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Things are Tufts All Over
Mike Adams
RightBias.com
November 5, 2012
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Tufts University, a private school in Massachusetts, has now officially ceased
to be a university. Tufts has a national reputation for heavy handed suppression
of free speech despite its close proximity to places where many of our nation's
first great free speech victories were fought and won. Few who are familiar with
Tufts will be surprised to learn that their student government has initiated
measures to de-recognize a Christian group because its leaders are required to
adhere to "basic Biblical truths of Christianity."
At Tufts, tolerance equals excluding people in order to be inclusive. At Tufts,
discrimination is remedied by discriminating in the application of
anti-discrimination measures. Both Orwellian practices are on display in the
latest Tufts controversy.
Kimberly Thurler is a spokesman who has been assigned the difficult task of
defending the latest shenanigans at Tufts. She would probably prefer that I call
her a spokesperson but I refuse to adhere to sexist mandates. (All mandates are
sexist. Otherwise, they would be called person dates). Thurler recently stated
that the SGA de-recognition effort is a complex matter involving tension between
efforts to promote religious freedom and non-discrimination. No, Kimberly, it
isn't complex. Unless you suffer severe intellectual hernia, it is actually
quite simple. Let me illustrate with a brief example.
Imagine that Stevie Wonder is applying for a job as a bus driver in Selma,
Alabama. The City of Selma is allowed to prevent him from being a bus driver
because he is blind. But they cannot keep him from being a bus driver because he
is black. Anyone, even Stevie Wonder, can see that it takes vision to be a bus
driver. Blindness, not blackness, will impede his ability to drive the bus.
Blackness, not blindness, should be ignored as a job requirement. To do
otherwise would promote arbitrary discrimination, which is the real enemy of
liberty, not discrimination per se.
When it comes to discrimination, we have to be willing to distinguish between
different types of discrimination. Discriminating between different concepts is
called intelligence. Refusing to lump all forms of discrimination together is
called common sense. It is what keeps us from having blind bus drivers.
Now back to Tufts University where the blind really do seem to be leading the
blind.
Since no one is opposed to all discrimination - no one is urging justice for
blind bus drivers - there is no necessary conflict at Tufts. By allowing
Christian groups to select leaders who are actually Christian they are picking
the only people who can lead a Christian group. They don't mind having someone
who once was blind but now can see taking the wheel of the Christian bus. But if
he's still blind then the Christian bus is going to crash. Buddha, take the
wheel? I don't think so.
And that is the entire point at Tufts University. They want the Christian bus to
crash. It is always the motivation of those who urge the application of
nondiscrimination clauses to beliefs. The university knows that if you ban
belief requirements you impede religious freedom. There is no "delicate balance
of competing interests.” This is no "complex matter."
Adam Sax, Chair of the Tufts Community Union seems distraught over the fact that
all other student groups have abandoned belief requirements for officers. Only
the Tufts Christian Fellowship is holding out. He told a Boston Globe
correspondent that the Christians “need to play by the same rules." In other
words, the Christians need to have the same set of beliefs as everyone else
(read: no beliefs whatsoever) in order to promote diversity. I think Adam is on
the Eve of an intellectual breakdown. If he keeps trying to strong arm the
Christians, someone should sue him for Saxual harassment.
It should be noted that Tufts has an all-male a capella group that is not facing
the wrath of the university thought police. (See
http://www.bubs.com/about-us). And the reason is simple: the all-male
singing group does not believe in anything that offends the tyrants in the
student government. And that is the end game. They want everyone to believe in
nothing so that nothing distinguishes anyone from anyone else. And it is all
done in the name of diversity. If they get much more diverse, they will soon be
wearing school uniforms.
At Tufts, there is a choice between respecting religious freedom and
de-recognizing it. Tufts chooses to de-recognize it. In other words, they choose
to side with the King and not the colony.
Mike Adams is a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina
Wilmington and author of
Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor
Confronts "Womyn" On Campus.
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