But Don’t Call Them Hysterical
Victoria Stroup reports a harrowing turn of events at Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin:
Staff from the student conduct, human resources, Title IX, and diversity offices were brought together so they could decide how to respond to the “hateful message.” According to [Vice President for Student development, Tony] Chambers, “the group determined that the message constituted a hate crime, based on guidelines from the Jeanne Clery Act and state law.” He adds the group acted according to college policy and reported the incident to the Madison, Wisconsin Police Department, which is currently investigating it as a “hate crime,” and that it is also being investigated through the college’s Student Conduct Process.
The item deemed so incendiary and deserving of endless meetings and even police involvement? Amid post-election campus hysteria, some wag had left a pink Post-It note on a window, bearing four words: “Suck it up, pussies.”
It’s bad enough these aging children react like this ot the election but when it’s affecting little kids I get really annoyed.
NPR this afternoon had an article about a heavily Mexican / Mexican-American elementary school in Windsor, California, about 1.5 hours driving north of San Francisco. Several 8-year-olds were interviewed, along with their teacher.
The kids, all US citizens, but some with non-citizen parents (i.e illegal aliens) were sobbing openly in fear that they or their parents or friends would be rounded up and deported back to Mexico. One crying kid said he’d been taunted by some neighbor kids. The teacher, who had been illegal up to age 14 when she became legal (probably through one of the periodic amnesties) was soothing, but not much more emotionally stable.
(There had been two instances of graffiti at the school around the election: “Build the wall higher” and “trump 2016”. there had been a counter to this in the form of parents and staff with banners welcoming all to the school.)
So, OK, the kids might have a reason to be upset. But the stark terror they expressed could NOT have come from inside these 8 year old children. It HAD to be in sympathy with what the adults around them were telling them or emoting about.
The whole thing made me sick.
Oh, and I was also treated to an extended interview with an ex-head of the ACLU about how they have a long and successful history of fighting university campus “speech codes”. Great, if true, but gee, isn’t it interesting that I have heard not one peep from these folks on the radio over the last 8 years? Is the subject suddenly interesting JUST NOW for some reason?
It’s clown shoes all the way down…
This is literally genocide.
I just hope when this is over the post it is put in the recycling!
Wut?
Ah, ac1, I misread you. In future please remember that Post-it is a trademark and should be written that way, lest the 3M legal sharks bite your butt.
(see I was wondering just what was going to be over the post, and then… (Oh, who am I kidding. It’s hopeless, innit? My reputation for sagacity and perspicacity, irreparably mangled. Sigh.))
Several 8-year-olds were interviewed, along with their teacher.
It’s always “8-year-olds”. ALWAYS. Not “7-year-olds” or “9-year-olds”, but 8 and only 8.
What the hell are they up to?
These are people unburdened by an excess of mental health.
I’m working on my British understatement. How’m I doing?
I’m working on my British understatement. How’m I doing?
Not half bad.
I’m at a loss to describe these people.
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If I may offer a suggestion:
Wankers
It’s always “8-year-olds”. ALWAYS. Not “7-year-olds” or “9-year-olds”, but 8 and only 8.
What the hell are they up to?
????
Siiiiiiiigggggghhhhh.
Spiny, kindly go have a review of the rules of operation for the Eight Year Olds Declarative Union, just go track down your local Union hall. Along with choice commentary regarding your preference in video games and bubble gum, the representatives at the hall will be more than happy to equally suggestively also point out the lack of those below and above eight years of age in the union . . . .
Fred the fourth,
Your reputation is as solid with me as is mine with you….
/Introduction to fiat currency.
And don’t call them smug and presumptuous either:
The author of the piece, Mr D Watkins, also writes for the Guardian. Naturally.
Speaking of hysterical…
The over-all impression of the meeting from the attendees I spoke with was that Trump showed no signs of having been sobered or changed by his elevation to the country’s highest office. Rather, said one, “He is the same kind of blustering, bluffing blowhard as he was during the campaign.”
As a reader at AoSHQ put it:
*points at scoreboard*
I have to tell you, I am emotionally fucking pissed,” another participant said.
Does some poor dear need a safe space? A binky, perhaps?
This is “journalism” as we’ve come to expect it, sadly. This is why we have Trump.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/donald-trump-personally-blasts-the-press
Dear white working class…
Um. Could we get a bit of clarity here? Is he referring to the three quarters of the possible electorate who chose other than Trump, or is he referring to the three quarters of the possible electorate who chose other than Clinton.?
I have to tell you, I am emotionally fucking pissed,”
I wanna see unemotionally pissed—in means other than drunk off one’s gourd.
Spiny,
7 year olds are too young to be reliably coherent,
And 9 year olds may show a dismaying tendency toward independent thought.
Hence the 8 year olds.
I’ve had two of my own plus nieces and nephews to learn from.
Once the police investigation is complete what will happen to the offending Post-It note?
I think high-quality reproductions (suitable for framing) of the Post-it® note should be framed and hung next to the crucifixes in the classrooms and other buildings on campus.
If only this were restricted to mad Americans. But the mad British are at it too: http://bit.ly/2g1hdd5 Pussies…
I hope that they find the person, that they arrest him or her and put them on trial, and that some law firm picks up the defense pro bono and blows them all up.
Lionel,
Is anything at the Dalston Mercury real? Or is it all satire?
The Dalston Mercury: local, national and global news written the way you want it – without fear, without favour, without bothering too much about the facts.
I think high-quality reproductions (suitable for framing) of the Post-it® note should be framed and hung next to the crucifixes in the classrooms and other buildings on campus.
I presume the t-shirt is already available?
…without bothering too much about the facts.
Who brought the New York Times and The Guardian into this ?
The psychologically sound response to “Suck it up, pussies” is “Fuck you, asshole.”
Followed, in this case, by the crumpling of the note and getting on with your day.
Case closed in under five seconds, the healthy and normal way.
It is a crime how universities are indeed turning these kids into mentally ill hypersensitives. It’s getting insane.
Followed, in this case, by the crumpling of the note and getting on with your day.
Dear white working class… I hope your racism, or your attempt to ignore it, keeps you warm at night.
As a white, self-employed Trump voter myself, allow me to respond to Mr Douchebag Watson (BTW I’m just guessing at that “D”):
Suck it up, pussy.
As I’m colour blind, if I receive a pink post-it(TM) note, is it still a hate crime?