Student Government Officials at Cornell Reportedly Threatened for Voting Against Disarming Police
"I will beat your a—, please put your address in the chat"...
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Over 99% of Cornell Faculty Political Donations Go To Democrats And Liberal PACs
Please sit down. This is going to shock you to your core, and you might lose your balance.
English Department at Cornell Votes to Change Name to ‘Department of Literatures In English’
"The name 'English Department' no longer reflects our diverse fields of study"...
Cornell ranks low in campus free speech survey, abysmal on student free expression
It's not like I told you so, but I told you so.
For years I have been documenting the increasingly oppressive atmosphere for free speech at Cornell University, including shout-downs and disruptions of conservative and/or pro-Israel speakers and events. That atmosphere now is in overdrive with a push from the top-down of the admninistration to turn the campus into an exercise is activism, Cornell University takes a major step towards compulsory racial activism for faculty, students, and staff.
Cornell Faculty Coalition Calls for Race-Based Hiring, Promotion, and Curriculum (Update)
Cornell University has joined a growing list of universities embracing "antiracist" activism, a euphemism for race-based advocacy.
Cornell Students Petition for Expulsion of Freshman TikTok Star for Flouting Coronavirus Rules
“The people who you wouldn’t expect to snitch will snitch”...
St. Louis Prosecutor Re-opened Michael Brown Case, Will Not Bring Charges
I was not aware that, despite a grand jury decision not to indict in 2014 and a Justice Department investigation that cleared officer Darren Wilson in the killing of Michael Brown, a St. Louis prosecutor had reopened the case.
“cancel culture is meant to silence the people who don’t have protection, who don’t have power, who don’t have a platform”
On Friday, July 24, 2020, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by FOX Business' Gerry Baker on "WSJ at Large" regarding cancel culture.
The interview was enjoyable for at least a couple of reasons.
Portland protesters chant fabricated Black Lives Matter “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” slogan
Trigger Warning: This Post Contains Insensitive Truth Telling. Proceed at your own risk.
Hey, remember all the way back to the first week of June 2020? It seems like it was 7 years ago, but it was only 7 weeks ago. Oh my, how much has transpired.
Polling: Cancel Culture Is Real and Silences Conservatives Most
Here we go again, the great debate over whether "cancel culture" is real.
It is real, as I wrote in my op-ed at Real Clear Politics, Cancel Culture Is Real. The people claiming cancel culture is not a real thing, that it's just a gripe of people who don't like being criticized, almost always are those on the giving, not receiving, end -- the people on campuses and in the culture who hold power in given institutions.
Harrison Bergeron University
Yesterday I posted about the proposed elimination of "blind auditions" for symphony orchestras, so that race and gender could be used as selection criteria to help diversify orchestra musicians. It would be the elimination of what previously was a meritocracy:
Cornell University takes a major step towards compulsory racial activism for faculty, students, and staff
I have repeatedly pointed out, in response to the cancel culture targeting me over my criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement, that things have changed on campuses in ways most people don't fully appreciate.
The new activism surrounding race is completely at odds with the traditional goals of the civil rights movement -- that all people be treated with dignity and afforded the protections of our laws without regard to race.
“Cancel culture is real and getting worse due to Black Lives Matter orthodoxy”
I have a column today at Real Clear Politics, Cancel Culture is Real.
Read the whole thing at the link, and share it. Here is a brief excerpt:
Cornell Controversy Over Student Gov’t Donating $10k To Non-Student Black Lives Matter Groups
Colleges and universities charge students fees so that the money collected can be dibursed to fund various student groups and activities. At Cornell University, the student government handed $10,000 worth of these funds over to a Black Lives Matter funding initiative which was not a recognized student group and which reportedly will transfer the funds to non-student groups.
If you were a student, wouldn't you have a problem with your mandatory student activity fees being sent to non-student political advocacy groups? Many students do have a problem with what happened, and are speaking up.
“to shrink away from this challenge would be a huge mistake”
I was interviewed by Virginia Allen for The Daily Signal's podcast regarding the issues I'm facing at Cornell Law School, and issues facing academia and the nation more generally regarding the Black Lives Matter Movement.
You can listen to the full podcast and read the full transcript at The Daily Signal website, Students, Faculty Target Professor for Writing Honest History of Black Lives Matter.
Ron Coleman