But Work Is So Hard And Indignation Is Easy
Lifted from the comments following this and somewhat pertinent, from the pages of the student newspaper of Brown University:
“There are people breaking down, dropping out of classes and failing classes because of the activism work they are taking on,” said David, an undergraduate whose name has been changed to preserve anonymity. Throughout the year, he has worked to confront issues of racism and diversity on campus. His role as a student activist has taken a toll on his mental, physical and emotional health… David spent numerous hours organising demonstrations with fellow activists. Meanwhile, he struggled to balance his classes and social life with the activism to which he feels so dedicated. Stressors and triggers flooded his life constantly, he said.
Poor lamb. All those triggers. Perhaps someone should take our stressed-out little warrior to one side and explain to him, quite firmly, that neither his parents nor the taxpayer are forking out $60,000 a year for a narcissistic clown to piss about playing activist by railing against phantom “oppression” and non-existent “violence” in one of the most cosseting environments in human history.
Update:
Speaking of students who’d rather be acting out fantasies of oppression than preparing for exams, let’s not forget the Oberlin student activist Della Kurzer-Zlotnick, who was emotionally devastated by a two-letter word that was apparently unknown to her, and which she later described as “violent and triggering language.”
The word, by the way, was no.
Laws against racially-segregated events held on public property are so obviously racist. >_<
Students traumatized by having to listen to Soviet Labor Camp survivor Natan Sharansky
According to the protestors, having an opportunity to hear views they disagree with, including the experiences of a Soviet prison camp survivor, is “an affront to academic freedom.”
And again, note the complicity of faculty – providing “emotional support” to people who think their opponents shouldn’t be allowed to speak.
‘I sense the ghastly Ferranti is manipulating these young people. She doubtless sees universities as ‘centres of resistance’ to capitalism, patriarchy, the West etc. By encouraging and supporting student activism, she imagines she is creating the revolutionary cadres of the future, as that demented windbag Marcuse recommended. And, nauseatingly, she cloaks her disreputable intentions with displays of unctuous concern for her pawns’.
The thing is, when the Little Red Guards go beserk on campus and start looking for people to purge, who’s going to be the first to get it in the neck?
Hmm….I trigger my son many times a day with “no”.
Usually around critical subjects like having an extra 10 minutes playing minecraft or being allowed to stay up a while longer.
I’m training him you see……..