The level of violence at UC Berkeley is becoming a real concern. Most students will not be assaulted unless they are vocal conservatives, but the effect on open discussion and debate is catastrophic. This is the most recent of many assaults. I’m discouraging son 1 from attending if he’s accepted.
@missiondad One of my siblings goes there. The news likes to dramatize everything. In reality most students get along with each other just fine. Similar events happened at my campus. Students witness one thing the news reports another. They gotta sell a story somehow. What I would do is judge the school not based on incidents such as these. It’s a great school with lots of great people.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply and of course the majority of students are great people. But check out the video of this kid getting bloodied, the professor hitting the kid with the bike lock, the students who blocked passage of any white students, the riots because a speaker who was not a leftist was invited to speak. There is something very wrong going on there, and there Re many great schools where a student will not be bullied or beaten.
Son lived about an hour from Berkeley and applied, but likely would have not attended even if accepted. Visited the campus multiple times for history/quiz bowl competitions and hated the city and didn’t get a good vibe from the campus.
And most of the protesters would likely not be Asian students. Lot of the rabble rousers are outsiders (the professional demonstrators).
I agree with the OP too many episodes of violent protests at Berkeley. https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-berkeley-protests-20170827-story.html
Good video of the kinds of students you can encounter at Berkeley in the humanities and social sciences: https://youtu.be/78evEmr09A0?t=230
Plenty of lulz in there.
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Similar line of thinking…
Mina Castro said that harassment of conservative students is so common these days that she felt nervous about leaving Williams at the table alone as she sat in a class.
When she returned to the table, she found her concerns had been well-founded.
“I saw our sign ripped up, all our papers were on the floor, Hayden was covering his [injured] eye,” Castro told Fox News. “I said ‘Oh my God, what happened?’”
“He said that a guy had just punched him in the face.”
She added that when she tweeted about the incident, she received hateful messages from people applauding the violence.
“One woman called me a white supremacist,” she said. “I said ‘Wait, I’m Latina!’”
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