Lessons learned: How to oppose SJW tyranny (1970 style)

The USNavalInstitute Blog discusses how the US Navy ROTC prevented the SJW of the 1970's from shutting down their program.

Full Story HERE

under the guise of anti war protests, activists in New England were pressuring the shut down of ROTC at many colleges there.

At Holy Cross, they did not succeed. why?

the activists were pressuring the faculty, and the "student vote" was not really representative of the campus, and often students only heard one side (the strident side) of the debate.

Based on this assessment, the midshipmen concluded the generally centrist beliefs of the student body could work to the advantage of ROTC if the student vote truly were representative.

The Inter-House Congress (part of the student government) arranged for a student vote to be held 30 September and 1 October that would offer three options: support the majority report, support the minority report, or support neither.

The Navy midshipmen and Air Force cadets organized down to the level of dormitory corridors, posted and distributed flyers advocating support for the minority report, and engaged in extensive personal contact with friends and fellow students.

Supplemented by position papers distributed through campus mail and an information table in the Campus Center, this “get-out-the-vote” campaign emphasized not letting a small minority of students dictate to everyone...

 The results of the vote were decisive: with 55 percent student turnout (the largest in memory), 55 percent supported the minority report; 38 percent supported the majority report; and 7 percent (both pro- and anti-ROTC) supported neither. Shortly after the results were announced, the RSU, through the chairman of the Inter-House Congress, requested a public forum with ROTC advocates be held immediately before the scheduled Faculty-Student Assembly vote on 5 October. The midshipmen declined to participate.

there is a saying: One man with courage is a majority.

These tyrants feel self righteous, but you know, in 35 years of working with the marginalized of society, I didn't run into many of them actually getting their hands dirty helping the victims of their activism (one exception: Those who were religous pacifists, who opposed all wars).

and just as Magsaysay wrote the book on how to stop an "insurgency" by communist "insurgents" in SEAsia, the lessons of the past can point out how the tyranny of the SJW in the USA can be opposed, so as not to allow them to take over the universities.