SAME UNIVERSITY WHOSE FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATION LED ANGRY, DESTRUCTIVE MOBS AGAINST A FALSELY-ACCUSED FRATERNITY, WITHOUT FACING ANY CONSEQUENCES: A second year medical student has been suspended from the University of Virginia after questioning his professors during a lecture on microaggressions.

Kieran Bhattacharya was suspended from the University of Virginia after the institution alleged Bhattacharya became “unnecessarily antagonistic and disrespectful” during a lecture Bhattacharya says was titled “Microaggressions: Why Are They So Sensitive.”

Bhattacharya published audio recordings, both of the classroom incident that led to his suspension, and of the following disciplinary hearing that led to his suspension.

In the classroom recording, as the lecture concluded and students are allowed to ask questions at approximately 28 minutes in, Bhattacharya took the opportunity to raise several concerns with the professor. . . .

Bhattacharya says he was then summoned by the University of Virginia’s Academic Standards and Achievement Committee for punishment.

During the half hour long meeting, Bhattacharya repeatedly asked what about his behavior was incorrect, and how to remedy it. He was criticized for his decision to record the lecture, and repeatedly told that his “this aggressive, threatening behavior” must be changed.

After repeatedly asking for examples of his unprofessional behavior, one committee member suggested his decision to record the meeting as an example.

They know they’re talking nonsense, and they don’t want donors and taxpayers to realize just how bad things are. So they set out to silence a minority student who’s not buying it.

I recommend a scorched-earth lawsuit. And a Department of Education civil rights investigation.

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WHITE SUPREMACY: IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? NAACP blames ‘white supremacy’ for Portland earthquake signs.

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NEWS YOU CAN USE: How Running Cured My Anxiety — And A Broken Heart. Well, sure. When you run, you feel so bad from the running there’s no room to feel bad about anything else. Sort of like having the stomach flu.

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GRIEVING LEGAL IMMIGRANTS MOURN DEATH OF LEGAL IMMIGRANT AT THE HANDS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT:

This is not one of those incidents in which the press chooses to display its selective compassion.

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WHITER THAN A HUFFINGTON POST EDITORIAL BOARD MEETING:

HOURS BEFORE ORTHODOX CHRISTMAS, BOMB DISPOSAL OFFICER KILLED IN EXPLOSION OUTSIDE CAIRO CHURCH.

A 21ST CENTURY CAUSE OF DEATH: Airborne Fish Proteins. “An 11-year-old boy who died on New Year’s Day after visiting family members in Brooklyn may have had a fatal reaction to fish proteins released into the air while his relatives cooked. The sixth grader, Cameron Jean-Pierre, had asthma and was allergic to fish and peanuts, his father, Steven Jean-Pierre, said on Thursday in an interview with WABC. They had been visiting Cameron’s grandmother in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn, where one of his relatives was making fish, and Cameron had an asthma attack.”

I suppose that people died of this sort of thing in the past, actually, but it was just lost in the noise of so many other people dying for all sorts of reasons.

EVERGREEN HEADLINE: Democrats keep proving how detached they are from reality.

APPLE HAS A MESSAGE FOR AMAZON AND GOOGLE AND IT’S PLASTERED ON THE SIDE OF A HOTEL AT THE BIGGEST TECH CONFERENCE OF THE YEAR: “The message, which takes up about 13 floors of building, says : ‘What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone’ with the URL to Apple’s privacy website. While Apple’s ad focuses specifically on phones, it’s really a broader message about the companies it competes with in multiple industries.”

Sadly though, what happens in your real life doesn’t stay there, as far as Apple CEO Tim Cook is concerned.

SOCIALIST COMPLAINT: Ocasio-Cortez Needs To Stop Grandstanding And Work Hard To Advance Socialism, Like Bernie Sanders Does.

PATRICK POOLE: Suspects Arrested in Murder of 7-Year-Old Jazmine Barnes, But Questions About Media’s Behavior Remain.

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ACE OF SPADES: Chinks In The Democrat Armor? Maybe They Are Reading The Polls That Say That A Clear Majority Of Americans Want Robust Border Security.

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21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: A woman who received a lifesaving donor lung was also left with the donor’s peanut allergy, a phenomenon which has stunned the medical world.

KNOXVILLE: Death of Knoxville fire captain’s son ignites debate over illegal immigration.

The death of 22-year-old Pierce Corcoran has brought home to Knoxville the heated national debate over illegal immigration and the need for a border wall.

Corcoran is the son of Knoxville Fire Capt. D.J. Corcoran, also the department’s spokesman.

Franco Cambrany Francisco-Eduardo, 44, of Oak Ridge, was arrested in connection with the wreck that killed the Grace Christian Academy graduate earlier this week. Police say he swerved into oncoming traffic on Chapman Highway, killing Corcoran on Saturday. He is charged with criminally negligent homicide and driving without a license or insurance.

More at the link. There’s also a Justice for Pierce Corcoran website now.

THE UNBEARABLE HEAVINESS OF CLUTTER. The Insta-Wife and Insta-Daughter are very big on this whole Joy of Less approach (the Insta-Daughter is more into Marie Kondo), and I’m mostly a convert, although if people take it to its logical conclusion and stop buying so much stuff, the economy will probably collapse.