{"id":15387,"date":"2019-02-14T01:10:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T08:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=15387"},"modified":"2019-02-14T01:10:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T08:10:29","slug":"quick-takes-verboten-at-college-alex-jones-capital-letters-women-who-say-theyre-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/02\/14\/quick-takes-verboten-at-college-alex-jones-capital-letters-women-who-say-theyre-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes &#8211; Verboten at College: Alex Jones; CAPITAL LETTERS; Women Who Say They&#8217;re Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: No let doubleplusungood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CPFTeXtyLeI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ah, college is a place that embraces insanity like &#8220;gender studies&#8221; or &#8220;critical Whiteness&#8221;, but can&#8217;t stand the old school cops of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/1046977\/university-lecturers-not-to-use-cap-letters-student-failure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alex Jones&#8217;&#8230; fan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;If you want to know why Bradley Shear is pushing Congress and the states to crack down on social-media snooping by colleges and universities, ask the lawyer about the Alex Jones case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;One of Shear\u2019s teenage clients was denied admissions to a prestigious college after the admissions officer ask him why he followed the InfoWars conspiracy theorist on Twitter, according to Shear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The student didn\u2019t interact with Jones or himself promote conspiracy theories \u2013 he simply followed a controversial personality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What&#8217;s scarier than someone who listened to Alex Jones? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/1046977\/university-lecturers-not-to-use-cap-letters-student-failure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CAPITAL LETTERS<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Staff at Leeds Trinity&#8217;s school of journalism have also been told to &#8216;write in a helpful, warm tone, avoiding officious language and negative instructions&#8217;. Some blasted the move as &#8216;more academic mollycoddling&#8217; of the snowflake generation. An &#8216;enhancing student understanding, engagement and achievement&#8217; memo lists dos and don&#8217;ts &#8211; with &#8216;do&#8217; and &#8216;don&#8217;t&#8217; among words frowned upon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Course leaders say capitalising a word could emphasise &#8216;the difficulty or high-stakes nature of the task&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The memo says: &#8216;Despite our best attempts to explain assessment tasks, any lack of clarity can generate anxiety and even discourage students from attempting the assessment at all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8216;Generally, avoid using capital letters for emphasis and &#8216;the overuse of &#8220;do&#8221;, and, especially, &#8220;DON&#8217;T&#8221;.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Guess what one Women&#8217;s college thought was beyond the pale and must not be accepted? If you guessed &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/womens-college-will-now-admit-trans-women-reject-trans-men\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">women<\/a>&#8220;, then collect your prize!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A women\u2019s college recently changed its admissions policy to accept applicants who either live or identify as women while no longer accepting women who now identify as men. The college has refused to comment on this new policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Stephens College, a private school in Columbia, Missouri, has decided to change its definition of womanhood for the first time in its 185-year history. The new policy states the college will &#8216;admit and enroll students who were not born female, but who identify and live as women.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;On the flip side, the new policy states that &#8216;the College will stop admitting and enrolling students who were born female but who now identify as men or who are transitioning from female to male.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Verboten at College: Alex Jones; CAPITAL LETTERS; Women Who Say They're Men\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: No let doubleplusungood.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: No let doubleplusungood. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ah, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/02\/14\/quick-takes-verboten-at-college-alex-jones-capital-letters-women-who-say-theyre-men\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[77,70,55,25,42,69],"class_list":["post-15387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-derp","tag-facepalm","tag-gender","tag-higher-ed","tag-mood-music","tag-quick-takes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15388,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15387\/revisions\/15388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}