{"id":1924770,"date":"2023-05-05T03:10:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T07:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rob-schneider-unloads-on-higher-education-a-closed-system-patrolled-by-thought-police\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T03:13:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T07:13:13","slug":"rob-schneider-unloads-on-higher-education-a-closed-system-patrolled-by-thought-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rob-schneider-unloads-on-higher-education-a-closed-system-patrolled-by-thought-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Schneider criticizes higher education as a &#8220;closed system&#8221; with &#8220;thought police.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frob-schneider-unloads-on-higher-education-a-closed-system-patrolled-by-thought-police%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1924770&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Rob Schneider Slams Higher Education as a &#8220;Closed System&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Comedian and actor Rob Schneider didn&#8217;t hold back on Wednesday when he criticized the state of higher education in the United States. Schneider referred to universities as a &#8220;closed system&#8221; guarded by &#8220;thought police.&#8221; His comments came in response to a recent campus protest at Portland State University, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rob-schneider-unloads-on-higher-education-a-closed-system-patrolled-by-thought-police\/\" title=\"Rob Schneider criticizes higher education as a \"closed system\" with \"thought police.\"\">radical trans rights activists disrupted<\/a> and shouted down speakers with whom they disagreed.<\/p>\n<h3>Disruptive Activism<\/h3>\n<p>Philosopher and author Peter Boghossian was one of the speakers at the event, which was meant to discuss whether minors were capable of consenting to puberty blockers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/does-gender-affirming-care-for-trans-kids-actually-prevent-suicide-heres-what-the-data-say\/\" title=\"Does \u2018Gender-Affirming Care\u2019 For Trans Kids Actually Prevent Suicide? Here\u2019s What The Data Say\">cross-sex hormone treatments<\/a>. Boghossian tweeted about the incident, expressing his disappointment that the activists prevented students with sincere objections from engaging in the conversation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Student activists at @Portland_State attempted to disrupt our public conversations today.<\/li>\n<li>I am genuinely embarrassed for the activists and disappointed that they prevented students with sincere objections from engaging us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Schneider responded to Boghossian&#8217;s comments, tweeting that universities in America no longer promote learning or allow debate. He called it a &#8220;closed system of thought run by thought police&#8221; and &#8220;authoritarianism dressed up as tolerance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>. @peterboghossian Universities in America no longer promote learning or allow debate. It\u2019s a closed system of thought run by thought police\u2026 Authoritarianism dressed us as tolerance. https:\/\/t.co\/T5V3hgUfLg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>A Social Justice Factory<\/h3>\n<p>Boghossian knows Schneider&#8217;s sentiments all too well. In 2021, he left his post as a professor of philosophy at Portland State University after a decade, saying that his school had &#8220;sacrificed ideas for ideology.&#8221; He wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/people-feel-treated-like-s-kamala-harris-runs-abusive-office-biden-team-concerned-report-says\/\" title=\"\u2018People Feel Treated Like S***\u2019: Kamala Harris Runs \u2018Abusive\u2019 Office, Biden Team Concerned, Report Says\">scathing resignation letter<\/a>, stating that the university had transformed into a &#8220;Social Justice factory&#8221; that only focused on race, gender, and victimhood.<\/p>\n<p>This latest disruption is just one of many, including a dangerous protest where former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines was forced to barricade herself in a locked classroom for her own physical safety.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that the state of higher education in America is a contentious issue, with many feeling that universities are no longer promoting free thought and debate. It remains to be seen what steps will be taken to address these concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian and actor Rob Schneider made it clear on Wednesday that he was unimpressed with the state of higher education in the United States, referring to universities in general as a \u201cclosed system\u201d that was guarded by \u201cthought police.\u201d Schneider\u2019s observation came in response to yet another campus protest \u2014 this time at Portland State<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1924771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5218,3763,5152,3967,14740,6717,3713,5986],"class_list":["post-1924770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-closed","tag-criticizes","tag-education","tag-police","tag-rob","tag-schneider","tag-system","tag-thought"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1924771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}