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They should change the name to the spoiled brats:

This remarkable passage comes from MassLive.com, whose reporter was turned away:

Alyssa Mata-Flores, a 21-year-old Smith College senior and one of the sit-in's organizers, explained that the rule was born from "the way that media has historically painted radical black movements as violent and aggressive."

"We are asking that any journalists or press that cover our story participate and articulate their solidarity with black students and students of color," she told MassLive in the Student Center Wednesday. "By taking a neutral stance, journalists and media are being complacent in our fight."

Smith organizers said journalists were welcome to cover the event if they agreed to explicitly state they supported the movement in their articles.

Wait, it gets better/worse:

Stacey Schmeidel, Smith College director of media relations, said the college supports the activists' ban on media.

"It's a student event, and we respect their right to do that, although it poses problems for the traditional media," Shmeidel said.

Schmeidel went on to say that the college reserves the right to remove reporters from the Student Center because it's a private campus.

Smith is, indeed, a private school — $63,950 per year worth of private school — which is a relevant differentiator from the state-run University of Missouri. And if students and faculty need to discuss sensitive issues behind closed doors, they’re certainly entitled to do so.

But to welcome some reporters and not others — and to make support for the cause the price of admission — is to disregard not only the fundamental principles of journalism but also the school itself (though Smith is the place where the student newspaper censored "crazy" in a published transcript last year, calling it an "ableist slur").




From the Smith College student handbook: “All members of the Smith community are obligated to provide, protect and promote the free exchange of ideas in every form on the Smith College campus. … If the campus is to be truly free, legitimate exchanges of dialogue must proceed without obstruction or coercion from any quarter.”

The reaction from journalists has been, well, what you’d expect:

As a @smithcollege graduate and a journalist, I find this profoundly disturbing. #FirstAmendment https://t.co/VBPfG0cFgB

— JenniferBowersBahney (@JBBahney) November 19, 2015

Misunderstanding the role of media. Not showing up would be “complacent.” https://t.co/Dcx3HpwSjj

— Charles Bierbauer (@cjbsc) November 19, 2015

Want to cover @smithcollege sit-in? Pls check your journalistic principles at the door: https://t.co/WwowZp93s6

Paige Williams (@williams_paige) November 19, 2015

Dear college kids. Please stop this crap. Just ... stop. https://t.co/kIDo6hoFsE

— Gene Weingarten (@geneweingarten) November 19, 2015

via @GarrettQuinn, Smith students demand journalists prove their bias when covering sit in. Love the first sentence https://t.co/TYJ1Y4O1HT

— Michael C Moynihan (@mcmoynihan) November 19, 2015

To add to this, another "liberal" Massachusetts college. We are on the verge of living an Orwellian novel.

"That was not a misprint and this is not a satire story, although I wish that it were. *Liberal protesters at Amherst College in Massachusetts have issued a set of demands to the administrators of the college. *Among those demands is that students who were carrying around signs supporting free speech be sent for reeducation just like Hitler did to German citizens who opposed his will. *According to the list of demands, the students would have to be reeducated in order to achieve *“racial and cultural competency.”

http://www.thepcgraveyard.com/2015/1...ucation-camps/

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of course America is great. that;s not the point. The point is we are falling behind in many key indicators and risk not being great if we don't unite as a country. We are now a country that's divided politically and not united on how to fix what's really important for this country.

who here was of voting age in the 90s or heck, the 80s when we were going to reject our citizenship and leave the country if Reagan was elected, then Bush - for sure we were going to live in paris,- yes, they weakened the country tremendously, put mentally ill people on our streets and impoverished youth in prisons by millions. - yes, the past was so united! especially during the billion dollar starr report about the lewinsky "scandal" backed by cheating husbands dumping their MS wives in hospice while they knocked up their own mistresses.

Yes, we were so united in the past.

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To add to this, another "liberal" Massachusetts college. We are on the verge of living an Orwellian novel.

"That was not a misprint and this is not a satire story, although I wish that it were. *Liberal protesters at Amherst College in Massachusetts have issued a set of demands to the administrators of the college. *Among those demands is that students who were carrying around signs supporting free speech be sent for reeducation just like Hitler did to German citizens who opposed his will. *According to the list of demands, the students would have to be reeducated in order to achieve *“racial and cultural competency.”

http://www.thepcgraveyard.com/2015/1...ucation-camps/

In the real world people disagree. It is what our country is based on. Having differences and accepting the differences of others, even if you disagree. In politics, National elections are often decided by a few percentage points, which means that regardless of your position there are likely about 50% of the people that might disagree.

What the hell are they teaching these kids? Get outside of NE and see the rest of the country and the world.

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same ancestors!? What a turkey! This is a nation of immigrants - America would be another Australia if it wasn't for the hard working immigrants in the late nineteenth and the well educated immigrants in early 21st century.

Those immigrants had a common ancestry and did indeed share basic values - gobble gobble yourself

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who here was of voting age in the 90s or heck, the 80s when we were going to reject our citizenship and leave the country if Reagan was elected, then Bush - for sure we were going to live in paris,- yes, they weakened the country tremendously, put mentally ill people on our streets and impoverished youth in prisons by millions. - yes, the past was so united! especially during the billion dollar starr report about the lewinsky "scandal" backed by cheating husbands dumping their MS wives in hospice while they knocked up their own mistresses.

Yes, we were so united in the past.

yes but go back further in time. the 50's and 60's

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it is the increasingly conservative, narrow minded element of Turkish society being jerks and behaving that way. Societies all over the world are veering towards narrow minded conservative views, not just here.

And its our Lefty friends who enable and empower them. Being too PC has made the world a more dangerous place. #needaviablethirdparty , #Obamacastrateswesternideology

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US racist terrorism strikes yet again:

http://usuncut.com/news/breaking-sev...n-minneapolis/

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I want a safe zone!! I want a hug!!!

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I want a safe zone!! I want a hug!!!

You are the kind of sick phuque that went to public *****ings a century ago.

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True.

Jesus was a liberal and so was Abraham.

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You are the kind of sick phuque that went to public *****ings a century ago.

Exactly. I'm 118 years old, yet still spry enough to talk soccer with y'all.

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Why are we not the greatest country in the world any more . It's because of a'holes like you

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"John Jay was a slaveholder, as were many wealthy New Yorkers during the time period."

Surely someone we should admire. Most of our country forefathers were complete arseholes, Geo. Washington in particular. When President he visited Portsmouth NH and noticed an escaped slave, now a free black, in the crowd. He ordered a local constable to arrest the man and return him to his custody. Essentially the constable told the President to go "bleep himself".

- Cujo

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"John Jay was a slaveholder, as were many wealthy New Yorkers during the time period."

Surely someone we should admire. Most of our country forefathers were complete arseholes, Geo. Washington in particular. When President he visited Portsmouth NH and noticed an escaped slave, now a free black, in the crowd. He ordered a local constable to arrest the man and return him to his custody. Essentially the constable told the President to go "bleep himself".

- Cujo

You leftists are so ungrateful. The best country in the history of the world , of course there were warts along the way. Is it just that you want everyone today to feel guilty ?

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You leftists are so ungrateful. The best country in the history of the world , of course there were warts along the way. Is it just that you want everyone today to feel guilty ?

It's amazing. For how bad we are, why are so many wanting to come here? As a follow up, why are so many wanting to change things after they are here?

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You leftists are so ungrateful. The best country in the history of the world , of course there were warts along the way. Is it just that you want everyone today to feel guilty ?

No the issue is that the line between right wing dirtbag politicians like Trump and the racist terrorists is getting more and more blurred. Look at what Bush said about Muslims 14 years ago and compare to the filth come out of Trump's mouth. No longer even a semblance of decency or nominal reference to civil liberties because he is pandering to the racists and not very bright himself, just making crap up whenever he wants. 9/11 cheering in NJ? One of many fabrications he will be get skewered on. One percenters with the big bucks know they can't have this clown on the ballot.