So At What Point, Exactly, Did You Become This Colossal Bitch?
As noted here recently, it’s remarkable just how often “social justice” activism is difficult to distinguish from spite and petty malice. If another example is needed, here’s how some educators at Marquette University plan to cope with a visit from Ben Shapiro:
Chrissy Nelson, the programme assistant at the Centre for Gender and Sexualities Studies, claimed that she “just got off the phone with one of the directors of diversity on campus” and received a suggestion to reserve a seat as a student to “take a seat away from someone who would actually go” and then not attend the event. “This is what I will be advising students to do,” she adds. “Take a seat away from a student that would be interested in going.”
Remember, this isn’t the plotting of a moody and vindictive teenager. It’s a supposedly adult member of staff. One employed by the university’s Centre for Gender and Sexualities Studies, the stated goal of which is “the pursuit of knowledge and dialogue.” And hence the attempt to ensure that no-one gets to hear a speaker with whom Ms Nelson disagrees. Before devoting her energies to sabotaging other people’s evenings, Ms Nelson majored in “sociology and social justice,” which may explain her enacting of that great egalitarian maxim, “I don’t like, so you can’t have.”
Note the unspoken but blatant disdain for any students who might wish to hear Shapiro speak and ask him questions, or who might want to challenge him on some point – an activity he encourages with lengthy Q&A sessions. Ms Nelson is quite happy to deny all of those students that chance, by overriding their preferences in an underhand manner and imposing her own, selfish will. It’s the antithesis of what a university is supposed to be about, and yet it’s an attitude that’s increasingly come to define what that institution now is.
[ Updated via the comments. ]
“Directors of diversity?”
Nope, can’t top that.
Christina Nelson, lover of dialogue.
Ms Nelson’s listed skills include “public relations.”
Well, ideological diversity was never on the cards anyway…
Presumably inspired by the great “social justice” maxim of “I don’t like, so you can’t have.”
And its corollary, “I don’t have, so you can’t like.”
Hopp Singg,
This is slightly off topic, but speaking of directors…
At Kirtland Air Force Base, the US Air force has a group developing directed-energy weapons, e.g. lasers.
In the conventional USAF way, this group is organized as a “directorate”.
( http://www.kirtland.af.mil/Units/AFRL-Directed-Energy-Directorate )
It therefore has a Director.
Thus my personal ultimate job-title-improvement goal:
to become the Director of the Directed Energy Directorate.
I promise never to use that office to, ahem, affect any other random Directors who may be lying around.
(Although, as xkcd points out in https://what-if.xkcd.com/117/ , there is a candidate for a better job title: Planetary Protection Officer.)
But soon there’d be a “Director of the Directed Energy Directorate” Studies program that would only criticize your shirt….
Btw .., and I’m heading for bed, will see your reply in the morn … did you write the post title, David, before or after you viewed Chrissy Nelson’s “listed skills?”
programme assistant at the Centre for Gender and Sexualities Studies…. one of the directors of diversity on campus
Two jobs and indeed two whole departments that need not exist right there.
Not entirely unrelated. The thread may entertain.
OT (though by no means entirely), but if anyone needs cheering up after all this spite and madness, this interview with Eastwood pere et fils is very touching. http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a46893/double-trouble-clint-and-scott-eastwood/
Esquire: Collecting wives is an expensive hobby.
Clint Eastwood: Yeah, cut out the middleman. Just find somebody you hate and buy ‘em a house.
Christina Nelson, lover of dialogue.
More like lover of doughnuts, amirite?
I’ll get my coat.
Looks like old “Chrissy” might take up several seats, she is built to block chairs.
@Craig
Indeed, “colossal” being very apt.
Chrissy Nelson, the programme assistant at the Centre for Gender and Sexualities Studies…
From her photo, I surmise she’s in charge of the involuntary celibacy curriculum.
Before devoting her energies to sabotaging other people’s evenings, Ms Nelson majored in “sociology and social justice.”
But of course.
Presumably inspired by the great “social justice” maxim of “I don’t like, so you can’t have.”
Sounds like an admission she’d lose a debate with him.
Sounds like an admission she’d lose a debate with him.
Yes, pretty much. At his lectures, Mr Shapiro makes a point of encouraging debate. Roughly half of the available time is devoted to answering questions, often at length, and often from students who disagree. It’s hard to see how much more he could do to accommodate dissent and the testing of assumptions.
But evidently, for some, that simply won’t do.
For more on the remarkably vigorous efforts to stop students hearing Shapiro, see here.
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Note the unspoken but blatant disdain for any students who might wish to hear Shapiro speak and ask him questions, or who might want to challenge him on some point. Ms Nelson is quite happy to deny all of those students that chance, by overriding their preferences in a spiteful, underhand manner and imposing her own, selfish will. It’s the antithesis of what a university is supposed to be about, and yet it’s an attitude that’s increasingly come to define what that institution now is.
Evergreen.
Remember, this isn’t the plotting of a moody and vindictive teenager. It’s a supposedly adult member of staff.
They don’t want to grow up, do they?
What would happen if she decided you shouldn’t have your eclair? Thinking the staff lunchroom has lots of empty chairs too.
They don’t want to grow up, do they?
There is an air of delinquency. I suppose it may in part be a result of spending so much time surrounded by teenagers and taking their dramas terribly seriously. And being surrounded by other arrested adolescents, who, like Ms Nelson, went from being a student of a joke subject to an employee of a joke department at the same university. Also, the personalities attracted to spending lots of time and money studying “social justice” may tend to be of a certain type.
It must be nice living in a world where even your most boorish behavior can be justified because, you know, you’re all about justice.
And then to be paid handsomely for it, too. No wonder it’s a growth industry.
“This is what I will be advising students to do,” she adds. “Take a seat away from a student that would be interested in going.”
Setting a great example for the kids there.
If the link is her LinkedIn page she has spent her entire academic life at one university not a recipe for good broad based professional development.
Setting a great example for the kids there.
Quite.
Crawford 12.09.
OMG. I read the article at that link. Everyone should read it to know what you are up against. For those who think it (and the Whack-a-do comments) are TL;DR, I can summarise it thus:
‘Shut up and do as you are told’.
There, that’s nice and simple. When a person higher on the victimhood totem speaks then just, ‘Shut up and do as you are told’.
Setting a great example for the kids there.
Note too that Ms Nelson and an unnamed member of “diversity” staff are wary of Shapiro using any physical disruption on their part to illustrate the censoriousness of the left – a common theme of his lectures – and so they decide to resort to covert censoriousness. Which doesn’t count, apparently.
More here.
and so they decide to resort to covert censoriousness. Which doesn’t count, apparently.
It’s not covert now. 🙂
and so they decide to resort to covert censoriousness. Which doesn’t count, apparently.
They want to shut down free speech without being *seen* to shut down free speech.
#Bravery
She looks like the type that eats Cheez Whiz right out of the can.
Usually Wisconsin beefers like Chrissy are pretty friendly and upbeat, but I guess the shaved side-wall hair-do is nature’s way of telling you “Don’t reach across the nacho plate if Chrissy’s at the table, you’ll lose an arm.”
Soooo, I’ve discovered I’m racist because of my race. To which I say, so what?
They want to shut down free speech without being *seen* to shut down free speech.
Correction: they WANT to be seen shutting down free speech. Because it’s WROOOOONG!!!
I think Chrissy might be behind this feminist conspiracy to geld Doctor Who. Or at least make him wear a sparkly cocktail dress and an unconvincing beehive hairpiece… http://bit.ly/2kQGqJk …while singing ‘I will survive’ and a spirited medley from Cabaret.
RE: . . . “and received a suggestion to reserve a seat as a student . . .”
And no one suggested the need to reserve 2 seats as a big-boned intellectual?
Yes, keep in mind the children are our future . . . sigh . . .
Is stupidity a job requirement for a university administrator?
who, like Ms Nelson, went from being a student of a joke subject to an employee of a joke department
It is worth noting that, as such jobs are limited, competition is fierce. Also, clearly defined qualifications are difficult to assess. The winner, then, will be either the most unscrupulous and amoral in competing/will to power, the most nepotistically connected, or (by definition) the individual who is the biggest joke.
None of which seem very healthy.
Well, I hope this happens and dozens of seats are empty. When Milo gets word of this, and if seats are empty, I’m pretty sure he will just go outside and ask any of his supporters that if they want to come in and get seated they are welcome.
It is worth noting that, as such jobs are limited, competition is fierce.
Not in my experience. The position is usually either created ex nihilo for a specific person, or else granted to a pre-selected protege of an existing administrator or professor. Competition? These snowflakes (literally) don’t know the meaning of the word.
Probably should have said there’s a large pool, rather. Which avails to a different sort of competition – the one in class to become teacher’s pet, to most perfectly innovate on nonsense while parroting and thus lay the grounds for the nepotism to follow.
Director of Diversity? It sounds like “directing” has become a euphemism for “dictating”.
On a similar note:
“My job is to shut other white people down”.
@Lancastrian Oik
My job is to shut other white people down.
It’s extraordinary just how explicitly anti-white the Democrats have become over the last 20 years. They seem not to realise that ‘minorities’ are called that for a reason.
She’d need to book two seats.
I come for the titles. 🙂
Ideal solution – the organizers (knowing the tactic they are up against) should offer stand-by seats in the event of a “sell-out” and advise any no shows by the start of the event will have their seats immediately re-sold.
Yes, hopefully there’s a commercial way of anticipating this tactic, so if there are no shows the event convenors would make more money than they otherwise would. Lefties loss is capitalism’s gain!