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Heather Mac Donald pokes at the ongoing rot of academia:
Earlier this week, several dozen Emory students barged into the school’s administration building to demand protection from “Trump 2016” slogans that had been written in chalk on campus walkways. Acting out a by-now standardised psychodrama of oppression and vulnerability, the students claimed that seeing Trump’s name on the sidewalk confirmed that they were “unsafe” at Emory. College sophomore Jonathan Peraza led the allegedly traumatised students in a chant: “You are not listening! Come speak to us, we are in pain!” As the Emory protesters entered the administration building, they drew on the Communist Manifesto to express their pitiable plight: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
Oddly, the chalk marks made by certain other groups did not induce similar fits of theatrical weeping.
Glenn Reynolds on the same:
When students at Emory University — annual cost of attendance, $63,058 per year — act so foolishly, and worse, are indulged by those who are supposed to supply adult guidance, it gives the appearance that higher education is largely a waste of societal resources. That’s not a good place to be, right now.
Meanwhile, at the University of Virginia:
Students are petitioning for the immediate removal of a conservative student representative who refused to vote in favour of a university-funded group for illegal immigrants.
The student in question dared to use the “offensive” and “xenophobic” factual description of illegal immigrants as, er, illegal. And so he must be punished.
In a class I attended earlier this semester, a large portion of the first meeting was devoted to compiling a list of rules for class discussion. A student contended that as a woman, she would be unable to sit across from a student who declared that he was strongly against abortion, and the other students in the seminar vigorously defended this declaration.
Sitting across a room from someone with whom she disagrees is something that she, as an empowered modern woman, an intellectual, simply cannot do.
And at San Francisco State University, the latest thing, apparently, is identitarian hair policing.*
Feel free to share your own links and snippets in the comments. It’s what these posts are for. *Added via the comments, thanks to RY.
More on Ms Tindle and her wandering hands.
A colleague of Melissa Click claims that the student-assaulting, traffic-disrupting, repeatedly lying professor was fired because white men dislike “women who speak up.” Apparently, her firing is a sign of a “proto-totalitarian” state. And if you find the thuggery and racism of Black Lives Matter protests in any way obnoxious, it’s because you’re a racist.
Why, it’s almost as though lefties project.
Two thoughts:
1. You can’t accuse someone of “cultural appropriation” without engaging in “stereotyping”.
2. Do universities advertise themselves as “intellectual-free zones”? Because they could.
I’m offended that the activist LGBT community deliberately ignores the significant other letters in LGBTQAWTF. I mean, where are THEY gonna take a squat?
Incidentally, regarding the agonies of “problematic” hair, we’ve been her before of course. Several times. And remember, the dogmatic idiocy on display isn’t arrived at by accident. It’s an idiocy that’s been taught.
Re dreadlocks, and “The funny thing is, Ms Tindle presumably imagines herself as terribly progressive and radical.”
Yes, I’m sure she does. Just like, picking a country at random, North Korea.
http://www.complex.com/style/2015/11/kim-jong-un-cracking-down-on-men-with-long-hair
Diversity means everyone MUST think alike about ‘diversity’. Diversity just means White Genocide.
Freedom now from this enforced, coercive, parasitic, anti-white, genocidal diversity. Its a crime, not a ‘policy option’
Bonita? Name a kid after a fish, and you’re going to get an angry kid. Just sayin’.
Burnsie,
Odds are her mother didn’t know what the word meant, just that it sounded “pretty”. In American urban black culture, there almost seems to be competition to come up with the most unique (pronounced yoo-nee-kwa) girls’ names (sometimes boys’ as well); the one with the most “creative” and unpronounceable spelling wins. Perhaps it began as a rejection of “dominate white culture”, but who knows…
(Too be fair, something similar exists in the yuppie/hipster white culture as well. Surnames as first names have been en vogue since the 1980s at least — and spread to middle class suburbia — for long enough that it’s become almost a cliché.)
I remember some comedian back in the 80’s saying the name of an “urban” child was often derived from the model of the car the child was conceived in. “Git in here Tercel, it’s dinner time. And fetch your sister Corolla….”. See, you could make jokes like that back in the 80’s. If you were sufficiently pigmented. Not so much any more.
Well, I know what my name would have been: my parents claimed I was conceived in the back seat of a ’49 Mercury… maybe that’s why I’ve been a “car guy” as long as I can remember.
Odds are her mother didn’t know what the word meant, just that it sounded “pretty”.
Er… am I missing something? “Bonita” means “pretty”, and it’s a common name for girls, not “unique” at all. I assumed Burnsie was making a funny based on the fact that it’s also the name of a fish.
(Too be fair, something similar exists in the yuppie/hipster white culture as well. Surnames as first names have been en vogue since the 1980s at least — and spread to middle class suburbia — for long enough that it’s become almost a cliché.)
. . . . . . . . . . . Almost?!?!!!!!!!!
Um, the fish are bonito aren’t they?
Bonita?
Madonna’s ‘La Isla Bonita’ was released in 1986.
Just a theory
In other you-should-be-paying-me news, students at Smith College have hit upon a new variation on “emotional labor”: paying student activists for all their hard work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV11av4U26U
That’s Harmful Opinions, one of my favorites on Youtube right now. I like his perspective and he has a sense of humor. His “Harmful Remix” series is always good for a laugh; his remix of that stupid Buzzfeed video about feminists with questions for men is probably his best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y72EcQ6a0dU