Imagine having such delicate sensibilities that the mere presence of someone with a contradictory opinion sent you rushing to the fainting couch. Literally.
Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos made an appearance at Rutgers University, and his ideas and rhetoric so traumatized the delicate flowers who heard him that many of them attended a “group therapy” session afterward.
You are not going to believe what happened next:According to the [Rutgers student newspaper The Daily Targum], students and faculty members held a wound-licking gathering at a cultural center on campus, where students described “feeling scared, hurt, and discriminated against.”
“A variety of different organizations and departments were present to listen, answer questions and show support” to the apparently weak and vulnerable students, who just a few days prior had disrupted Yiannopoulos’ event by smearing fake blood on their faces and chanting protest slogans.
One student at the event told the Targum that they “broke down crying” after the event, while another reported that he felt “scared to walk around campus the next day.” According to the report, “many others” said they felt “unsafe” at the event and on campus afterwards.
The University’s response is… of course… to coddle these emotional Darwinian throwbacks even more.
These wankers better hope… just hope… that the over-leveraged welfare state that protects them never breaks down. They would survive in the real world about as long as an effeminate boy at an ISIS camp.
I have come to the conclusion that SJW’s aren’t thin-skinned.
They have no skin whatsoever.
They do have this segment of the Left who are willing to be or are the hot house flowers, people who are offended & need to be protected by the strictures & totalitarianism of the Left’s agenda. They’re symbolic & it’s right that they be openly derided. They are the living clown cars of the Left. It’s quite a show around the country now.
What’s that song? “Mommas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Pussies“?
Seventy-one years ago this weekend, their great-grandfathers were battling their way onto the beaches of Iwo Jima and up the slopes of Mt. Suribachi. (Feb 19-23, 1945)
Maybe Mao was right;
“The Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement was a policy instituted in the People’s Republic of China in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As a result of what he perceived to be anti-bourgeois thinking prevalent during the Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong declared certain privileged urban youth would be sent to mountainous areas or farming villages to learn from the workers and farmers there. In total, approximately 17 million youth were sent to rural areas as a result of the movement… Mao’s stated aim for the policy was to ensure that urban students could “develop their talents to the full” through education amongst the rural population. Many fresh high school graduates, who became known as the zhiqing (“Educated Youth”) in China and the “Sent-down” or “Rusticated Youth” abroad, were forced out of the cities and effectively exiled to remote areas of China.” -Wikipedia
I was just thinking about WWII, Ted B. Just over 74 years ago, my dad’s older cousin survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. How “scared” and “hurt” do you think he and his fellow survivors felt? How “scared to walk around” and “unsafe” do you think they felt the next day? And yet they somehow managed to keep calm and carry on.
What most of those candy-@$$s need is to get a swift kick in the behind and told they will not be catered to. If they can’t take it, kick them to the curb and open their classroom seats to those who are worthy.
I have brought up this question at other sites and will ask it here as well: how many of these tender young snivelers are majoring in something useful? I am willing to bet the price of a good lunch that not a single one is a STEM major, and that most of them are grievance-group “studies” majors.
All this getting together and talking about feelings seems to me very non-Western. I remember going back to an event at my old prep school probably 10 years after I graduated, and one of the older white teachers steeped in Western culture was talking about how to solve some problem (I don’t even remember what), when a more recently hired Teacher of Color stood up and started criticizing her for her ethnocentric approach, saying that the whole idea of solving problems was Eurocentric, because in her culture, they don’t worry about solving problems, they get together and talk about how problems make them feel. And I thought to myself, “I have no idea where you come from or what your culture is, but with that attitude I expect it’s a third world hellhole where nobody accomplishes anything.” I prefer problem-solving Western civilization, based on Greek and Roman thought. And one of my favorite quotes from Old English poetry translates roughly as, “I know it to be true that it is in a man a noble quality for him to keep his feelings to himself, whatever he might be thinking.” In other words, keep calm and carry on.
I admit not knowing much about this Milo Yiannopoulos person — can anyone supply an executive summary? (I do gather that he is openly G and has a tendency to pick fights with the T community.)
He became “famous” online during the #GamerGate controversy.
Exec summary? Anyone who’d feel threatened by Milo would also feel threatened by puppies and cupcakes. About the harshest thing I’ve seen him do is make fools look foolish with their own words. Threatening? I guess if a businesslike expression is “threatening”…
Our favorite socialist state is getting worse.
http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/11860
Most women and gay men are drama queens, they would rather attention whore problems than achieve solutions.
Milo is a gay mudshark, that wears $15,000 outfits to places he knows women will drench themselves in fake blood. He became famous as the GamerGate Leader that they couldn’t call STR8YTChurchgoingMan. He is also an editor at Brietbart.
Milo had the effrontery to refer to a femnazi as “darling”. The apoplexy was delightful.
Milo is FABULOUS! Just ask him! lol….and I must be fabulous, too: he follows little old ME on teh twitterz.
Wow – I had a comment deleted.
Ah, I knew about GamerGate, but didn’t remember Milo’s name.
I’ve looked up some of his writings, and all I can say is that although I often agreed with his points, he seems to believe too much in his self-advertised Fabulousness, and shows definite potential to become Andrew Sullivan 2.0 — including the not-totally-convincing identification as “Catholic.” (Being a “Catholic-flavored atheist” or an “apostate who remembers the Catechism really well” are also respectable positions, and maybe more believable in Yiannopoulus’s case.)
KCRob — most likely the “deleted” comment was actually swallowed up by the auto-filter, not censored by a human. V the K or someone else can un-delete it with the click of a button if they happen to be reading the thread.
As far as I know, the two most common causes of accidental filtering are (a) clicking multiple times on the Say It! button if the system is hanging; and (b) including more than “A HREF” link in the same post — either way, the system misinterprets your post as spam.
Milo Y’s Wikipedia entry is as good as an executive summary as there is.
And, yes, he also reminds me of a young Andrew Sullivan for the Millennial set, as well as perhaps a male version of a young Ann Coulter—before they both became middle-aged shrill harpies.