They’re bringing us together with their intersectional piety:

Gettysburg College has postponed a painting and writing event hosted by its Gender Sexuality and Resource Centre for people who are “Tired of white cis men.” The private Pennsylvania college offered the event as part of a peace and justice, or “P&J,” senior project, but has since postponed it after it was shared online. The event, originally scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 12, told people to “come paint and write about” how they are tired of straight, white men. The pieces from the event would then be displayed in the school’s dining hall for the campus to view.

For a mere $76,000 a year, you too can receive such lofty moral instruction.

Update, via the comments:

Connor adds, “It’s like everything they say has to be reversed.”

Well, yes, frequently. It’s not obvious, for instance, how “peace” would be achieved by cultivating a pretentious and competitive disdain for one’s classmates, and for random passers-by, based on their sex and skin colour. It’s also somewhat doubtful that the supposedly oppressive and fatigue-inducing properties of any other racial demographic would be a basis for an art event at an upscale college.

But as Lionel Shriver once put it, “Progressives seem especially prone to disguising one feeling as another.” And so, a contrived, self-flattering resentment – and outright bigotry – become acts of woke piety. And students are encouraged to believe that badmouthing people based on their skin colour is a thing one does in order to bond and make friends, and to impress others and thereby become statusful.

The Independent, inevitably, uses the term “conservative backlash” to account for the postponement of the event, which, we’re told, wasn’t officially endorsed by the college. It was, it seems, merely something in the air. As it so often is in progressive academia.

And only “conservative activists” – complete with implied disapproval and rumblings about recruiting others – warrant a mention. As if the only activism to be concerned about were that of those objecting to the assumptions and sentiments on display. We’re told that students were merely invited to “express their feelings about America’s dominant identity group.” Though any feelings were clearly assumed by the organiser to be necessarily negative, as if no demurral were conceivable. As if resentment and fatigue were the prevailing fashion, the only right answers.

It is, I think, curious that so many students should begin exhibiting sentiments of this kindand others much like them, often quite emphatically, upon exposure to academia’s Clown Quarter. A fiefdom of the woke. But that kind of activism, which is much more pervasive and indeed institutional, needn’t concern us, it seems.

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