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The shrieking harpy in this video was upset because the gentleman in the video sent an email in which he expressed an opinion that it really wasn’t the university’s business to regulate how students should dress up for Halloween.
2015 was the year every college campus (seemingly) became Berkeley. College students at the University of Missouri threw a massive hissy fit (led by the privileged black son of a millionaire father) because they didn’t think their solidly-left-wing president expressed sufficient solidarity with students upset over racial incidents of dubious providence occurring on or near campus. Students at Oberlin College in Ohio threw an end year tantrum because cafeteria food was servedin a manner deemed insufficiently culturally sensitive.
In Baltimore, #BlackLivesMatter activists (and the people they claim to represent) burned out their own neighborhoods and killed each other some 343 times so far in order to teach the White Power Structure a lesson; the White Power Structure in this case being a city run by a black mayor, a majority black city council and a majority black police force led by a black police chief. Activists in Oakland CA and Ferguson MO made their feelings known in a similar matter. Other activists took on the white power structure by shutting down shopping malls and highways and by staring at white liberals eating Sunday brunch.
Viewers of the entertainment industry’s annual Orgy of Self-Celebration And Repugnant Smugness (OSCARS) were treated to the spectacle of a millionaire actress whining about income inequality. Another mentally ill feminist spent two years dragging a mattress around a college campus because university officials refused to prosecute a boy for refusing her sexual advances after accepting her sexual advances. In Oregon, a student was allegedly banned from campus because he resembled a boy a mentally ill feminist had had an unhappy sexual encounter with.
Other feminists showed their outrage at being objectified as sexual objects by joining in Slut-Walks and parading around half-naked.
There was also the Mohammedan woman who became a hero to the cry-bully left when she threw a tantrum because a flight attendant didn’t give her a full can of soda (which nobody gets in the Age of the Flying Cattle Car).
Black activists, spoiled college brats, and feminists were joined in 2015 by science fiction writers… of all people. The Hugo awards were effectively sabotaged by Social Justice Warriors, who decided if awards couldn’t be given on the basis of Victim-Group Identity, they would rather give no awards at all.
And it wasn’t all on the social justice left. Some of the most epic tantrums came from the Republican Establishment as they realized their plans for a Bush sequel were being shot down by vulgarian with a ridiculous hairdo.
The really scary part of this is look at the video again. The target of that deranged woman was forced to resign. Also, the president of the University of Missouri was forced to resign. And Oberlin officials apologized for serving ethnic food in a culturally insensitive manner and promised to do better in the future. The tantrum-throwers are winning. So, it’s only going to get worse.
Unfortunately, I think the only way these people will ever stop are fatal doses of lead poisoning, if you catch my meaning. And since that’s never going to happen, we’re stuck with them.
One way to rehabilitate these brainwashed kids would be to reinstitute the draft. Two years of military service will reorient them into civilized society. For those who won’t qualify is two years of social service. I don’t mean demonstrations. Have them put their money where their mouth is, two years obligatory service in soup kitchens or a true social service organization. Maybe they’ll see how spoiled rotten they have been.
Some years back I studied cinema at LACC, and had a dream that one day I would be holding the statuette in my hands, thanking those who made it possible. But the days of great MC’s like Bob Hope are gone. I no longer want to watch and listen to what passes for comedy which are diatribes against conservatives and civilized society.
There’s no leadership in the country, from any direction. Which allows every kook to promote their own false narratives. No one is paying attention to just how crazy it is. This is happening from every segment of society. The biggest ones are the BLM & other race card issues. Any active political leaders are busy with campaigns. It’s the same kind of burnout that I noticed in the last couple years of Carter’s pathetic presidency. Blacks want special treatment. I hear it every day now from Leftist sources.
Inauthentic ethnic food served in an inauthentic manner; Cry me a river… There is no such thing as Gen. Tsao’s Chicken in China; fried, steamed, or stolen from a starving peasant.
When I was in college the food was an insult to the authenticity of “Food”; Mystery Meat, Lump, and breaded son of Lump. Parmesan WTF?… Reconstituted “potatoes” and “It Came From a Can“. Gravy was identified by it’s dubious color, not it’s alleged base-stock. “Bug Juice”, and the coffee came only regular or decaf. “Salad Bar? We don’t need no stinkin’ salad bar…”
@ Roberto: I don’t think the draft would be the way to go. I still think Vietnam was so difficult for us because most of the guys sent there didn’t want to go there. Damn difficult to win a war when the soldiers don’t care about the war.
Compulsory military service stateside might help, but I know there are still Leftists in the military (witness bleeding heart Bowe Bergdahl and head-case Manning).
How about reviving the Civilian Conservation Corps as compulsory service if not volunteering in the active military? Our national parks and forest infrastructure is falling apart. The hard work, structured living and fresh air away from the cities and the ‘burbs would do them wonders. And they get to see “fly-over country” up-close and get a better appreciation for our national blessings. Learn a trade the old-fashioned way. Fell tress the old-fashioned way. Go build a bridge; better, rebuild a rural bridge.
To paraphrase Mao; “Let then-thousand shovels fly…”
How about making it so only veterans who pay income and property tax can vote.
@ juan: Sounds like the Heinlein solution to me.
Is anyone outside a university diversity-compliance and thought-police unit likely to hire the harpy, identified in the linked article, as one Jerelyn Luther?
Anyone with any actual work to do would see someone like this as radioactive. They’d need a full-time HR lawyer to handle her grievances not to mention the strife she’d bring to the workplace. That goes for any SJW.
Employers: google is your friend.
The lesson SJW targets need to learn is *never* apologize.
Additional useful skills include the use of the terms “get a life” and go f*** yourself.
Can you imagine what would happen if, say, Matt Taylor (the European Space Agency project scientist on the project that landed a space probe on a comet) had told the Hawaiian-shirt-phobic harpies to piss off? Untold numbers of normal people would want to bear his children.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2015/09/never-apologize-to-sjws.html
“. . . by vulgarian with a ridiculous hairdo.”
I believe the term SPY magazine used was ‘fat-fingered vulgarian’.
Employers: google is your friend.
True. And facebook. I’ve instantly rejected lots of applicants because of the stupidity they’re proud for the world to view.
A corollary to this is: If you honestly feel an apology is necessary (because, for example, hindsight has made you intellectually embarrassed and/or morally repentant over something you said previously), MAKE THE APOLOGY AND STICK WITH YOUR WORDING. Which is to say, do not be bullied by accusations that “a qualified apology is not an apology!!!” — a common tactic that just means “we want absolute contrition offered as a blank check.”
The SJWs nit-picking at your allegedly inadequate or insincere apology will try to present themselves as merely engaging in a “teaching moment” about proper etiquette: “All we’re trying to say is that you’re not apologizing in a form that Miss Manners would endorse.”
But the real Miss Manners, of course, would point out that endlessly second-guessing and scrutinizing another person’s apology because it might contain “subconscious rudeness” is a form of rudeness in itself. (See also: the micro-aggression of calling someone else micro-aggressive.)
Ted B said:
When I was in college the food was an insult to the authenticity of “Food”; Mystery Meat, Lump, and breaded son of Lump.
Thanks…I needed the laugh 🙂
When I was watching the video of the Yale Harpy, I noticed that she more than once referred to the befuddled middle-aged white man as “master.” Then I realized — “Aha, as in house-master, like Maggie Smith being in charge of Gryffindor.”
Thus, her complaint seems to be that student dormitories ought to be a stress-free spa/resort, and not necessarily so much (at least in this case) that the classrooms ought to be free of micro-aggressive challenges to one’s worldview.
Still a completely stupid grievance, but — a differently stupid grievance, if that’s any consolation to her.
what you are seeing on these colleges is the Obama administration’s version of mao’s cultural revolution.
Point of clarification: I don’t think Columbia U’s Mattress Girl was doing her shtick for two years; just the semester for which the performance art project was approved in the class she was taking.
Though I would love to see her sentenced to carry it around for two years, as a false rape accusation adjudication.
“How about reviving the Civilian Conservation Corps as compulsory service if not volunteering in the active military? ”
ONLY if this includes the offspring of politicians, and includes the offspring of the wealthy and the connected.
@ 6Ted B (Charging Rhino)
I did say for those who don’t qualify, (conscientious objects as well as those who physically would qualify) they should be required to do social swervice. I think CCC and America Corps would fall under that category.the important thing is that the youth are doing something bigger than themselves for the country.
@6 – Ted, in the past, when there were proposals for mandatory service, I recoiled as it lends to the notion that people are property of the state. Now, I’m not so sure.
It’s not a terrible idea in theory. I went to HS in the 70s when most of my friends had part-time jobs, chores at home, and dads who brooked little nonsense. To a man, my pals feared their fathers more than the police so we tended to not get into too much trouble.
Paper routes weren’t uncommon among kids, either (I had one from age 12 to 16). My evening route was a fine intro to reality: six days a week rain, sun, sleet, snow – didn’t matter. I don’t know how morning route kids did it.
Too many kids now have little notion of showing up to work and being accountable. Part of this has to do with their lifestyles and parent(s) and part has to do with mass importation of foreign labor. So we’re raising kids to become adults with little experience in adult behavior. We’re becoming infantilized.
My problem with mandatory service is that it will be politicized – an army of clueless young people as foot soldiers in the culture wars. That’s a show-stopper.
Under the “lesser of many evils”, I’d rather have them working on infrastructure that’s part of the Common Weal — the National Parks, the National Forests and Seashores — than the European model of social service and nursing home duty. That just perpetuates the Liberal Left’s agenda. Plus, there should be sweat and heat and cold involved to compliment the fresh air. The sense of accomplishment of doing something tangible with your own hands. Treat if part of a rounded education, not a Corvee en masse. I want to liberate their souls, not conscript them. To do in-part what the Boy Scouts were founded for — before they lost their way and their souls.
And start with the little ones too. We need more free-range children, not more adult supervision.
In many respects, that’s what AmeriCorps is now. In many areas, it’s simply a community organizing tool for young Democrats. I recall in 2008 that some of the same names that were involved in the state operation of AmeriCorps were also involved with Obama For America. (This was when the DNC, under Howard Dean, had a 50-State strategy. Since that was largely abandoned in 2012, OFA was pretty neutered in some areas.)
Fortunately, in my deep red state, they can organize for the next 50 years and the percentage of Democrats will stay about the same. In other places though, it’s pretty much the equivalent of having what would be the Young Communist League in some countries. (“The youth is the future of the party!”)
Perhaps you are thinking of the Girl Scouts? Despite publicity in recent years, the largest percentage of troop sponsors in BSA are still churches, with the Boy Scouts being the de facto male youth program for the LDS church in the US. Many if not most troops still have an active outdoor component and still participate in traditional skill-based programs.
It’s the GSA which has feminist studies and community organizing modules (even though it’s still a worthwhile program in many parts of the country).