{"id":70220,"date":"2019-03-12T07:11:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T12:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70220"},"modified":"2019-03-12T07:16:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T12:16:21","slug":"the-world-academic-intellectual-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70220","title":{"rendered":"The World Academic \/ Intellectual War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The barring and harassment of conservative speakers on campus – even campuses like Grand Canyon and Northwestern in Saint Paul, which recently got heartburn over Star Parker – isn’t just a series of random snowflakes yelling themselves hoarse<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lefties call this kind of challenge a structure test. It\u2019s an evaluation of capacity. Organizations (or people) can either pass a structure test, or they can fail. In the case of the [Grand Canyon University] challenge, [Young America Foundation] passed. So, the next question is whether YAF has the capacity and willingness to pass that structure test somewhere else for the sake of Parker, who is a less prominent name than Shapiro.
After that, the question will be whether YAF can pass that test again, and again, and again. It\u2019s an unending series of questions: Are you willing to fight? How much? For how long? How many fights can you sustain? How many fights can you keep track of? How many lawsuits can you afford to file?

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Even I lose track. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organize – finally, once and for all. Of course, it’s easier said than done:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First off, let me stress that this kind of organization isn\u2019t something just anybody can do. Some people are better placed to do it than others. The ideal person to be involved in this work is somebody who\u2019s active in her alumni network, was active in campus life as a student, and has a good number of healthy contacts, preferably among people who are active donors.
If that\u2019s you: sit down and make a list of people you know personally, who donate time and money to the university, who are unhappy with the way things are. Call them up on the phone\u2014don\u2019t text, don\u2019t email, don\u2019t Facebook. You\u2019re using a personal connection here, and the human voice is important.
Sound them out, make sure they\u2019re on your side, then make it clear you\u2019re putting together a group of donors who want to pressure the university to make it a better place for conservatives. They should ideally be of a variety of ages \u2014 that way their networks will consist of different graduating cohorts. Discuss what you\u2019re doing, what your demands will be, and get people to sign on.
This is your organizing committee<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Read the whole thing. It’s worth it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The barring and harassment of conservative speakers on campus – even campuses like Grand Canyon and Northwestern in Saint Paul, which recently got heartburn over Star Parker – isn’t just a series of random snowflakes yelling themselves hoarse: Lefties call this kind of challenge a structure test. It\u2019s an evaluation of capacity. Organizations (or people) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,10,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-education","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70221,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70220\/revisions\/70221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}