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Title: Canary in the coal mine
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American Thinker
URL Source: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014
Published: Dec 23, 2014
Author: Arnold Cusmariu
Post Date: 2015-01-16 22:56:31 by yukon
Keywords: Susan Douglas, Douglas, Michigan
Views: 11723
Comments: 34
December 23, 2014 Canary in the coal mine By Arnold Cusmariu “Ho, hum, what else is new?” That was my first reaction when I saw a report that Susan Douglas, a professor of communications and department chair at the University of Michigan, had published an article titled “It’s Okay to Hate Republicans,” in which she stated: I hate Republicans. I can’t stand the thought of having to spend the next two years watching Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Ted Cruz, Darrell Issa or any of the legions of other blowhards denying climate change, thwarting immigration reform or championing fetal ‘personhood.’ According to the professor, Republicans exhibit the following “psychological characteristics”: [d]ogmatism, rigidity and intolerance of ambiguity; a need to avoid uncertainty; support for authoritarianism; a heightened sense of threat from others; and a personal need for structure. To convince readers she isn’t just spouting personal opinions, Douglas offered this: According to researchers, the two core dimensions of conservative thought are resistance to change and support for inequality. These, in turn, are core elements of social intolerance. The need for certainty, the need to manage fear of social change, lead to black-and-white thinking and an embrace of stereotypes. These comments sparked outrage among campus conservatives and Michigan Republican Party officials. Evidently aware that UM is a public institution funded by taxpayers, school bureaucrats scrambled to provide cover. Spokesman Rick Fitzgerald said: The views expressed are those of the individual faculty member and not those of the University of Michigan. Faculty freedom of expression, including in the public sphere, is one of the core values of our institution. At the same time, the university must and will work vigilantly to ensure students can express diverse ideas and perspectives in a respectful environment and without fear of reprisal. The university values viewpoint diversity and encourages a wide range of opinions. It looks like Douglas will be keeping her job. Unlike Professor John McAdams of Marquette University, currently suspended due to a bogus “harassment” charge (incurred after defending a student for disagreeing with a liberal philosophy professor), she will not be under investigation, will not be relieved of her duties, and will not be banned from campus until the investigation is completed. In other words, if you’re a card-carrying liberal, “viewpoint diversity” applies; if not, you’re out of luck. On second thought, there is something new going on here. Let’s focus on the first quote from Douglas’s article and ignore the other two, which describe attributes actually true of the left. The passage accurately anticipates the gut-wrenching panic the left will feel next month when Republicans take over Congress. I’m including in “the left” Democrats all the way up to the White House. President Obama has had a relatively free hand for the past six years in office. The mess he has made of it is no longer a matter for debate, relative to any policy issue you like, domestic as well as foreign. With Harry Reid gone, Obama’s “pen and phone” governing style, no less dictatorial, will soon be seen for what it is: an impotent bluff. “Lame duck” doesn’t even begin to describe it. The Andrews Air Force Base golf superintendent had better get ready to block off even more tee times for the White House. This assumes that Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader McConnell will give top priority to reversing key Obama initiatives. I don’t mean recalling incompetent ambassadors or doing away with the various “czars.” The readership here will probably pounce on me for saying it, but let’s give Boehner and McConnell the benefit of the doubt, at least for now. One thing’s for sure, however: academia will become even more stridently liberal over the next two years as they see their champion in the White House fade into irrelevance.
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#1. To: All (#0)
The double standard. A male professor at a private Jesuit university suspended, a female professor at a liberal state university not even reprimanded. Diversity is allowed only when it benefits liberals.
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Moderator X
Hate is everywhere, it comes from a feeling of powerlessness. Like much of human feeling, hate is not rational and hysterical haters have a most complicated relationship with what they cast their aversion on. Haters are a strange breed. They deem it necessary to keep their minds focused in some kind of permanent and safe subjugation. They fesired this so they can remain indulged in the attraction of their fanaticized repulsion.
Your comment was off topic.
You betcha....here come more "Elizabeths!"
Add to that "a delusional sense of self-righteousness and a pathological fear of liberty" and you've described the canary clan here.
Agreed.
The esteemed professor has it exactly right Look no further than this - go back to all the GOP Potus nominees since '88. Bush I Look at who the '16 nominee will likely be. Bush III. Romney. How much more right wing and anti everything that is decent, good and rational can you get?
Using the terms "canary clan" and "patriotic duty" in the same sentence is laughable. ...to criticize where injustice, inhuman cruelty, bigotry... Unless done by a cop. ...disinformation and obfuscation of truth... Yeah, you guys have got those tactics down to a T.
This assumes that Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader McConnell will give top priority to reversing key Obama initiatives With any luck those two will be on the golf course with Obongo, instead of destroying America with any more illegal legislation. The gay honeymooners
Titus 1:16 They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed.
It is the Canary Clan's patriotic duty to criticize where injustice, inhuman cruelty, bigotry, brainwashing, disinformation and obfuscation of truth is revealed in any form and in any media. We have been told to shut up, but we will never shut up. God Bless America! Wow, you sure do take yourself seriously huh? Most here are laughing at you, pompous fools are def funny to watch.
I'm laughing.
Wow, you sure do take yourself seriously huh? Most here are laughing... Why are you two laughing? Are you laughing because a Florida man pretending to be a veterinarian performed a C-section on a dog, and super-glued puppies’ ears to cardboard after cropping them with scissors? Is this inhuman cruelty? Are you laughing because the Neo Nazis, white supremacists and the Westboro Baptist Church are blazingly angry about all sorts of things, and they’re having temper tantrums at rallies and all over the internet? Is this bigotry? Are you laughing because the media in collusion with the government, has formed an oligopolistic entity whose sole purpose is to manipulate the population into accepting undemocratic corporate control over their lives? Is this brainwashing? Are you laughing because the CIA has long misused and abused history and continues to do so with a history of distortion? Is this disinformation? Are you laughing because the 9/11 Commission Report had omissions, distortions, was evasive,was unclear and obscure in the telling of the facts? Is this obfuscation of truth? Why are you laughing at those who speak out against injustice, inhuman cruelty, bigotry, brainwashing, disinformation and obfuscation of truth? Do you not think you should take injustice, inhuman cruelty, bigotry, brainwashing, disinformation and obfuscation of truth seriously too? Are you two still laughing? Why? If you still think it’s funny….then I will laugh with you.
Isn't there an older adults centre you can go to? So you can babble at the other crumblies.
Nope! I am happy here. The fact that you don't like me here makes me even more happy. As you grow older you will learn to discern the people who matter most, Biffy, you don't matter at all!
As you grow older you will learn to discern the people who matter most, and the people who should not matter at all. Biffy, you don't matter at all! That is classic. Do you mind if I borrow that in the future?
Be my guest, I heard it somewhere. I hope I remembered it correctly.
That was one of the best put downs I have seen. You did it without using criticism in a negative way. Marvelous job. They will no doubt fail to see how pathetic they themselves are. Sometimes people have a nervous laugh and try to expose what’s wrong with you because they can’t handle what’s right with you.
LOL ! You got that right !
Of course not, why I despise you.
Because he's your better.
Lol, I was the guy who stole his lunch and took his girlfriend. Hes still angry.
Out of his locker
If you ask he'll let you you use it!
On himself?
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
Out of his locker Nah, from his Gillian backpack, he pulled out his widdle pink rape whistle to try and get a cop, but somehow, his genius plan didnt work. Seeing what a total punk he was, girlfriend dumped him to the curb, i dumped her a week later.
Then ran away peeing yourself in terror when you thought you heard him coming. Hardly a surprising admission. Thieves tend to be cowards.
Lol! You canaries are the ones who need the government big and all powerful, making all your decisions for you, giving you your obamaromneycare, and basically changing your depends for you. Why you hate those who wish for more liberty, you are incapable of feeding yourselves. Spit!
Backwards. You're the self-confessed thief.
It looks like Douglas will be keeping her job. Unlike Professor John McAdams of Marquette University, currently suspended due to a bogus “harassment” charge (incurred after defending a student for disagreeing with a liberal philosophy professor), she will not be under investigation, will not be relieved of her duties, and will not be banned from campus until the investigation is completed. In other words, if you’re a card-carrying liberal, “viewpoint diversity” applies; if not, you’re out of luck.
#2. To: yukon (#0)
#3. To: yukon (#0)
(Edited)
I hate....
#4. To: Biff Tannen (#2)
#5. To: yukon (#0)
(Edited)
One thing’s for sure, however: academia will become even more stridently liberal over the next two years as they see their champion in the White House fade into irrelevance.
#6. To: yukon, Gatlin, Palmdale, misterwhite. hondo68, TEA Party Reveler, sneakypete, Dead Culture Watch, tpaine (#0)
[d]ogmatism, rigidity and intolerance of ambiguity; a need to avoid uncertainty; support for authoritarianism; a heightened sense of threat from others; and a personal need for structure.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state.
Paul Craig Roberts
They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
#7. To: Moderator X (#4)
#8. To: yukon (#0)
blowhards denying climate change, thwarting immigration reform or championing fetal ‘personhood.’
Dole
Bush II
McClown
Romney.
#9. To: Deckard (#6)
#10. To: Deckard, yukon, Palmdale, misterwhite. hondo68, TEA Party Reveler, sneakypete, Dead Culture Watch, tpaine (#6)
(Edited)
d]ogmatism, rigidity and intolerance of ambiguity; a need to avoid uncertainty; support for authoritarianism; a heightened sense of threat from others; and a personal need for structure. Add to that "a delusional sense of self-righteousness and a pathological fear of liberty" and you've described the canary clan here.
It is the Canary Clan's patriotic duty to criticize where injustice, inhuman cruelty, bigotry,
brainwashing, disinformation and obfuscation of truth is revealed in any form and in any media.
We have been told to shut up, but we will never shut up. God Bless America!
#11. To: Gatlin (#10)
It is the Canary Clan's patriotic duty...
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state.
Paul Craig Roberts
They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
#12. To: yukon (#0)
(Edited)
Andrews Air Force Base golf superintendent had better get ready to block off even more tee times for the White House.
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#13. To: hondo68 (#12)
#14. To: Moderator X (#4)
#15. To: Gatlin (#10)
#16. To: Dead Culture Watch (#15)
#17. To: Dead Culture Watch, abcdefg, ALL (#15)
(Edited)
It is the Canary Clan's patriotic duty to criticize where injustice, inhuman cruelty, bigotry, brainwashing, disinformation and obfuscation of truth is revealed in any form and in any media. We have been told to shut up, but we will never shut up. God Bless America!
Are you laughing because the Patriot Act has been turning citizens into suspects since 2001? Is this an injustice?
Why are you laughing at injustice, inhuman cruelty, bigotry, brainwashing, disinformation and obfuscation of truth? 
#18. To: Gatlin (#17)
#19. To: Biff Tannen (#18)
(Edited)
Isn't there an older adults centre you can go to?
So you can babble at the other crumblies. 
and the people who should not matter at all.
#20. To: Gatlin (#19)
#21. To: yukon (#20)
(Edited)
#22. To: yukon (#20)
#23. To: Gatlin, Dead Culture Watch, abcdefg (#17)
#24. To: hondo68 (#12)
" The gay honeymooners "
#25. To: Gatlin (#17)
Do you not think you should take injustice, inhuman cruelty, bigotry, brainwashing, disinformation and obfuscation of truth seriously too?
#26. To: Dead Culture Watch (#25)
why I despise you
#27. To: Palmdale (#26)
#28. To: Dead Culture Watch (#27)
I was the guy who stole his lunch
#29. To: Spartacus (#23)
#30. To: Biff Tannen (#29)
#31. To: Palmdale (#28)
(Edited)
#32. To: Dead Culture Watch (#31)
#33. To: Palmdale (#32)
#34. To: Dead Culture Watch (#33)
you are incapable of feeding yourselves.
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