTS.
GUS (30b6bd) — 8/12/2016 @ 9:56 pmWho grow up to be real fascists. As individuals they are NOTHING. Not one of the PRETEND adults could withstand any critical debate of their view points, so they USE THEIR POWER to shut down dissent. The shoe will be on the other foot someday.
The CEAUSESCU’S found out. THE HARD WAY.
Hello nk. Do you think for a moment that Donald Trump is as INCAPABLE, UNABLE, DISHONEST, or EVIL as RODHAM. If you say YES, you’re kidding yourself. You are offered the following, AND YOU MUST CHOOSE ONE. An EXTRA LARGE SCHIT SANDWICH, with CHEESE (Rodham), or a bowl of cold gruel. (Trump)
Pick one or you get the other. Trump has a many many great successes in life, and several failures.
Rodham has a trail of DISHONOR and LIES.
Choose wisely NK, and BON APPETIT.
GUS (30b6bd) — 8/12/2016 @ 10:00 pmYou see, all lives matter, but some matter more than others.
Orwell had it right in “Animal Farm.”
The ethinicracy uber alles.
Simon Jester (eb25bd) — 8/12/2016 @ 10:05 pmhe had it long before, as the quote suggests, the molotoc/ribbentrop pact covered a lot of sins, as did it’s rupture, he got minitrue from his work at the bbc world service,
narciso (732bc0) — 8/12/2016 @ 10:10 pmSimon, I equate the LIBTARD/COMMIE funded “BLACK LIVES MATTER” with…The MFM and LOW INFO VOTERS.
GUS (30b6bd) — 8/12/2016 @ 10:44 pmThe NARATIVE is WAY WAY WAY WAY TOO SEXXXXSEEE!!! The PRO/LIB world is suckering the IDIOTS into believing this is an HONEST and in some way LEGITIMATE cause du Lib. Just like the FLAGELLATING upon Obama being elected, the LIBTARD WORLD wants desperately to CLEANSE THEMSELVES from cultural ORIGINAL SIN. Doesn’t matter if the CAUSE is a FILTHY LIE, or the CANDIDATE is a HALF BLACK HALF WIT who has accomplished JACK DIDDLY in his life. WE FEEL GOOD BECAUSE WE ARE SUPPORTING SOME MAKE BELIEVE CAUSE.
putting it another way, if the problem is provocation by law enforcement, then the law is unjust and should be broken, if the problem is criminality among a certain cohort, and other dysfunctional behavior, than those issues need to be addressed, now which road will they take?
narciso (732bc0) — 8/12/2016 @ 10:51 pmNegro Lives Don’t Matter and Black Lives Don’t Matter
Spoken like a core Trumpie.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 8/12/2016 @ 11:57 pmLet me not fall easily in this category.
The tear drop tail lights tell me…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLFTO0Bx9-E
…mebbe the builder went on create a wilder Wildcat and surprise a Zero.
Attention to detail candidate, attention to detail.
Steve57 (3ee6a4) — 8/13/2016 @ 2:21 amhttp://www.ebay.com/bhp/tear-drop-tail-lights
Yeah.
Steve57 (3ee6a4) — 8/13/2016 @ 3:19 amhttp://www.collingsfoundation.org/aircrafts/grumman-fm-2-wildcat/
Hoist a few for the escorts.
Steve57 (3ee6a4) — 8/13/2016 @ 4:27 amI believe the Wright Cyclone 1820 was lighter than the Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp
R-1830
http://www.airplanesandrockets.com/motors/wright-cyclone-9-radial-engine-monogram.htm
Definitely more powerful.
Steve57 (3ee6a4) — 8/13/2016 @ 5:19 amhttps://s.yimg.com/fz/api/res/1.2/_BJQRXzrmc9igkufUQ6qQg–/YXBwaWQ9c3JjaGRkO2g9NjUwO3E9OTU7dz05MzY-/https://www.flyinglegends.com/medias/2014/04/3-Grumman-Wildcat-FM-2-Pic1.jpg
Steve57 (3ee6a4) — 8/13/2016 @ 5:30 am“An explorer is deep in the jungle, being led by a native guide. They are hacking their way through dense tropical growth when suddenly drums start pounding in the distance. The explorer freezes. His guide reassures him: “no worry. drums good.” “The drums are good? No danger?” “Yes, drums good. Keep going.”
The explorer takes a deep breath and they trudge on. As the jungle gets thicker and denser, and dusk starts to fall, the drums continue, pounding louder, ever closer. The explorer asks again, “Are you sure those drums are okay… nothing to be afraid of? It sounds like they’re getting louder.”
“No. no worry. Drums good.” They continue on.
As night falls and they start to break camp, the drums become even louder, more intense. The explorer cannot shake a sense that they spell impending doom, but his guide continues to reassure him: “drums good.”
Then, just as darkness settles most completely over the jungle, the drums suddenly stop. The guide’s face goes ashen, a look of horror in his eyes! The explorer asks, “What? What’s the matter? The drums stopped– is that bad?”
The guide responds, “When drums stop, very bad! Bad thing coming! No good for anybody!”
“What!? What is it? What happens after the drums stop!?!”
The guide responds: “Bass solo.”
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/13/2016 @ 6:17 amGus, do you shout at everyone around you in your daily life?
I don’t read your rants anyway, but the ALL-CAPS ALL THE TIME IS VERY ANNOYING AND MAKES ME DISLIKE YOU.
Beldar (fa637a) — 8/13/2016 @ 7:16 amActually, Gus, on second thought: Keep up the all-caps all-the-time, please.
It does make it easier for me to instantly identify your comments for purposes of skipping over them.
Post-Tramatic-Syndrome, pud-like-a-pin-puller, hatefulfeet, foulerguy, and all you other Trumpkin shills: Please emulate Gus in this regard and start using all caps, all the time.
Beldar (fa637a) — 8/13/2016 @ 7:19 amHeh coronello, yes this folderall doesn’t make any rational sense, it’s mind arson as robin has pointed out.
narciso (732bc0) — 8/13/2016 @ 7:23 amCommon Beldar, reading the craziness is what makes it fun.
Rev. Hoagie® (0f4ef6) — 8/13/2016 @ 7:26 amcaps are so hard
i can’t even imagine how Mr. GUS does it
he’s got a lot of brio i guess
happyfeet (28a91b) — 8/13/2016 @ 7:27 amIt’s over.
http://forum.navyadvancement.com/topic/2808-service-of-transgender-sailors-and-marines-interim-guidance/
Holy sh*t they’ve got references!
Steve57 (3ee6a4) — 8/13/2016 @ 7:32 amthe US military is a sad joke anymore
happyfeet (28a91b) — 8/13/2016 @ 7:34 amespecially the navy
buncha crybabies
so embarrassed for them
happyfeet (28a91b) — 8/13/2016 @ 7:35 amSeigfried and Roy say hello. I guess.
Steve57 (3ee6a4) — 8/13/2016 @ 7:46 amthose are the tiger guys one of them got his face eated
my heart hurts for that guy it really does
happyfeet (28a91b) — 8/13/2016 @ 7:49 amGreetings:
The Village People used to sing “In the Navy”.
Dreams do come true.
11B40 (6abb5c) — 8/13/2016 @ 8:12 amIt wasn’t a dream 11B40, it was a plot.
Rev. Hoagie® (0f4ef6) — 8/13/2016 @ 8:22 amHill No! in 2016
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/13/2016 @ 8:45 amhttps://pjmedia.com/instapundit/241192/
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/13/2016 @ 8:57 amIf the BLM crew would read history and THINK… they’d realize the Democrat Party is the party that created the Ku Klux Klan. Over time, the Dems have evolved to USING instead of ABUSING the negro to stay in power.
Entitlements, brain washing, giving undeserved advantages, a sense of entitlement, etc., have all worked very, very well to create a nation of angry, shiftless, aggrieved, dependent blacks who are OWNED by the Democrat Party.
PTS (ce7fc3) — 8/13/2016 @ 9:02 amThey are panther fodder, recall the Dallas shooter’s reading list, and they enable red queen.
narciso (732bc0) — 8/13/2016 @ 9:09 amNonetheless, they need to unite, even if it’s behind manipulative Democrats, in self-defense from “persons” such as Pre-Traumatic Stress.
nk (dbc370) — 8/13/2016 @ 9:21 amClearly, this public university is hostile to the First Amendment, and if a student can be found who won’t succumb to Stockholm Syndrome in the face of unconstitutional punishment of thoughtcrimes, then FIRE will cut the university off at the knees in court.
M. Scott Eiland (046eb0) — 8/13/2016 @ 9:31 amwe can unite behind that illiterate pothead swimmer guy with all the medals
he has a winning attitude!
happyfeet (28a91b) — 8/13/2016 @ 9:32 amany further questions,
http://invisibleserfscollar.com/not-subtle-enough-enslaving-us-all-in-the-name-of-health-equity-and-well-being/
narciso (732bc0) — 8/13/2016 @ 9:33 amdidn’t get the memo,
http://www.weaselzippers.us/289143-feminist-complains-that-her-anti-capitalism-quote-isnt-making-her-any-money/
narciso (732bc0) — 8/13/2016 @ 9:44 amHa, ha, ha, very funny.
Also, having joined the one service that invented hotracking, I think that guy over there has been checking me out in the shower.
Steve57 (3ee6a4) — 8/13/2016 @ 10:18 amhttp://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15936110
Prolly gay, what with the tent and all.
Steve57 (3ee6a4) — 8/13/2016 @ 10:25 amwhat happened to where you throw hammers hither and yither
i never thought that could possibly end well
happyfeet (28a91b) — 8/13/2016 @ 10:27 amThe BBC tells us the tent is “cozy.”
“Cozy.”
We all know what that means. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Steve57 (3ee6a4) — 8/13/2016 @ 10:30 amuntapped mineral wealth
homey gotta tap that shit
happyfeet (28a91b) — 8/13/2016 @ 10:31 amTrue story. I learned to use a sextant when I was a boy scout.
And when I’d bring the subject up the listener would invariably become interested because he would think I was talking about using a sex tent. Homina homina.
Some people just have their minds in the gutter. Which no doubt explains why I got along so well in the Navy.
Steve57 (3ee6a4) — 8/13/2016 @ 10:44 amyou were in the navy when it was cool
like my uncle J
they can never take that away from you
happyfeet (28a91b) — 8/13/2016 @ 10:46 amThat weather is not for me Steve57. But those dogs are impressive so I figure the guys are twice as tuff.
Rev. Hoagie® (0f4ef6) — 8/13/2016 @ 10:58 amRemember today is Left-Hander’s Day. Have fun with that one Steve57.
Rev. Hoagie® (0f4ef6) — 8/13/2016 @ 11:02 amYou mean, Rev., it’s almost like being with someone else?
Not going there.
Steve57 (3ee6a4) — 8/13/2016 @ 12:05 pmI once tried and failed to knock the ice off a five inch gun mount with a baseball bat.
That’s got to worthy of something.
Steve57 (3ee6a4) — 8/13/2016 @ 12:07 pmAfter about five minutes I was like, “I’m going nowhere with this.”
Steve57 (3ee6a4) — 8/13/2016 @ 12:09 pmWell, this certainly isn’t something that would be helped by electing a man whose entire schtick is “I say what I want because I have free speech and you’re a dumb autist who should be fired for pissing yourself over the legal implications of every possible adverse interpretation on cue.”
Dystopia Max (76803a) — 8/13/2016 @ 12:35 pm