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Snowflakes, so fragile.

Today, I read an article about how colleges are setting up offices intended fight bias in schools.

“When students see something that makes them uncomfortable, hurt or offended, on many campuses they can report that language to the administration — in particular, to something called a bias response team.”

What have we done to our kids to make them so sensitive to speech? My answer is that we have made them social justice warriors, or more simply communists. College administrations set up bias police forces to handle reports by students of all the hurtful language they hear on campus. These people who are so hurt by normal speech fall into the class of snowflakes.
Communists hate free speech, and they want to control the message of everything we hear. If they don’t condone it, they hate it and fight the speaker to silence him. This is in direct violation of our right to free speech.

Many times the speech reported as biased comes from foreign students who don’t fully understand our culture and have no clue about what the First Amendment is. The idea of foreign students in our colleges is a point of bias that I have a problem with. Why in the hell are we the tax payer who pay for state colleges allow these same colleges to recruit and register foreign students over our own kids? One argument I hear is that foreign students pay full-out-of-state tuition.  Isn’t this a bias against our citizens? Between out-of-state students, affirmative action, gender bias, and all the other politically correct policies held by colleges, kids born in the USA have problems getting into a state college.

Let me elaborate on these policies:

1. Out of state tuition is usually higher than in state tuition. This is a bias toward registering students with money. Most times they are from foreign countries and not just a neighboring state.
2. Affirmative Action is a bias which violates the US Constitution. It is upheld illegally by the Supreme Court only to give poor blacks kids a chance against other races. After all their great, great, great, great grandparent may have been a slave. We white people have cruelly held blacks back for several hundred years, and therefore, we need a biased law to force us to remove our bias against them.
3. Gender bias puts pressure on kids to be a different sex than they are. Some schools register more men than women, such as all men’s schools like Notre Dame. The bias is against women to become men so they too can attend a school.
4. Speech-try to say something that is against a particular group and you portend your right to free speech.

There is a simple solution to this problem of bias in schools. Purify the state schools so only residents of the state they live in may attend. Eliminate out-of-state students and foreigners.

In the case of gender let the kids who meet the entrance criteria for a given curriculum attend. If it 100% male, let it be. If 100% happen to be female let that be as well. Students who have the freedom to attend but who don’t have the credentials should not. On the other hand if a kid doesn’t meet the criterion he is not accepted. Simple. except that college people love to travel to foreign countries on the company and without foreign exchange programs they can’t. Instead we the tax payer look the other way when colleges promote these programs under the guise of improving the world.

If Iran wants Iranians to be educated let them educate their own people. If their schools are not up to our schools let them find ways to improve. Please, please don’t insist on sending your students to our schools and then make trouble by proclaiming we hold a bias against them. If you live in Indiana and don’t qualify to attend Indiana University don’t cross the border to attend the University of Illinois. Instead find a local Indiana school to learn what you want to learn. There are plenty of private schools all across America that will accept your money.

In oder to get this accomplished we the people have to insist that our state schools meet our demands.

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