College president sorry for saying 'All lives matter'No college president should EVER capitulate to student drivel, especially when it is Leftist Dogma and false by definition. This could have been an instructional experience for the adult to teach the juvenile minds. Instead, fully aware of the destruction of other university presidents no doubt, this fool tried to agree with the protesters and still... still angered the little Leftist dears. She should be fired anyway, if the board of directors has any integrity; we aren't holding are breath on that one.
"The president of prestigious Smith College is red-faced and apologetic Tuesday for telling students on the Northampton, Mass., campus that "all lives matter."
Kathleen McCartney wrote the phrase in the subject line of an e-mail to students at the school, whose alumni include feminists Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan, former First Lady Nancy Reagan and celebrity chef Julia Child. McCartney was attempting to show support for students protesting racially charged grand jury decisions in which police in Missouri and New York were not charged in the deaths of unarmed black men.
Protesters have adopted several slogans in connection with the cases of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, including "Black Lives Matter." McCartney's more inclusive version of the refrain was seen as an affront that diminished the focus on black lives and racism, according to emails obtained by FoxNews.com.
“We are united in our insistence that all lives matter,” read the e-mail,in which she made clear she was strongly behind the protests, writing that the grand jury decisions had “led to a shared fury… We gather in vigil, we raise our voices in protest.”
But she soon received backlash from students for her phrasing. They were offended that she did not stick with the slogan “black lives matter.”
The Daily Hampshire Gazette, which first covered the story, quoted one Smith sophomore, Cecelia Lim, as saying, “it felt like she was invalidating the experience of black lives.”
In response to student backlash, McCartney apologized in another campus-wide email Friday, saying she had made a mistake “despite my best intentions.” "
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Really? College Pres. Apologizes For Saying "All Lives Matter".
If you don't think that colleges really have turned into intellectual shit piles, then try this:
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How positively Orwellian. The professor did not use the approved slogan. And I know it has been criticized for quite some time, but it bears repeating, the use of "I felt" or "I feel" in the context of an argument that is not with your spouse is intellectually vacuous. I expect nothing less, however, from the average University student.
From another article:
"McCartney closed her [second] email acknowledging her mistakes, “despite my best intentions,” and thanking those who shared their “wisdom and wise counsel” with her."
After email controversy, Smith President Kathleen McCartney leads campus vigil over police killings of blacks
The road to hell is paved with "good" intentions. When a university president capitulates to the anti-intellectual mob while trying to placate it, it is NOT "wisdom and wise counsel" that motivates her; it is instead a feeling of the necessity to publicly "self hate" herself for the "sin" of her "white privilege."
The children of the Sixties (now occupying positions of adult responsibility) are merely expressing their "solidarity" AS CHILDREN with the children who have been entrusted to them to be educated, apparently in the ways of the Sixties radicals who turned college campuses into intellectual Voids.
Intellectual "useful idiots" (like this one) will be the first ones to be sacrificed if (more likely, when) the imagined glorious Dystopian revolution that they so ardently desire and promote becomes grisly reality. In spite of their best intentions to support the revolution, they still are so out of touch with their own fantasy world that they commit major faux pas while trying to be "with it."
One only has to look back at the history of the past two centuries for the relevant object lesson. Santayana was correct: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Capitulation to these barbarians of the mind will only result in eventual disaster for any society so foolish as to expect reasoned behavior from them. The brutal reign of the political "Attilas" will always follow the intellectual Void preached by the "Witch Doctors" of academia.
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