TraThis article at The Atlantic seems to suggest that students who go to college in hopes of actually learning something are getting fed-up with protest culture. This would be a welcome change. Although the Progressive Leftists have become so adept with their bullying and intimidation tactics that few students were willing to go on the record to express their disapproval.
I was struck by something as I read this Facebook post from one of the radicals.
“To all the white & able(mentally/physically) who don’t come to sit-ins(ever, anymore, rarely): all i got is shade for you. [… If] you ain’t with me, then I will accept that you are against me. There’s 6 hums left, I best be seein all u phony ass white allies show-up. […] How you gonna be makin all ur white supremacy messes & not help clean-up your own community by coming and sitting for a frickin hour & still claim that you ain’t a laughin at a lynchin kinda white.”
Translated from the original Idiot: “If you are white and don’t participate in my protests, I will call you a racist. Also, you’re a racist even if you do participate in my protest.”
OK, here’s a theory. Suppose you were a student of mediocre ability who got accepted to a university because of some other factor unrelated to your academic abilities. You get there and you discover the coursework is way over your head. So what do you do? A. Buckle down, work harder, and learn what you can. B. Transfer to another school more closely suited to your abilities. or C. Rail that the difficult classes are actually “racist,” “oppressive to marginalized communities,” and “support a system of white supremacy.” Only one of these options is both easy and assures you of societal approval.
Never heard of Reed College, must be a Left Coast kind’a place. Where I went to college in the 1970s, the frat boys would have come and thrown the SJW sorry-a**es out into the Commons. …Then poured stale beer left-over from last night’s frat-crawl on them.
The attention span of the current white guilt sjw’s so the Standard current false narrative-obsessed minorities are going to always be disappointed in the performance of their “diversity partners”.
Option A is the best option. It worked for me.
The side effect of option ‘C’ is to plaster other minorities that can and will do the work, earning a degree based on their own hard work, with the “affirmative action” label (only graduated from _____ because of race/sex/ethnicity.
These people know they’re in over their heads, they they’re being patronized, and they resent it.
If this is how this “radical” actually speaks and writes, s/he has no business at college; should never have passed third grade.
I was wondering if anyone was (I don’t think I mean “were”) going to comment about the appalling lack of communication in the “radical’s” posting.
While I usually don’t have the chutzpah, I would like to think that I might stand up and say to RAR “Shut up. I paid to take this class, and I want my money’s worth.” (I went to university back when protests were not in the classes, and despite the overall reputation of the university, some departments [excluding science, math, classics, and engineering departments which were focused on their areas] had differing political views.
To the person that wrote that screed that was grammatically unworkable, wanna bet that person was a Negro? Have him/her go to some black university with lower standards, and they will fit in very well.
OK, here’s a theory. Suppose you were a student of mediocre ability who got accepted to a university because of some other factor unrelated to your academic abilities. You get there and you discover the coursework is way over your head. So what do you do? …C. Rail that the difficult classes are actually “racist,” “oppressive to marginalized communities,” and “support a system of white supremacy.” Only one of these options is both easy and assures you of societal approval.
A judge predicted this nearly a half century ago when he looked at Yale Law School’s new program of affirmative action admissions. Yale Law had decided to greatly increase the number of black students. The amazing 1969 prophecy that racial preferences would cause the exact grievances of protesters today. Increasing blacks in entering classes resulted in admitting “43 black students, only five of whom had qualified under their normal standards. ” The judge pointed out this meant that black law students entered Yale Law with an inferior status- their grades and scores were below normal Yale Law standards. The judge went on to predict:
Which is what happened.