How Dare You Try To Educate Us
Again the audience erupted in shouting, with one young man saying he was upset at her audacity to speak to the audience with such information.
Further to this, Heather Mac Donald visits UCLA and attempts to share statistics with unhappy students.
Ms Mac Donald is of course scolded for her impertinence, loudly, repetitively and at length, and this sharing of relevant data and neglected perspectives is denounced as proof of her supposed embrace of “white supremacy,” and of her “capitalist, imperialist, fascist agenda.” Acknowledging statistics is, we’re told, “violent in itself.” Ah, academia, that temple of the mind.
Update:
And again, only more so, at Claremont McKenna College:
Thirty minutes into the speech, police officers told [Ms Mac Donald] to cut it short, and she was given a four-officer escort through a side door.
You see, if you’re invited to speak on campus and you say things that challenge leftist prejudice, there’s a good chance you’ll need an armed police escort to protect you from the mob of budding intellectuals.
Oh, and that $500 Billion? That’s not any “error”, that’s “skim” and became Democrat Party “walking around money”. It just didn’t buy enough votes in enough states this time ’round.
“Snowflake” suggests something transient and effete, something harmless, which doesn’t capture the psychological malevolence and delight in mob harassment, both of which are signatures of the phenomenon.
Whereas everything in your paragraph is true, it must be remembered that these snowflakes, with but few exceptions, are the truly privileged, and have never really faced any adversity in their useless existences. Their tantrums are always confined to places where they know they will get no real pushback, or face any real adversaries (e.g., “Occupy Oakland” never leaving the Berkeley campus).
In the real world, they are indeed snowflakes because if, or when, normal people get fed up with their crap and start dishing out much needed punishment, extra-judicial corporal or otherwise, or if they get the Kent State moment they they seem to think they want, they will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
In the real world, they are indeed snowflakes because if, or when, normal people get fed up with their crap and start dishing out much needed punishment, extra-judicial corporal or otherwise, or if they get the Kent State moment they they seem to think they want, they will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
In years past, normal people could easily ignore the rantings of these few, given that they were confined to insulated college campuses, and most the students would ultimately grow up once they graduated and obtained their first mortgage. Social media, however, has allowed the loons to broadcast their rantings to the world. The professor I linked above previously could have screamed his invective in peace in the faculty lounge. Now, via Twitter, the whole world knows. (See also, the various harridans populating feminist Tumblr, who heretofore were limited to screaming at their cats or a couple of Shulamith Firestone posters on an otherwise blank wall.)
These people are rousing a sleeping giant, as the election of Trump portends. It will not end well.
Heather Mac Donald was interviewed about her experience by Fox News.
“These people are rousing a sleeping giant, as the election of Trump portends. It will not end well.”
They seem to forget, at least here in the states, which side has the guns…
“allowed the loons to broadcast their rantings to the world”
Not to mention recruit, indoctrinate and organize other potential loons. In the past, each village had an idiot; now the idiots have worldwide association, technology and coordination.
What’s the acknowledged ratio of malcontents to normals required for effective widespread chaos to take hold? Surely there must be some studies on this…
“It will not end well.” I live in hope that it will end very well, with mass casualties for the totalitarians. We never really had a proper cull after the fall of the Berlin Wall like we did with the Nazis. The time is coming when we will have to address that.
At some point, someone will, for the first time in their coddled, sheltered lives, tell them “no” and mean it. It certainly does not appear to be university administrators…
I don’t like to refer to anti-fascists as fascists because I notice that everyone who calls others fascists are bloody fascists.
They said the same thing after 9/11, and that does not seem to have gone as expected.
In other but related news, it looks like a student in Texas has committed suicide after being subjected to a Title IX witch-hunt:
http://watchdog.org/292821/male-accused-student-commits-suicide-school-railroading/