The #DePaul Debacle

i mean i mean hello darling so milo yiannopoulos is continuing his dangerous faggot tour around universities in the united states triggering all kinds of special snowflakes and generally making a nuisance of himself which is wonderful the latest incident of note has been at depaul university in chicago illinois where this happened sir please start sir please sir please we'd like to ask you to please sir please we good don't trust we have heard enough of this foolishness okay every time you hear this foolishness it's followed by the blood on somebody else's hands dump the trump dump the trump dump donald trump jump donald trump dumb donald trump dump their trump dump donald trump dump their so the stage was taken over by these two very oppressed black lives matter activists you can tell they're oppressed because they look so pleased with themselves and they decided to interrupt and eventually end up shutting down this talk we'll explore who these terribly oppressed people are in a minute but for now we'll look specifically at the actions that depaul university should really be considering taking action against as you can see our terribly oppressed lady there goes up to milo and decides to fight the white supremacist catalyst patriarchy by screaming in his face and almost punching him and at some point as the man jumped on the stage before he got the microphone he'd threatened to punch milo as well needless to say if there's any victim narrative here it's not with our protesters now depaul university of course has a code of conduct for the students specifically covering disorderly violent intimidating or dangerous behavior to self or others quote students are not to engage in behavior that threatens harms or causes to place and harm themselves or other persons or to exhibit behavior that is illegal destructive lewd indecent obscene or disorderly including disrupting the peace impeding classes causing significant emotional harm bullying and or endangering the safety health or life of any person on the campus through actions or words after interrupting his talk and threatening and intimidating him on stage there is no doubt that these two students have broken this code of conduct the consequence of breaking these rules are sanctions where they say the university has an obligation to help the students come to a deeper understanding of how their behavior impacts the campus environment these sanctions range from a university reprimand to outright dismissal and there is no doubt that some action must be taken against these protesters according to the university's own rules but it gets better the huffington post of all places published a first-hand account of the event from michael sitfer who is in attendance when the protest happened he said until yesterday i never realized that forcibly shutting down a private speaking event was considered free speech i was also surprised to learn that assaulting a police officer is now a form of protest it certainly never occurred to me that making violent threats towards a speaker was a constitutionally protected right in fact i was pretty confident all three of these acts were illegal yet yesterday i saw radical protesters do all three of these things without consequence depaul university administrators looked undispassionately as if this was an everyday occurrence watching all this unfold i had to wonder for a moment where the depaul administrators were defending some bizarre form of free speech i had never heard of i watched from the front row yesterday as a whistle-blowing protester stormed the stage of an event featuring conservative commentator milo yiannopoulos with about a dozen more radicals following behind him the event was privately organized by students requiring months of planning and painstaking fundraising but that never even factored into their heads administrators have handed them a bubble a safe space where they don't need to consider the impact of their actions on other students while an invited speaker was harassed and harangued by protesters depaul administrators cowered indecisively in a corner faced with a serious challenge to first amendment rights on their campus they were visibly frightened of confronting the protesters who tied themselves to the black lives matter movement only days before the event administrators had demanded that depaul college republicans the club that hosted the event pay hundreds of extra dollars in security costs this was a clear breach of contract but the organizers paid the fee under threat of cancellation yet after ordering a dozen security officers the administrators prevented them from restoring order forcing them to stand down i talked to a few of the dozen chicago police officers eventually called to the building and they were irate they were well trained and well equipped to handle scenarios such as this they wanted to do their job and remove the protesters but the administrators demanded they stand passively and watch once again violence prevailed over free speech on a liberal college campus and the administration was 100 complicit depaul's president decided to come out publicly and instead of being a neutral arbiter and protector of the students and guests well-being he decided to attack milo generally i do not respond to speakers of mr yiannopoulos's ilk as i believe they are more entertainers and self-serving provocateurs than the public intellectuals they purport to be their shtick is to shock and incite a strong emotional response they can use to then discredit the moral high ground claimed by their opponents milo is indeed a provocateur but the moral high ground his opponents do not have they were thugs they burst in they caused a ruckus they intimidated a guest speaker and other students and the administration is defending them he continues by saying this is unworthy of university discourse but not unfamiliar across american higher education there will always be speakers who exploit the differences within our human community to their own benefit blissfully unconcerned about the damage they leave behind oh yes how dare milo lower the level of university discourse to a conversation on a stage sorry i forgot this was the level that he was dragging people down from dump the trump dump donald trump dump donald trump damn donald trump dumped their trump dump donald trump that's right a one-line chance with whistles in the background have you no fucking shame dennis hold schneider milo is having a conversation with about 500 people who want to hear him talk a bunch of black lives matter thugs break in steal a microphone and start blowing whistles into it while shouting a one-line slogan in order to censor him and you say he is reducing the level of discourse i can only assume you are a fucking racist who thinks that black people cannot be expected to control themselves anyway the plantation owner complains that milo argues that there is no wage gap for women which is apparently a difficult position to maintain in light of government data oh yeah let's talk about that sometime dennis as a gay man he's claimed that sexual preference is entirely a choice which he hasn't he claims that white men have fewer privileges than women of people of color whom he believes are unfairly privileged in modern society a statement that is immediately suspect when white men continue to occupy the vast majority of top positions in nearly every major industry that's not what privilege means you monkey privilege is something that is unearned if you have earned something it's not a privilege it's an earned reward for example male students are a minority in depaul university and so when a woman comes in and starts threatening to punch milo in the face that is an act of systemic oppression against him by a woman using institutional power but then i wouldn't expect you to hold the negro to any standards that you'd hold a white man to probably because you've got some cotton that he's picking haven't you mate but he did say that yesterday speaker was invited to speak at depaul and those who interrupted the speech were wrong to do so well i'm glad you think so and i look forward to hearing how these students are going to be punished he says i was ashamed for depaul university when i saw the student rip the microphone from the hands of the conference moderator and wave in the face of our speaker you mean threaten to smash him in the face with it just i mean let's not downplay it she was obviously trying to intimidate him and unlike you i don't think that's okay because they're black i wouldn't try to downplay that if it was white on a white person i'd be like shit look at this if it's black and a white person i'm like shit look at this because it's the act itself that is bad it doesn't matter who is doing it do you get it dennis we at depaul have some reflecting and sorting out to do well you've got some students to be expelling i think i've asked student affairs to reflect on how future events should be staffed so that they proceed without interruption well i'll tell you what how about you have it so that the security guards you charged milo for are allowed to do their job without the administration standing in the way that would be the first thing i would recommend in fact it's such a no-brainer i think you just just write it down and just call it a day expel these students tell the administration never to prevent a security guard from expelling a protester and then you're good but he also wants to improve how protests are to be more effectively assisted and enabled no no no you shouldn't be assisting an enabling protest you are meant to be the authorities of the university you should be the thing being protested against and how the underlying differences around race gender and orientation that were made evident in yesterday's events can be explored in depth in the upcoming academic year i mean i don't know how to tell you this dennis but women and black people are not inferior i'm presuming that dennis holdschnider is part of the alt-right given the lack of control and fairness of application of the rules at depaul by the administration it's unsurprising that thousands of people decided to go to their facebook page and give them a one star review if the administration won't listen to their concerns the public at least will have their voices heard so let's find out who those poor oppressed black protesters were the ones that had to fight against the white supremacist patriarchy with nothing but the institutional power of massa to back them up against a speaker in a conference room so the lovely lady who was sitting with her legs apart and punching milo in the face was kayla johnson she's the daughter of juanita johnson who serves the chicago police department's director of administration she is apparently an african and black diaspora studies major at depaul university you know something that's really going to pay well when she's finished her mother juanita johnson serves as the director of administration second for the chicago police department so you know upper middle class if you can believe it but she's not really the interesting person here the interesting person here is the man who initially stormed the stage that's a chap called edward ward and his is a very interesting story ward is a church minister who had previously been homeless before becoming an active leader in his local church he is apparently a political science alumnus of depaul university and a youth organizer at blocks together a community organizing group in chicago after graduating from depaul ward founded men of vision and empowerment a youth empowerment group in the same city he was the subject of a glowing profile in depaul's online student newspaper which tipped him for state office so just by this brief bio you can tell that he's a man who's had a bit of a tumultuous life so let's take a look at who his political science professor was meet dr valerie c johnson depaul unity professor chair of the department of political science she seems like a reasonable person right well what do you know she's in complete support of this protest she thinks what they're doing is fucking great valerie c johnson is an associate professor in the department of political science at depaul university her teaching specialization is urban politics african american politics american government and the politics of urban education research specialization in urban education school finance reform and school discipline policies african-american politics african-american suburbanization african-american leadership and juvenile incarceration she teaches a course on race ethnicity and housing this course examines the migration and residential patterns of racial and ethnic minorities in the united states with a particular focus on african-american migration just coincidentally from the south to north eastern and midwestern cities residential patterns have a crucial impact on the life chances of racial and ethnic minorities in the united states where one lives determines the ability to access quality educational opportunities health care and employment it also impacts proximity's crime and the development of mainstream cultural competencies although residential patterns are typically explained as a result of choice chief factors include a history of racial discrimination and violence and biases in federal government housing policies and mortgage mortgage lending practices the result has been continuing socioeconomic disparities between whites and racial and ethnic minorities of course that's what she's teaching and she's obviously completely unbiased on this issue she's been rated an overall 3.7 in quality on ratemyprofessor.com you might think well that's quite middling it's like yeah but that's not because she's getting lots of threes she's getting lots of fives and lots of ones let's see what people have to say she's amazing keep up with the readings because they are essential super interesting to listen to her opinions she always has great discussions going and encourages participation just follow her guidelines for assignments and there's no reason you shouldn't get an a she's intelligent and makes it very clear from what she expects from you while she sounds great do not take this professor completely racist towards whites and definitely has an agenda take her class if you want to deal with an insane professor completely awful professor indoctrinates students this professor does not believe in free speech you will not grow intellectually under her i am shocked and appalled at the behavior of staff and students at depaul if you want to take a class with a biased racist bigoted professor here's your chance constantly made insinuations about harming white people i'm an african-american and i do not agree with her views seriously fire her she is mean-spirited and hateful she does not want students to think for themselves but instead to parrot her anti-white rhetoric she is a self-proclaimed quote affirmative action baby and proud of it her class would have been great she just rants about whatever she wants barely citing her reading or outside facts she also misuses words constantly likes to throw around lots of political cliches and is heavily biased to the left only take if you can roll with the bullshit punches she is the best teacher i ever had her discussions were very interesting and she is very intelligent on all the subjects we discussed so she's a bit of a mixed bag then but we can already sketch an outline of her character she appeals a lot to people who agree with her and to everyone else well the comments speak for themselves dr johnson does not have tenure at depaul and failed to get tenure at the university of illinois this is from 2007. behind binoculars valerie c johnson cried she watched from a car across the street on a cold day last february as her students bundled in winter coats shouted marched and waved banners that read tenure professor johnson on the university of illinois at chicago's campus i think that my burden of mentoring minority students is far greater than the burden white professors assume i have got no doubt that you think that professor it was because she failed to get tenure at the university of illinois that she went to depaul and lo and behold group of professors alleges racism at depaul an african-american female professor was denied tenure at depaul university from november 2010 an african-american female professor was denied tenure at depaul some of her colleagues claim that there's a culture of exclusion apparently a group of professors are standing beside her alleging a pattern of institutional racism the professor in question is dr quinnetta shelby who went to yale university of chicago and the university of illinois but she was denied tenure at depaul guess who weighed in in their support all white faculty who went up for tenure and promotion received tenure and promotion but all of the denials were faculty of color said dr valerie johnson yep it must be racism at work and the thing is this isn't anything new i mean she is a black lives matter activist who has argued that a fully democratic society is impossible in the context of white privilege and has participated in race marches in chicago so this is exactly what one would expect a nice long history of being proud that she's an affirmative action hire thinking that she deserves to be tenured without doing any proper work and being heavily heavily biased and not even remotely objective about her own political causes in fact in january this year she seemed to be directing and organizing protesters to disrupt profit centers marching on michigan avenue during black friday blocking traffic in a major downtown intersection and disrupting restaurants at lincoln park and wicker park are just some of the tactics being used by protesters trying to draw attention to police brutality and socio-economic issues in south side areas of chicago following the release of a video in november that showed a chicago police officer shooting laquand mcdonald 16 times protests have broken out across the city while protests have remained peaceful many of their tactics have been brought into question but valerie johnson chair of the political science department who has been active in the protests said there is reasoning behind these tactics they recognize that in order to really impact the powers that be they've got to influence white liberals and white progressives or be such a nuisance that they will be influential to white people who are pretty wealthy she said if you're expecting millions of dollars to come into your store and it didn't you're going to be questioning it it's time to wake people up on topics like police brutality and racial inequality it forces the owners of companies to take responsibility as well johnson described these issues as systemic including underfunded schools dilapidated housing access to healthcare and poverty if that were not the sentiment every citizen of chicago would be out there because they would be so enraged they're so anesthetized to the issues involved here that they don't understand that this is pervasive so much that even me as a university professor as chair of my department as a person who is the right other kind of black person the more acceptable version even me i'm damn afraid when i ride down the street and i see a cop in the last year or so i get uptight now i just want to stress that i don't know whether the chicago police department is or is not racist however given that chicago is about 32 black and the chicago police department is about 29 black i'm going to guess that what these protesters are responding to are individual acts of racism rather than systemic racism but i want to stress that i'm not saying they don't have valid concerns they might but to say that the chicago police are institutionally racist is something that i think would need a great deal of investigation and if i had to take a guess i would probably say that valerie johnson isn't the objective investigator that is needed to discern this so valerie i am terrified of the police johnson is the mentor of edward ward through her political science classes and do you think that maybe some of the things she may have taught him have i don't know been internalized by edward and in fact that is why he is acting in the way he is acting for example when he says that milo threatens my safety and could cause massacres talking about the charleston shooting where dylan roof went into a black church and shot i think it was eight people why does he think that milo might be responsible for something like that apparently he claimed that milo's controversial views on race and feminism are to blame for the charleston shootings and has vowed to continue halting hate speech just to qualify uh what was your stop rushing now for shutting down the talk um here is my thing when you have someone like that no no no now when i went okay i was open to listen to what was big saying i was hoping to listen and try and understand but then it's coming from a point of ignorance when you make these blatant statements about feminism when you make these blatant statements about uh the lgbtq community when you make these statements about black people right then this becomes a problem because when you use this kind of hatred people like us end up dead we end up there you get to charleston uh south carolina right these are what you get as a result of his type of peace and rhetoric if there's not a point of shutting down free speech it's the point of shutting down hate speech hate speech okay okay sure so so you think milo is any of his remarks will contribute to that yeah the word sorry i think my phone just got dropped um so sorry uh well i i looked up just online it's actually online you do a lot of community work so it's just online everywhere be careful what i was saying is this when you when you first when you make statements such as all feminists are idiots or you say that uh black women are mad because you fucked black men like these issues become these statements become a problem because what you're doing now is you're devaluing the legitimate anger of people who've been an oppressed group this is what's happening you're devaluing this anger you're looking at our struggle and you're making a mockery of it there is nothing funny about being black in america there's nothing funny about being black in the world looking in the deepest parts of antiquity okay for me i think about those people who've died at the hands of a racist who began this type of uh and skewed this type of rhetoric that's what i think about and that's why i thought it was necessary and that's why i will continue to do it so long as so long as there is anything that's happening that threatens my safety dr king says injustice anywhere is the threat of justice everywhere what they did in the student center what they did in room 120 was not okay and we need people who will stand up and be unapologetic in it of course i'm going to receive all types of backlash because there are people saying i uh valid i i violated their free speech where he is straight but when you say stuff like this you're planning on very safe do you have a bunch of white people who want to actually say a bunch of racist shit and that's not okay i think you want to say this racist shit and then you have some people who are ignorant enough to act on this racist shit so when i say what i say when i stand up and do what i do i'm doing this for the sake of my people and those who come after me so collectivist horseshit then because someone else might do something because milo has an opinion that is not racist he must have his rights to free speech violated everyone else in the room will have their right to hear what he has to say violated all because of edward's fear that something might happen and that's what all of this stems from a deep-seated fear from valerie johnson's fear of the police to edward's fear of a massacre happening this is all based on fear and this is incubated in valerie johnson's classroom in february the depaul newspaper put out an article about edward ward called from homeless to leader student eyes state office and this article was very revealing born and raised on the city's west side ward was a straight a student however as he transitioned to depaul a heightened awareness led to a shift in his academic drive when i was in high school i was surrounded by black students i knew i was black but i didn't have to think about it the minute i got to depaul i was in a predominantly white class where i was the only black student i automatically felt i wasn't smart enough to be here i don't want sound unsympathetic but this is ward's problem it's not that he's not smart enough to be there he was a straight a student he's clearly smart enough to be there ward being an individual who suffered from low self-esteem began feeling very insecure about his racial status during his freshman year as he struggled to find himself within the classroom troubles at home began to grow at this time i was in the middle of an eviction my mum was in and out of the hospital so i had to take up the burden and go to court on my own asking the judge to show mercy they gave us a few weeks and we get nowhere we were forced into the streets a breakup with his girlfriend sent ward into suicidal depression my self-esteem has been shattered at this point so this paints a pretty clear picture of a very confused young man who has a very low self-esteem and very little going on in his life he's pretty much at the bottom of the barrel and so is it any wonder that he would be perhaps overly sensitive to things such as race that might not have the effect that he's thinking of they might i don't know but being sensitive to this issue i think it's quite likely that he'll probably end up attributing things to his race that aren't necessarily due to his race either way this young man who is clearly at his lowest ebb is ripe to be manipulated by an authority figure with an agenda enter dr valerie johnson just when life appeared to be unbearable for the young undergrad a hero by the name of valerie johnson came to his rescue johnson who was one of ward's professors during his freshman year was able to notice his potential and start pushing him in the right direction edward was a diamond in the rough but he needed to be refined we all live our parochial lives in our various communities you live in the hood your world is the herd you guard into a more diverse atmosphere and you can't use the same attitude edward is the perfect person to illustrate why education is important education refined edward and i've got no doubt that it did but it didn't put into his head the idea that other people's rights are less important than your goals ward recalls the conversation he had with johnson that altered his way of thinking i was failing her class she says to me you can decide to drop out now work a mediocre job and live a mediocre life and have mediocre babies my situation wins i don't win and i don't like losing ward said having this mindset ward began looking for inner peace escaping the reality of his environment on the west side is what allowed that piece to start forming when i had those moments that i needed peace i would often walk to the lake and just sit there i didn't have to deal with looking outside and seeing people going through the struggle being here on campus it was a different world unsurprisingly this confused young man who now has an authority figure to push him in the direction she wants him to go was lacking a father figure ward utilized the time on campus to also begin discovering aspects of his identity not having to micromanage his loved ones allowed time to freely start questioning his manhood something that had been tainted due to a traumatic upbringing a lot has happened that has really scarred me i didn't grow up with a father i was molested by a man who called himself a friend i never connected with men so i don't understand what it means to be a man now i take this time on campus to think about who i am if what edward's saying is true and i've got no reason to think that it's not there's no doubt that he's had a rough life it's no wonder that he has low self-esteem it's no wonder that he is confused and hostile it's no wonder that valerie johnson sees in him a vehicle for her own ambitions he's obviously very intelligent but emotionally traumatized and looking for an identity and black lives matter social justice and feminism give him that identity it's no surprise that on his linkedin profile before he says anything else about himself he says i'm an advocate of social justice this gives him meaning this is why he founded move an organization for probably fatherless young black men to help them presumably avoid the gang culture they could otherwise so easily fall into it's sad it's really sad that this guy's life has been so rough coming from a fatherless household in a poor area of chicago cannot have been easy and i don't blame him for wanting something that will give his life purpose anyone else who grew up in the same circumstances would feel the same but this is no excuse for infringing upon the rights of others when he got up on that stage and decided he was going to shout down and intimidate milo and prevent them from holding their meeting which was completely legitimate he was in the wrong and in my opinion he should be reprimanded in some way not necessarily dismissal but some kind of punishment however dr valerie johnson the person orchestrating what he's doing the person behind the scenes encouraging him and the other black lives matter activists to do what they are doing needs to be fired inciting your students to infringe upon the rights of others and then instructing them on exactly how to do it should be an offense that gets her dismissed but she won't be dismissed because as we've seen the faculty are entirely complicit in this state of affairs they think they are justified and they think if they don't go far enough then it's white supremacy and racism at work in fact look at this ada cheng to the depaul university on their facebook page dear president this is my last quarter at depaul university after 15 years of teaching i have decided to leave the university this is the first time i've ever emailed you and let you know my thoughts please read this note from a woman of color faculty without dismissing it easily universities like all institutions are not neutral platforms universities are embodied institutions predicated upon social inequalities and dominant ideologies privileging the participation and access of certain groups in time of political crisis universities have a responsibility to take a moral stand to believe that universities are simply neutral platforms for equal exchange of ideas the so-called free speech rooted in the market ideology is delusional and that positional objectivity ends up reinforcing the exact inequalities and dominant ideologies upon which this institution is built it is a hypocrisy to believe that one can promote diversity without tackling the racism that underlines all educational institutions the incidents that took place during these past two days are just symptoms of the historical institutional racism embedded in this institution the long history of exiting faculty of color is a long-standing indication your handling of this case is shameful and embarrassing it is a lack of moral courage in the disguise of intellectual objectivity and positional neutrality the lack of position is a position and your chosen position is to reinforce the existing inequalities shame on you i am glad i will no longer be part of this institution and be complicit in the institutional practices that support our racist society ada chang associate professor department of sociology these people think the entire educational system is racist because the entire society of the united states is racist these people are lunatics they have lost touch with reality and now they are inciting their students to go against the very constitutional rights of their fellow students all based on the idea that everything and everyone is racist they have to be stopped they absolutely have to be stopped i mean look at this guy every picture of edward ward makes him look distinguished it makes him look respectable it makes him look like he is a young man with a future why is it that he says when you look at me the first thing that comes to mind is possible criminal in what world does this guy look like a possible criminal he's a straight a student he's at university he wears a suit and tie all the time and he's going to be going for office this is not someone who looks like a criminal however i think his racist professors have taught him that all white people hate black people and therefore think of him as a potential criminal which isn't true these professors have become so insular and ideological in their beliefs they are literally teaching black people to feel bad about themselves at some point we're going to have to categorize this as a form of emotional abuse this young man should be feeling great about himself he's doing great everyone in his peer group likes him and yet he is now the subject of a viral controversy because of some bullshit his professors have put into his head now he is going to get reprimanded or at least should be reprimanded by his university possibly ending in his dismissal for his unruly conduct and threats of violence towards a speaker at the university this isn't doing anything good for these students this is turning them into a greek tragedy a link to the petition to end these social justice courses will be in the description please sign it you

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Published: Fri May 27 2016

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37 minute video??????

Is there a TL;DR?