What a SJW pow-wow looks like firsthand.
The local public university convened a meeting for "Strategies for Healing Post-Election." Right off the bat, you know this is going to be dynamite. For the hour I sat in and watched, it did not disappoint. The panel that delivered their testimonies of victimization consisted of a gay 41 year-old professor who looks like Jim Gaffigan, a woman in her fifties whose profession wasn't specified but who could only be a gender studies professor by virtue of the utter stupidity of what she said, an Asian prof who said nothing, a black male grad student and two undergraduate female "persons of color."
It was every bit as bad as you would imagine. The middle-aged broad prefaced her initial remarks by first acknowledging her "privilege" as a "white, heteronormative...." and some term with which I and every normal person is unfamiliar, but which undoubtedly refers to some characteristic shared by 200 million people in the United States. (I'm still unclear on any of the 59 genders beyond the first two, I just know I'm the bad one.) She explained how she sat her biracial son down the day after the election and informed him of all the dangers he would now face in this God forsaken country. He was sitting in the room, by the way. Looked to be maybe 14/15. What a mother! She also explained there is a double, perhaps triple threat from Trump, on account of the fact that her daughter is "disabled" and they are one of those families "on the dole." Gaffigan lookalike spoke of the perpetual fear in which he now lives "on campus and off campus." As you can probably guess, you'd be hard pressed to find a "safer space" on the face of the planet than this particular university, but he lives in perpetual fear. (One of the questions I should have written down was whether he had considered carrying a gun but it didn't occur to me at the time. ) He mentioned the people who are surrounding Trump who are going to target gays, mentioning "conversion therapy." Apparently, I missed Trump's plan to implement gay conversion therapy on the federal level. Oh, and he mentioned the Miami massacre and, son of a gun, he didn't mention any Islam angle.
"Space" and "spaces" along with "feel" and "fear" were repeated more than any other words. "Intersectionality" was mentioned, but had nothing to do with traffic flow or stoplights. The discussion was bereft of anything approaching logical discourse. It was simply five or six people sharing their irrational fears in a "white, heteronormative" environment. And, as we all know, gay people and "persons of color" are under greatest threat in overwhelmingly white communities, right?
The two undergrad females spoke. The first prefaced her remarks by stating that she didn't know if she could even speak she was so fearful. Then she cried. She announced that she was the one "you may have seen on Facebook" the day of a Trump rally and described nasty things said to her and the other protestors about "going back to your own country." The other undergrad told of her partner at another university who is "undocumented" (she stated she would not say "that word," presumably meaning "illegal immigrant) whose continued enrollment is jeopardized by Trump.
The one and only moment that didn't seem like a person craving attention through stories of woe was the black grad student recounting his experiences being pulled over at his first university in rural Iowa and up here in Wisconsin. Alas, he too then lapsed into speaking of the perpetual fear under which he lives now that Trump has been elected.
In short, attendees were treated to five or six of the most prejudiced people you will ever meet who make all sorts of assumption about people of whom they have virtually no information, based mostly upon outward appearances.
Unfortunately, I was unable to stay for the last hour, when it was to be opened up to audience questions. I envisioned the university's "bias response team" rushing in to grab me after my first question to whisk me away to a re-education camp.
BTW, much of the UW System has already tried to head off the need for re-education camps after the fact by creating a mandatory indoctrination/encounter group for all incoming freshmen.
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Would love to see a video of that meeting.
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No way anyone could find funny things on the right-wing fringe.
You found some fringe weirdos. Well done, culture warrior!
'Cause that's never done on John Oliver, Bill Maher, The Daily Show, Colbert, Fallon, Myers, Corden
There's plenty of funny...and plety of scary...on both fringes.
I've done that many times, professor. So much so that some here labeled me a "liberal."
I've asked you this before and I'll ask again: does this sort of sophistry usually work for you?
Like a lot of ideological hacks, you love it when the people with whom you disagree are satirized, but you don't like it so much when people towards your place on the spectrum are mocked. You'll never see this nonsense mocked on any of the side-splitting faux news shows that put stitches in your side. You'll never see them comment on your own bubbles but they'll have a good ole time guffawing about the bubbles that encase those dumb, racist Trump voters. After all, guys like you are sophisticated, worldly men.
I don't disagree with you about the Uber-PC crowd
I have to deal with them. But they are a minority, even in the uber-PC atmosphere of a campus.
I generally hate "arch" people. Arch-feminists, arch-vegans, arch-patriots, anything. They have no sense of humor about their issue.
But people who make judgments about colleges based only on the arch people are also tiresome.
And hilarious middle age white guys who laugh at the concern of minority kids are also lowlifes.
SJW?
Sexy Jewish Women?
Sensitive Jerk-offs Whining.
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A very cisgender post.
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Social Justice Warriors
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Heteronormative, is that a recognized word in the English language?
Good grief man.
I feel your pain.
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Wanna have your mind blown? Hold onto something as you read this.
This is from one of the state schools up here:
Link: Safe Space Glossary
I didn't see a definition for the term "freak"...
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Sweet baby Jaysus.....that is quite a document.
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I'll drink a toast to their insanity...
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Orwell's 1984 is upon us.
We can laugh at this stuff, but there's something profoundly nefarious about it. When they label words as "violence" and when they claim that they are "unsafe," they are building a case for banning words and banning ideas, and that's what gets me angry about it. They're too stupid and ignorant to know that 60/70 years ago, many public universities were bastions of conservatism where some of the speech they use now might have been banned. Times change. This won't happen in their lifetimes, but at some time in the future, the shoe may be on the other foot and the other side will get to decide what words or ideas should be banned. But, you see, it's okay when the SJWs ban language because they have the "correct" beliefs and feelings.
There is such a disconnect between what goes on in that world and the real world of
most Americans.
People who are concerned about their jobs, their kids, paying tuition, their retirement just don't care about the bathroom wars and other such things which just seem to consume the politically active academic left.
The question I have is how prevalent is this? I guess my kids have stayed away for the most part from these types of courses and get togethers, so they haven't this type of experience.....yet. My daughter is the head of the Women's Leadership Initiative at her university. She's pretty conservative and a registered R and hasn't had any issues with the real libs.
I was quizzing the 22 YO co-worker about this.
He went to U of Iowa which is quite liberal. He said that stuff is there if you want to involve yourself in it, but not nearly as prevalent as it gets attention for. And in his experience, that group sticks together and none of it was forced on him.
I said the same thing up until a year and a half ago.
It's getting to the point that people cannot be oblivious to it.
The fact that it has the traction that it does is still disturbing.
I tend to think the vast majority of students do ignore it though. I just go by what my kids tell me.
P.S. I emailed that to my daughter and she said it doesn't suprise her that it's out there.
Excellent report. Truly amazing.
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Holy shit, man. How did you not laugh uncontrollably?
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Mostly because I had a colleague next to me who was scared to death.
I told him ahead of time that I was going to speak if they had a Q & A. After the SJWs went through the checklist of the people who oppress them and my colleague and I matched all the criteria, my colleague told me that anytime I wanted go, we could go. (He carpooled with me after work.) Finally, when they moved to a "breakout session" in which we would discuss in small groups, there was no way I wasn't going to be saying things that were guaranteed to result in fireworks.
If you've seen anything about these SJWs, you probably know that they regularly try to destroy anyone who dares speak against them or mock them. They try to get people fired. They try to ruin people. It's a religion. Literally. They have their own lexicon, they have their own sacrament of confession, they see themselves as having special virtues that everyone else lacks, they deliver righteous sermons, they have dogma that shall not be challenged, on and on. Just like a cult, I think you would seriously have to deprogram these people. If the country fell into anarchy tomorrow and these people took over, the executions would commence within five minutes. Maybe three.
I'm not kidding you, when the one girl started crying, there was a dude behind me who was sniffling and breathing hard.
I only recognized one of the gutless university administrators in attendance, and he beat it when my colleague insisted we leave. I suspect he didn't want to be there but they had to have some sort of administrative presence there. I take that back, one of the provosts who has long been associated with the women's studies program on campus was there, too. I can't emphasize enough what pusses these administrators are and how they kowtow to these fruit loops.
I didn't bother to check if there were any therapy dogs or teddy bears provided afterwards.
As opposed to yellow heteronormative? ...
You just gave me a great idea. I'm going to open conversion therapy franchises for a nominal fee of $25,000.
We will supply all of the scary literature and refer you to our conversion therapy...therapy, for those that need counseling from their exposure to conversion therapy.
Then I'm going to create a Pro Forma IPO doc and go public.
Who's with me?
Link: Yer gonna' luv this
Gold.
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