Don’t Oppress My People With Your Branded Headphones
More intellectual life at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire:
“Fuck you, you filthy white fucks!” “Fuck you and your comfort!” “Fuck you, you racist shits!” These shouted epithets were the first indication that many students had of the coming storm. The sign-wielding, obscenity-shouting protesters proceeded through the usually quiet backwaters of the library… and converged around fellow students who had not joined in their long march. They confronted students who bore “symbols of oppression” such as “gangster hats” and Beats-brand headphones.
The flood of demonstrators opened the doors of study spaces with students reviewing for exams. Those who tried to close their doors were harassed further. One student abandoned the study room and ran out of the library. The protesters followed her out of the library, shouting obscenities the whole way. Students who refused to join their outbursts were shouted down: “Stand the fuck up!” “You filthy racist white piece of shit!” Men and women alike were pushed and shoved by the group. “If we can’t have it, shut it down!” they cried. Another woman was pinned to a wall by protesters who unleashed their insults, shouting “filthy white bitch!” in her face.
Vain little monsters projecting their own vices and relishing the sensation of power over others.
Update, via the comments:
Naked malice aside, there’s an almost surreal aspect to consider. The so-called “activists” claim to be besieged by unseen forces and “oppressed” by “structural racism on campus” – a phenomenon they can’t point to or even define convincingly – and yet their own behaviour illustrates the perversity of this pretence. Those acting out their psychodrama clearly assume they can do so with impunity, with no apparent fear of expulsion or reprimand, or physical resistance. And were the tribal roles reversed and a white mob were harassing women, shoving students with browner skin, and screaming racial epithets, the institutional response would doubtless be very, very different.
Even this supporter of the movement, a student who frets about his own “white privilege,” was appalled by the mob’s behaviour:
They kept shouting and started banging on tables. They demanded that people stand up to show their solidarity. Those who did not stand were targeted and questioned. There was a girl studying in one of the study rooms… and the protestors stormed the room. She closed the door on one of the protestors which resulted in rage from many protestors. The girl then exited silently through the crowd while protestors screamed at her calling her a white bitch. At one point the protestors crowded around a guy sitting at his laptop and stared at him, screaming at him, ‘If we can’t study, you can’t study.”
And,
After making a girl cry, a protestor screamed “Fuck your white tears.”
Don’t you just love that Maoist vindictiveness? It’s what utopia is made of.
Update 2, via Spiny Norman in the comments, the narcissistic psychodrama reaches level 2:
Dartmouth College has responded to intensely negative national media coverage over a Black Lives Matter protest that harassed white students by issuing an apology, not to the students who were harassed, but instead to the protesters themselves for being subject to conservative criticism… During a Monday night community discussion at the school’s black affinity dormitory, vice provost for student affairs Inge-Lise Ameer apologised to protesters for the hostile coverage their protest received. “There’s a whole conservative world out there that’s not being very nice,” Ameer said to the protesters.
And,
College president Phil Hanlon sent out a campus-wide email that affirmed the importance of treating people with “dignity and respect” but made no mention of the Thursday protest that obviously prompted it.
As I said, impunity.
Update 3:
Those with a taste for ludicrous emotional theatre may enjoy this video, in which Dartmouth’s vice provost for student affairs apologises to the gathered “activists” for the unflattering media coverage of their racist thuggery. Thuggery that, she insists, was “a wonderful, beautiful thing.” Her dismissal of critics as “conservatives,” and therefore the enemy, prompts animated applause, spurring one of the students to shout, “They’re fucking racists!” By which he means, people who drew attention to the students’ own overtly racist behaviour. Such is the effrontery of it, the colossal vanity. An inversion of reality actively encouraged, structurally encouraged, by so-called educators. This is what happens when your Designated Victim Group is a protected class.
There are plenty of people in this world who can rightly be called oppressed, some horrifically so. And none of them are spending $60,000 a year to piss about on an Ivy League campus, while bemoaning the trauma of seeing white people wearing fashionable headphones.
Update 4:
Just in case any doubt remains.
“Let’s give a round of applause for the beautiful people of colour who were here for this protest.”
“You filthy racist white piece of shit!”
I couldn’t cut it as a ‘progressive’. I couldn’t handle the cognitive dissonance.
I couldn’t handle the cognitive dissonance.
Well, no. It would be quite a task. And all that competitive posturing must be exhausting. Thankfully, narcissists aren’t generally known for their self-awareness, a lack of which leaves lots of scope for even quite vivid self-contradiction.
Words are violence, but pushing and shoving people isn’t.
Isn’t doublethink wonderful?
The white people being screamed at and shoved about should sue the university for creating ‘a hostile environment’. Sauce for the goose.
This is really starting to look like it crosses the line into criminal behavior. At least a good dose of pepper spray should be justifiable to make such thugs bugger off.
In no way related to the above:
From this, by Eliot A Cohen, on tantrums, hysteria and spinelessness.
Another woman was pinned to a wall by protesters who unleashed their insults, shouting “filthy white bitch!” in her face.
The message I’m getting from this ‘protest’ is we should go back to racially segregated colleges. That’s what they were going for, isn’t it?
Ah, the joy of being a part of a lawless mob who’s members can’t be held individually accountable. The rightness of harassing those who are too selfish to support your cause. After all, the movement is everything; life outside the movement is privilege and therefore an assault.
Ah, the joy of being a part of a lawless mob whose members can’t be held individually accountable.
Well, it’ll be interesting to see whether any of the disruption, abuse and thuggery results in suspensions or expulsions. Though I suspect not. And I’d imagine quite a few of the ‘protestors’ assume their impunity too. There’s also the fact that some faculty and staff are either sympathetic to, or titillated by, pseudo-radical vanity. Note the participation of an undergraduate advisor. The rest may simply be frightened of reprimanding thugs with black skin – which, for some, is practically taboo, even in cases of brutal and unprovoked assault – and thereby risking escalation and more bad press. This is a consequence of creating a Designated Victim Group, a protected class. It’s a license for bad behaviour and opportunist thuggery.
As any parent should know.
“The message I’m getting from this ‘protest’ is we should go back to racially segregated colleges. That’s what they were going for, isn’t it?”
Well just as long as Whitey McRacist is paying for everything presumably.
So they’re “fighting racism” by shoving white students around and calling them “filthy white bitches”? Imagine how quickly you’d get expelled if the roles were reversed.
Fascists
The truth that must not be spoken: A lot of black Americans are viciously racist.
“Fuck you and your comfort!”
Says the upper-middle class student whose parents can afford $60,000 a year for the Ivy League tuition of their little princess.
There is just so much potential profit here to harvest by skilled litigation lawyers, I surprised the fee-chasing sharks haven’t been circling these campus assault events.
I think this will stop when some universities are sued for not providing security from physical assault and slander.
And here’s an ethnic variation on the mindset above. Do click through the screengrabs.
They confronted students who bore “symbols of oppression” such as “gangster hats” and Beats-brand headphones
Eh? Blacks are confronting white students for wearing gangsta symbols of oppression? How does that work?
Well, as a tune it’s undeniably catchy, but the chorus does go on a bit.
Meanwhile, on this side of the Atlantic an event at the University of York, planned to coincide with International Men’s Day this week, that was to have advertised “the availability of mental health and welfare support which we know men are sometimes reluctant to access” has been cancelled because:
The Equality and Diversity Committee is clear that the main focus of gender equality work should continue to be on the inequalities faced by women, and in particular the under-representation of women in the professoriate and senior management.
In it’s place, they believe that “meaningful progress” can be made by “putting in place new structures to extend and strengthen our approach to the Athena Swan awards, which provide a framework for our work on gender equality.”
Jess Phillips MP would be proud.
Gangster hat.
No?
Beats studying. Probably earned them an “A” in their various grievance courses, and all they had to do was rough up a few whiteys.
Came across a phrase (apologies if it was from here) t’other day: cry-bullies.
That’s what we have now: a lot of crying (and wailing) and a great deal of bullying. But I am with those who think that if whites are so unquestionably evil then black people should not be tainted with their presence, so therefore segregation is the only way to go. The blacks will not feel oppressed if there are no nasty white around wearing hats and headphones — not, I would have thought, great when studying, but I am old-fashioned — but we must protect them with large safe zones where the black folk are free to flower and grow and be happy away from white bitches. Especially any who applaud them.
Is Archimedes Plutonium still at Dartmouth?
Time for other students to start carrying, and using, firearms.
I cannot confirm rumours that Archie recently stormed into the Boston Public Library protesting discrimination against geniuses with plutonium atoms at the centre of their brains.
“Beats studying.” (by Burnsie @ 15:50)
Is that done with Beats-brand headphones? 🙂
It’s obviously a “win-win” situation for them. They know the powers that be at Dartmouth will not discipline them nor will they be criminally charged. They also know that if one of the students they choose to assault attempts to fight back, the university will ignore all common sense notions of self-defense and destroy the true victim of the assault in favor of the faux victims attending an Ivy League school where tuition is a little less than $62,000 per year.
Apparently (I can’t confirm this) in a similar vein quite a few of the occupied (although somehow entirely governed, defended and policed by Hamas) Palestinians in Gaza are a little bit prejudiced against Jews.
They confronted students who bore “symbols of oppression” such as “gangster hats” and Beats-brand headphones
Eh? Blacks are confronting white students for wearing gangsta symbols of oppression? How does that work?
It’s not that it works, it’s that what you’ve got is hipsters vs hipsters with students getting caught in the middle . . . .
[i]“Look at those guys playing Frisbee — that is the definition of privilege,” said one speaker.
The students stopped playing Frisbee and left the area.[/i]
America.txt
The [ & < keys are right next to each other, I swear.
Re: The Gangster Hat
I seem to recall a photo on this blog of Laurie Penny sporting one of those. Ah yes, found it. I hope I’m not creating some irreversible hipster/gangster/victim/hashtag vortex.
I hope I’m not creating some irreversible hipster/gangster/victim/hashtag vortex.
Nah. Yer just noting what’s already been, and has quite utterly been fer rather awhile . . . .
Laurie Penny
Professional Feminist
BBC Breakfast
as in, the picture made me lose mine …
Men and women alike were pushed and shoved by the group. “If we can’t have it, shut it down!” they cried. Another woman was pinned to a wall by protesters who unleashed their insults, shouting “filthy white bitch!” in her face.
Not really helping their argument that criminal black men get shot unfairly.
Not really helping their argument
It is quite bizarre. The opportunist thugs pretend to be “oppressed” by “structural racism on campus” – a phenomenon they can’t point to or even define convincingly – and yet their own behaviour illustrates the perversity of their claim. The so-called ‘protestors’ clearly assume they can act with impunity, with no apparent fear of expulsion or reprimand, and were the roles reversed and a white mob were harassing and shoving students with browner skin, screaming racial epithets, the response would doubtless be very, very different.
Even this supporter of the movement, a student who frets about his own “white privilege,” was appalled by the mob’s behaviour:
And,
Don’t you just love that Maoist vindictiveness?
The so-called “activists” claim to be besieged by unseen forces and “oppressed” by “structural racism on campus” – a phenomenon they can’t point to or even define convincingly – and yet their own behaviour illustrates the perversity of this pretence. Those acting out their psychodrama clearly assume they can do so with impunity, with no apparent fear of expulsion or reprimand, or physical resistance. And were the tribal roles reversed and a white mob were harassing women, shoving students with browner skin, and screaming racial epithets, the institutional response would doubtless be very, very different.
All of that.
All of that.
Well, it’s strange when what you’re presented with is a near-total inversion of reality. The well-heeled “protestors” are in no meaningful sense “oppressed” by “structural racism on campus” (to say nothing of the supposedly distressing sight of white people wearing fashionable headphones). In fact, they’re quite the opposite. They’re a Designated Victim Group, i.e., a protected class, to which special favours are frequently extended, from preferential admissions policies (including at Dartmouth and equivalent to at least 15 IQ points) to preferential treatment following classroom misbehaviour. All sanctioned by the state – and how “structural” is that?
Apparently, this favouritism now includes a unilateral license to indulge in racial bullying.
Gangster Hat: band name
There will come a point at which even the Dartmouth-esque cowed wimps will stop putting up with this. Then a “protestor” will get hurt.
Then a “protestor” will get hurt.
All it will take is one well-thrown punch and this crap will stop. And the nice thing, given the SWJs narcissistic penchant for self-promotion, their own video evidence will suffice to prove they were the aggressors.
May I attempt some explanations?
Fuck you are your comfort: Whites have, by and large, comfortable, peaceful, prosperous lives, while the rest of world lives in struggle, squalor and misery. What explains this inequity? It cannot be that whites have earned their comforts, just as the rest deserve their squalor. How do we know? Because equality! This means that the price of white prosperity must be the oppression of those they “other” [pardon the expression]. Remedy? Agitate! Take their comforts, money, power and status, and redistribute it the oppressed. How? Community organization.
What we are witnessing is Alinsky community organizing come to the universities. See Organizing for America.
If we can’t have it, shut it down: The university confers wealth, power and status on those who succeed in it. But it confers those social goods unequally. Historically, whites do much better than blacks at university. But equality tells us that this outcome can occur only through oppression. The standards used by universities must therefore be designed to favor whites over others, just as so-called “justice” favors whites over others: see the racial disparities in the prisons. So, the university is an instrument of oppression. Remedy? Agitate! Burn the universities and their books; destroy their standards of intellectual excellence. Replace them with institutions that favor the oppressed over the oppressor. Repeat until equality is achieved.
For example, create a popular culture in which the oppressed excel, to the almost total exclusion of others. See Gangster Rap, and the NBA.
The so-called ‘protestors’ clearly assume they can act with impunity.
Isn’t that exactly what one would expect with the Agitator in Chief in the White House?
It’s the effrontery of it, the colossal vanity. There are plenty of people in this world who can rightly be called oppressed, some horrifically so – and none of them are spending $60,000 a year to piss about on an Ivy League campus.
The opportunist thugs pretend to be “oppressed” by “structural racism on campus” – a phenomenon they can’t point to or even define convincingly – and yet their own behaviour illustrates the perversity of their claim.
“Can’t point to”? The equality premise(TM) says that all men are equal. Any inequality is therefore proof positive of some injustice, some oppression of one group by another. What more could one want by way of proof?
Their “thuggish” behavior, they would say, is necessarily brutal because all you white-privileged folk don’t want to give up you wealth, power, and status. So, they have to “bring a gun to the knife fight” until they get all their stuff back! This is community organizing 101. They learned it from the Community Organizer in Chief: see Organizing for America.
“oppressed by “structural racism” = Admitted only due to racial quota system. Constantly aware of being academically inferior. Cannot accept responsibility. Has to find scapegoat. Finds personal fulfillment in a fascistic ideology of racial grievance.
@Nick
And of course, they rely on the good will and etiquette of the “oppressor” in order to achieve their ends. Note that the only “objection” to the behavior consisted of students attempting to leave to study in peace. Had some of the students, who, along with their parents, were borrowing the money to obtain an Ivy League education decided to fight back, the outcome might have been different.
Of course, fighting back is what the Alinsky acolytes want as it will be taken as proof of their thesis. So be it. The alternative is an educational system that more resembles the Cultural Revolution than education in the classic Western sense.
It’s the effrontery of it:
Right. The SJ enterprise is a dishonest attempt to legalize theft and thuggery. It’s a slightly more sophisticated way for some to vote themselves a share of other people’s goods. It’s also quicker than waiting for sclerotic governments to invent new forms of handouts.
With so few protesters and such marvelous technology available to quickly mobilize a response, I’m shocked that the old school solution from back in the day hasn’t yet been activated. With a half dozen texts / tweets quickly shared, any university/college could have a dozen frat houses each send a dozen high-testosterone young guys (plus the every white male student athlete on campus) to the location of any such “protest” and they would eagerly with great relish beat the living snot outta these uncouth animals! It would only take 2 or 3 epic beat-downs lasting less than 5 minutes per episode to send these professional $#!t disturbers running for their lives. There’s nothing like a black eye, a split lip, and a couple of loose teeth to quickly snuff out one’s willingness to stir the pot for a bogus bull$#!t cause … whose “supporters” are almost definitely paid by a Soros front.
… have a dozen frat houses each send a dozen high-testosterone young guys … [to} … beat the living snot outta these uncouth animals!
Well, once upon a time that was how gentlemen dealt with miscreants. Now it would land you in jail with a life-long criminal record. The community-organizing thugs have mau-maued the flak-catchers in the administration into writing speech codes that criminalize civil opposition to them. And Obama and his race-hustling gangsters have legitimized violent “protests”. See Ferguson and Baltimore; and see the DOJ occupation of police forces around the country designed to prevent the police from enforcing the laws against black criminals.