Friday, May 15, 2015

Students seek to revoke WA state senator’s degree for not believing in climate change, even though he does

Students seek to revoke WA state senator’s degree for not believing in climate change, even though he does « Hot Air
Ah, the beauty of our nation’s college campuses, the traditional hotbeds of free speech and open debate. I wonder what ever happened to those? Out in Washington State, some students at Western Washington University have come up with interesting new techniques in the field of debate. For example, one of their state senators, Doug Ericksen (R-Ferndale) was found by the upset underclassmen to be a heretical non-believer when it comes to the issue of global warming. Ericksen, as it turns out, is an alumnus of WWU, so rather than debating him on the hot topic, they have issued demands to have his diploma revoked.
This isn’t an election year for state Sen. Doug Ericksen, R-Ferndale, but challengers do seek to wrest something from him — not his elected office but rather one of his college degrees.
A group of students with ties to Huxley College held a meeting at 5:30 p.m. today, Thursday, May 7, on campus, to start what promises to be an uphill — if not Quixotic — battle to convince university administration to strip Ericksen of his diploma.
“We’re framing it in a more radical way,” D’Angelo said. “We’re not just trying to have a conversation with him or hold him accountable. We’re trying to revoke his degree and get people to pay attention.”...
...The point here isn’t whether or not he earned his degree or is an authority in his own field. Nor is it whether he is serving the interests of his constituents.The purpose is to punish him for disagreeing with the new herd. After all, by your own admission you said that you were “not just trying to have a conversation with him or hold him accountable… you wanted people to “pay attention” to you. So I suppose that justifies everything.
We need to just start walling off some of these schools. And flooding them. And filling them with sharks. With lasers.

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