Context For American History

[SlagAxe]

After suffering two consecutive weekends of well lettered people spewing ignorance I ran across the below article this morning. The author (Frances Dinkelspiel a graduate of Stanford University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism) seems to have spawned from an alter universe. But it is not a universe that should be ignored or dismissed in any way. It operates as a black hole that seeks to destroy everything in its path, be it the present or past. The object that is most offensive to its fragile nose is the US Constitution. What it cannot destroy it simply co-opts. I am seeing this pattern more and more often. Letting go what she has to say, or imply, about amendments 2, 8, and 14, I'll stick to the 1st for comment.

"...the original Free Speech Movement began on Sproul Plaza in 1964"

- Frances Dinkelspiel, 4/16/2017

Sproul Plaza lies within the thoughtless confines of the cesspool that is UCal Berkeley (founded in 1868) . This notion that free speech was blown out of Mother Liberty's uterus some 53 years ago on a California campus is repeated ad nauseum in the leftist doctrine.

Never mind all this historical blather:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Bill of Rights were ratified on December 15, 1791

"Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government: When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved,"

- Benjamin Franklin in The Pennsylvania Gazette

Now I do not think Ms. Dinkelspiel is a full-on retard. What she really means is free speech that adheres to the limited scope as defined by the left. That scope has had an ever smaller field of view since 1964. I do not share Ms Dinkelspiel's surprise at the skirmishes between opposing sides. It seems that is the natural progression of things. A progression that has a long way to go before maturity.

 

[Maggot]

What do you expect from a woman named "Ms. Dinkelspiel"? Really?

But dont knock Berkeley. Excellent University despite the leftist crap.

 

[SlagAxe]

But dont knock Berkeley. Excellent University despite the leftist crap.

Berkeley holds its own in the sciences, there is no doubt about that. But in the liberal arts it graduates the culturally illiterate in the same way a sewerage treatment plant pumps out sludge. That is not my own observation but that of some of my acquaintances who are graduates and have taught there. Even the esteemed Greil Marcus has lamented that while the Berkeley social science enclave long ago jettisoned western cultural as a serous topic of study they seem to have more recently shunned even pop-culture in favor of a Orwellian utopia that exists in their own minds.

 

[supercorndogs]

Yea they really add something to this country. {Sarcastic eye roll}