I understand why the idiot children at Yale are so sensitive. Really, I do. I sometimes list in my mind all of the poor, suffering people who get a raw deal in this life, and Yale students are always right at the top, with the Bangladeshi orphans and women traded by sex traffickers in Vietnam. Yale isn't a safe space, Congo isn't a safe space - it all makes sense, as long as you don't expect it to make sense.
No, genocide isn't a joke. I'm sure that the women and children being raped to death by Boko Haram appreciate that the idiot children at Yale are making stern faces and pumping their fists. As for me, I think that they're clowns, and worse than that, really: They're bad citizens, and defective people from defective families. They aren't motivated by good will, but by fear: of the dawning realization that they, as people, aren't really all that important, despite having been told all their lives how important they are.
-- Kevin D. Williamson on Yale's Idiot Children
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I have so much love for that whole article and all the follow up pieces at that site.
The timeout and everyone gets a trophy generation are a bunch of whiny, self-important bitches.
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“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
There is a certain strain of upper-middle-class American culture that cultivates an excess of self-importance that grows cancerous when it isn’t counteracted by a deep understanding that the world is full of things that are much more important than you are: God, country, the rest of the human race.
Bah. I'm pretty sure the Ayatollah loves his god and country. He's still a dick. If the American Revolution had been headed up by people who loved their country, you'd have bad teeth and be talking with a funny accent. As far as "the rest of the human race," I can think of all kinds of state dictators who thought they were going to bring about the a new golden age ... if only all those nonbelievers would get out of the way.
That American striver culture has many invaluable aspects — it is the culture that produces the high-achieving students who go to Yale and other elite institutions — but in the absence of transcendent values it turns everybody into a miniature Donald Trump. If your concerns in life are limited to personal economic advancement and status whoring, then everything — literally — is about you.
Eh, half credit. First sentence is bullshit. The second half isn't.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
There is a certain strain of upper-middle-class American culture that cultivates an excess of self-importance that grows cancerous when it isn’t counteracted by a deep understanding that the world is full of things that are much more important than you are: God, country, the rest of the human race.
Man, what? Two artificial concepts and an unfocused mob are more important than the individual? Check minus.
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
-- John Gardner
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
For this reason, it is high time that serious structural alterations be made to higher education. Our aspirations are untainted: free tuition via a University open to all, abolition of the police and prisons, free and collectivized housing and food, and more. There are many smaller steps needed to realize this, so here we set out a program to lay the groundwork for this vision. Many of these demands are not new. Hence, we honor the workers and students in groups such as Student Action with Workers, Students United for Immigrant Equality, Sierra Student Coalition, and the Board of Governors Democracy Coalition, among many others, and reiterate some of their demands to the University, too.
We DEMAND that University cafeterias, gym memberships, libraries, and class registration be free to all residents of North Carolina regardless of admittance into the institution.
GORDON wrote:What needs to happen is mass expulsions.
Racist.
A university is a business. If you don't want their product, you should be shown the door to find a product you like better. It's the best for all involved.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
GORDON wrote:What needs to happen is mass expulsions.
Racist.
A university is a business. If you don't want their product, you should be shown the door to find a product you like better. It's the best for all involved.
Universities should be safe places for learning, and free to all people, regardless of where they come from.
GORDON wrote:I haven't been paying close attention.... are the protesting students primarily black, or something? I thought I read something about a swastika.
THEY ARE THE OPPRESSED! So race-centric you are. Some self identify as black, others self identify on gender terms you don't recognize.
Yeah, I'm racist. But if I was in charge of one of these school, I would try the mass expulsion route if I was prepared to resign, anyway. They lack balls and imagination.
No one is actually helping these petulant children
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"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
No one is actually helping these petulant children
That's the job of their parents that should never have been allowed to breed or adopt. A mindset that's probably the result of their parents' parents going way too far in the opposite direction.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
If the first group of children had been expelled, it would have been a good warning to the rest instead we are seeing the collapse of the American university system. Both are good outcomes I guess.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
The American university system needs to stop sucking ass. I've got zero sympathy for it.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."