Scripps College continued its trajectory toward becoming the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262780/scripps-most-racist-college-america-matthew-vadum">most racist college</a> in the United States by approving two flyers that addressed different groups of people. According to <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/scripps-college-nonwhite-students-should-be-paid-for-sharing-their-opinions/">The Claremont Independent</a>, one of these flyers was titled &#8220;Quick Guide For White Students&#8221; and another was titled &#8220;Quick Guide For People Of Color And Marginalized Backgrounds.&#8221;
The flyers were part of a campaign by two resident assistants to inform the Scripps student body about &#8220;emotional labor,&#8221; which both flyers defined as &#8220;the exertion of energy for the purpose of addressing people&#8217;s feelings, educating, making people comfortable, or living up to social &#8216;expectations.&#8217;&#8221; The flyer addressed to people of color gave suggestions on how to deal with emotionally burdensome events such as interacting with people who don&#8217;t agree with them on social media.
Here is what the flyer suggested to people of color on how to deal with such emotionally taxing activities:
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First and Foremost: Take care of yourself. Decide if it&#8217;s worth your time. The burden does not rest on your shoulders! Remove yourself if possible/necessary. You don&#8217;t owe anyone anything at the expense of your mental health. / Second: If you do decide to engage, practice some of these tips to avoid overexertion for the sake of educating: Refer to a friendly Google search of the concept in question; Call in professors and white peers to help educate their peer(s); Charge for your services. If you&#8217;ve decided you&#8217;re going to do it, at least get paid; Visit your designated [dean of students on campus] to talk about ways to address the mental toll.
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The flyer suggests that white students should pay to talk to non-white students for conversations about a variety of topics. This echoes the idea of individuals calling for reparations for black Americans for slavery, stating that those with a lighter skin complexion should pay for the sins the American south committed before 1865.
Elliot Dordick, the staff writer for The Claremont Independent who broke the story, told The Daily Wire that the flyers represent a greater problem not only with Scripps itself, but also the regressive left:
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Scripps is a part of the Left and the Left, being naturally authoritarian, essentially demands racism when race is the issue du jour. To be on the Left is to care more about outcome than opportunity and to see any inequality as illegitimate theft by whoever has more of a given, desired trait &#8212; in this case, money. If the narrative goes that white people have more money on average, it is only natural for leftists to demand, based on that stereotype, that whites pay nonwhites for even such reasonable tasks as simple conversation to the end of wealth redistribution amongst races. Neither facts nor logic, like the fact that many of the highest paying industries (sports, entertainment, etc.) are not exclusively dominated by whites or the logic that hard work rather than being born a certain color can account for real, long-lasting equality are of interest to these people.
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Dordick further stated that by approving these flyers to be posted across campus, the Scripps administration normalized these racist attitudes among its student body. The administration has demonstrated cognitive dissonance on the question of progressive racism among its students. Two weeks ago, the administration told the managers of the student coffee shop, the Motley, that it had to <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/13564/scripps-college-students-think-fk-white-people-and-elliott-hamilton">erase statements</a> like &#8220;F**k White People&#8221; and &#8220;Death to AmeriKKKa&#8221; on its chalk board. The Motley&#8217;s managers responded by saying that those words represented &#8220;valued speech.&#8221;
Scripps could possibly be the most racist college in the United States.
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The Student Life, the Claremont Colleges&#8217; sole weekly newspaper left-wing tabloid, <a href="http://tsl.news/opinions/6492/">published</a> an article on February 24 titled &#8220;Milo&#8217;s Hate Speech is Not Free Speech.&#8221; Scripps College freshman Tiara Sharma discussed her contempt for those who disagreed with those who censored Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley and stated that individuals who possessed his ideals should never be welcomed at the Claremont Colleges.
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In the aftermath of the Berkeley riots that forced him to cancel his speaking engagement, I had many conversations with people who claimed to condemn Yiannopoulos&#8217;s ideologies, but defended his right to disseminate them on college campuses. My response to these people is simple: college campuses are not, and should not be, responsible for financially supporting figures like Yiannopoulos whose politics are founded upon the marginalization of certain identities. Our campuses cannot host public figures who claim that &#8220;gay rights have made us dumber,&#8221; call transgender people &#8220;mentally ill,&#8221; or claim that rape culture is a &#8220;fantasy.&#8221;
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To justify her claim that the Claremont Colleges should follow that course, she alluded to Scripps College&#8217;s decision to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/10/08/scripps-college-uninvites-george-will-because-of-column-on-sexual-assault/?utm_term=.b92f70fbb749">disinvite</a> syndicated columnist George Will three years ago for writing a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-college-become-the-victims-of-progressivism/2014/06/06/e90e73b4-eb50-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html?utm_term=.e4ab308f8836">piece</a> about how campus progressives turned into a coddled community of safe spaces and trigger warnings while alluding to the &#8220;college rape epidemic&#8221; <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/12777/9-things-you-need-know-about-campus-rape-epidemic-aaron-bandler">myth</a>. 
Sharma also expressed grievances with Simon &amp; Schuster and the Conservative Political Action Conference, observing that a pedophilia controversy was necessary revoke Yiannopoulos&#8217;s book deal and his keynote address. She concludes her sophomoric article with the following assertion:
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By continuing to fund speakers like Yiannopoulos, colleges like our own are not advocating for free speech; they are encouraging a type of ill-informed, hateful discourse that has no place on our campuses. If our colleges want to flaunt diversity on their brochures and websites, they should be willing to address the needs of their diverse students. They are entirely responsible for assuring that white supremacists, sexists, and bigots masquerading under the label &#8216;political pundit&#8217; do not impinge upon the lived experiences of their students. 
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According to Sharma, &#8220;hate speech&#8221; does not constitute free speech. However, the First Amendment of the Constitution does not outline such exceptions and it is unfortunate that The Student Life does not give its writers a crash course on the very constitutional right that gives them the ability to publish such unadulterated garbage:
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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Naturally, I wrote the following comment dissenting from Sharma&#8217;s assertions:
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In short, I stated that the First Amendment never had a &#8220;hate speech&#8221; exception because hatred is in the eye of the beholder. If such an exception existed, then snowflake millennials like Sharma would justify silencing individuals like Milo Yiannopoulos, George Will, or Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro. I also stated that whomever sponsors her education is getting a terrible return on their investment if Sharma cannot even properly read the First Amendment. It calls into question what she is learning inside the classroom (nothing insightful, I assume).
It does not surprise me that The Student Life and the Claremont Colleges peddle such fascistic and tyrannical views. When I was a student at Pitzer College, I was an opinion columnist for The Student Life as I was transitioning from a disgruntled classical liberal to a conservative. In my <a href="http://tsl.news/opinions/3557/">first article</a>, I wrote that the student body should have open, fruitful dialogue on controversial topics; using the Arab-Israeli conflict as an example. In response, people on campus equated my pro-Israel position with those who harbor sympathies to the Ku Klux Klan. I also <a href="http://tsl.news/opinions/4081/">warned</a> that the liberal left&#8217;s stranglehold on campus dialogue would ruin the Claremont Colleges&#8217; reputation as a beacon of liberalism in academia. A year later, I wrote a strongly-worded <a href="http://tsl.news/opinions/4127/">article</a> slamming the left&#8217;s anti-Semitic crusade demonizing Israel, resulting in a few individuals calling on TSL&#8203;&#8217;s editors to fire me for having the audacity to present an opinion that did not fit the leftist collective in Claremont.
Since I graduated, The Student Life transformed from being a reasonably moderate voice committed to intrepid campus journalism and including a diversity of ideas into a leftist rag where ill-informed progressive students air out their nearly unlimited grievances at <a href="http://tsl.news/opinions/5605/">commencement speakers</a>, <a href="http://tsl.news/opinions/5288/">Monsanto</a>, <a href="http://tsl.news/opinions/6467/">Birthright</a>, and <a href="http://tsl.news/opinions/6291/">President Trump</a>. While their editors attempt to include dissenting voices, their readership takes such significant issue with it that the newspaper functions as a de facto echo chamber of the campus left. Their decline as a reliable source also allowed <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/">The Claremont Independent</a>, the independently run conservative news magazine, to overtake the TSL as Claremont&#8217;s most widely read news source.
Articles like Sharma&#8217;s continue to demonstrate how college students are subjected to indoctrination that not only vilifies our system of governance, the laws of our land, and the individuals in power, but it also creates a community that preaches tolerance while not understanding what the word means. &#8220;Tolerance&#8221; does not disappear the moment somebody projects an opinion you strongly dislike. However, the community that The Student Life fosters with its readership and writers promulgates the very victimhood culture that rationalized Sharma&#8217;s fascistic belief that silencing dissent is a worthwhile, socially &#8220;just&#8221; endeavor. This is a dangerous precedent. It led to the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-claremont-marches-20151112-story.html">deplorable protests</a> that resulted in Dean Mary Spellman&#8217;s resignation from Claremont McKenna. It also justified <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/3210-2/">vilifying</a> conservative people of color as &#8220;shady.&#8221; It gives students a &#8220;principled&#8221; reason to <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/safe-spaces-segregate-the-claremont-colleges/">segregated safe spaces</a> based on the color of their skin and <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/cmc-funds-racially-exclusive-program-to-fight-racism/">campus programs that specifically cater to specific races</a> instead of the entirety of the community.
The victim hierarchy that takes absolutely no responsibility for an individual&#8217;s failures or inability to think rationally when they get challenged by the real world&#8217;s dilemmas spells doom for our country. This should not be the kind of community that any college campus should foster. Unfortunately, The Student Life only ensures that students from the Claremont College seem mentally and intellectually unfit to take the bull by the horns and make a substantial impact in the real world.
There are <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/pitzer-college-vp-defends-racist-ras-despite-college-presidents-condemnation/">several</a> <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/hispanic-pitzer-student-criticized-for-denying-the-word-trump-is-hate-speech/">reasons</a> <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/pitzer-senate-yacht-club-is-too-offensive/">why</a> <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/pitzer-senate-dreamcatchers-foundation-tabled-indefinitely-due-to-cultural-appropriation/">I refuse</a> to donate to my alma mater. The Student Life&#8217;s opinion section and its blatant political bend in its news reporting display most of them without fail.
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Claremont Colleges’ Newspaper: ‘Hate Speech Is Not Free Speech’

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Once again, Scripps College, an all-women&#8217;s college in Claremont, California, demonstrates why Matthew Vadum of Frontpage Magazine <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262780/scripps-most-racist-college-america-matthew-vadum">called</a> it &#8220;the most racist college in America.&#8221; The same college whose student body produced a 217-page <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/scripps-unofficial-survival-guide-criticizes-free-speech-white-people/">student guide</a> that said that a general hatred of white people is a &#8220;legitimate response to &#8220;oppression&#8221; and had <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/safe-spaces-segregate-the-claremont-colleges/">racially-segregated</a> safe spaces in its on-campus coffee shop outdid itself in defending racist and anti-Semitic vulgarities in a public forum.
Elliot Dordick <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/scripps-students-defend-death-to-amerikkka-f-white-people-as-valued-speech/">wrote</a> in The Claremont Independent that students wrote phrases like &#8220;F*** Zionism&#8221;, &#8220;F*** white people&#8221;, &#8220;Death to AmeriKKKa&#8221; on the chalkboard walls of the Motley, the on-campus coffee shop run and managed by students. The coffee shop describes itself as &#8220;&#8220;an intersectional, political, and feminist business&#8221; with a mission &#8220;to foster independent thinking and purposeful change.&#8221;
In response to complaints about the messages, Scripps administrators told the Motley managers to remove them. The student managers complied, but wrote the following message expressing their strong disapproval of the administrators&#8217; demands:
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&#8220;We are complying with the college, but we will not do so quietly. We call into question the swiftness with which Scripps College responds to speech that challenges systematically privileged identities, and we challenge the community to think critically about what speech makes them feel uncomfortable versus unsafe. We want the students who wrote these statements to know that their perspectives are valued in this space and that we will continue to resist Scripps&#8217;s effort to silence these perspectives in public spaces such as The Motley. We recognize that erasing this board works to reinforce systems of power and oppression, and therefore we will not let this be where we let the story end. We urge the community to challenge each other and ourselves, and to destroy white supremacy, white privilege, colonialism, fascism, and (neo)liberalism on campus.&#8221;
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According to the fascist leftists running the Motley, saying anti-American, racist, and anti-Semitic statements in supposedly inclusive environment is &#8220;valued&#8221; in their discourse. Naturally, if someone had replaced &#8220;white&#8221; with &#8220;black&#8221; or &#8220;Hispanic,&#8221; these leftists would go on a <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/cmc-students-feel-marginalized-demand-resources-and-resignations/">ballistic tirade</a> similar to those Claremont leftists had after the former Dean of Students at Claremont McKenna College sent a poorly-worded email to a student, resulting in her <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/dean-spellman-resigns-following-student-protest/">resignation</a>. Nevertheless, these students find it valuable to speak ill of others who disagree with their infantile beliefs ranging from intersectionality to multiculturalism instead of engaging in thoughtful, intellectual dialogue that would challenge their beliefs.
The hypocrisy of campus leftists in Claremont is fathomless. However, as I <a href="http://tsl.news/opinions/4081/">foretold three years ago</a> when I was a student at Pitzer College, more individuals will continue to shun the Claremont Colleges as long as their students continue to act like a bunch of spoiled, elitist brats in pursuit of their over $60k per year education. Whoever pays these kids&#8217; tuitions will not be getting a good return on their investment.
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&#8220;We want the students who wrote these statements to know that their perspectives are valued in this space and that we will continue to resist Scripps&#8217;s effort to silence these perspectives in public spaces such as The Motley.&#8221;
The Motley student managers
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Yes, these students have every right to speak their mind. However, they should live with the consequences of their illiberal, anti-American, and racist behavior both while they are in college and when they enter the real world.
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