I am a fan of Jordan Peterson. He was giving a talk at Harvard and was talking about a forum he had at Toronto. He told the college administration how to limit protests. He told them, “Have it in the morning.” So they have it at 9 AM and one MP shows up to pass somethings out. He believes there would be zero protests if these things happened at 7 AM.
How to End College Protests
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urd0IK0WEWU
At about the 37 minute mark.
@Centime: Wow!
“Learn to speak.
Learn to read.
Learn to think.
You’ll become a superpower.”
To heck with Tony Robbins and those types- this guy is the real thing! He now has a new fan who just ordered two of his books from Amazon.
Many thanks for this post.
Three words: Ohio National Guard.
One word: Tanks.
The early time slot is hilarious. You might attract a few crabby menopausal women with night sweats, but other than that.
Also could try police canines, for protests, flash mobs, etc.
what do you really need for people with hangovers and sleep deprived?
A den of brownies with squirt guns should do it.
Wait, I gots another idea.
The elected government of the United States should use its power as the government to enforce the supreme law of the land- the Constitution- everywhere.
Even at college campuses. It should do so not only by using its power of the purse, but also the armed might of the state, up to and including lethal force, if necessary.
Serious regimes use force to impose their will upon their territory. If the United States had a regime serious about its own laws, the violence and thuggery by the left simply would not be tolerated, period.
I say its time we got such a serious regime.
With protesters who are too ashamed to show their faces and commit illegal behavior I would unmask them. Light will do these people in.
I just listened to the end of the video. Jordan Peterson talked about how he felt sorry for the protesters. They had no creativity. All they could do was repeat curses.
Eliminate the Dept. of Ed and all federal funding of higher education and participation in the student loan boondoggle and the protests end within a semester.
When the only reason to go to college is to get a technical degree or education is being funded solely by parents, hard work, and/or savings there will be little time for setting the campus on fire.
Brent, but where are we going to get the indentured servants?
As usual a great question Dime. Perhaps we could embrace private property and individual liberty.
How many years do the new indentured servants have to work to pay off the student loan? It was seven years before in the colonies.
A few years ago my middle son treated himself to a trip to Greece. (He used his performance bonus from the pipeline company he worked for.)
He visited relatives – a slew of cousins who remained in Greece when my grandparents immigrated to the US. One cousin who he had never met before put him up at an Athens hotel at family rates.
My son also spent time visiting the museums, but his trip took place during one of the many general strikes held due to austerity. And there were daily protests in front of the museums he wished to visit – they would close down to prevent damage.
However, he got to see everything he wanted to. He got up early, and would be at the museums when they opened. The protests never started until noon, and often not until 1:30 pm or so.
The staff was delighted to see anyone, since all of the other tourists were avoiding the museums due to the demonstrations. They gave my son special tours of the places. Then, about 11:30, he would leave, get lunch somewhere four or five blocks away (the protesters were too lazy to cause trouble that far away), and then spend the afternoons with relatives.
Seawriter
Great story, Seawriter.
We have to remember that all these people are lazy and think normal standards are oppression. Many will be going through life three steps behind. They will have to unlearn, undebt, and unblame.
Yes, great story, Seeawriter. This idea of using the morning is brilliant. It seems trivial but it is a bit of practical advice that works: news you can use, so to speak.
I started listening at the beginning of Peterson’s interview. We need a few thousand of these guys going around and explaining reality to students because I truly believe that they have not been exposed to the ideas he presents. And when they are exposed, they are open to them.
He was well received, partly because he has a good sense of humor, but also because he introduces common-sense ideas to people who have never heard them. He slams slacktivism pretty hard too.
It is refreshing because he cuts through the garbage. The problem is not tolerance but forced speech and activist who don’t represent any group but bromides.
Jordan Peterson talks in another video about the Ideologically Possessed. These people don’t handle conversations well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBCtX9lmsGQ
Those “right winged Conservative brutes” in Seattle that wouldn’t let a reasonable well-mannered woman speak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TLIjoTHtJY
I finished listening to the whole Peterson interview. That’s right, I spent 1.5 hours on this. It is well worth it. A lot to ask, I know, but he’s full of good ideas and they were generally well received by the students.