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A Professor Speaks Out: How Coddled, Hyper Sensitive Undergrads Are Ruining College Learning
Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg
A Professor Speaks Out: How Coddled, Hyper Sensitive Undergrads Are Ruining College Learning
Things have changed since I started teaching. The vibe is different. I wish there were a less blunt way to put this, but my students sometimes scare me — particularly the liberal ones.
I once saw an adjunct not get his contract renewed after students complained that he exposed them to “offensive” texts written by Edward Said and Mark Twain. His response, that the texts were meant to be a little upsetting, only fueled the students’ ire and sealed his fate. That was enough to get me to comb through my syllabi and cut out anything I could see upsetting a coddled undergrad, texts ranging from Upton Sinclair to Maureen Tkacik — and I wasn’t the only one who made adjustments, either.
The current student-teacher dynamic has been shaped by a large confluence of factors, and perhaps the most important of these is the manner in which cultural studies and social justice writers have comported themselves in popular media. I have a great deal of respect for both of these fields, but their manifestations online, their desire to democratize complex fields of study by making them as digestible as a TGIF sitcom, has led to adoption of a totalizing, simplistic, unworkable, and ultimately stifling conception of social justice. The simplicity and absolutism of this conception has combined with the precarity of academic jobs to create higher ed’s current climate of fear, a heavily policed discourse of semantic sensitivity in which safety and comfort have become the ends and the means of the college experience.
– From the Vox article: I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me
The article at the center of today’s piece is truly excellent and demands much thought and introspection. One of the main themes here at Liberty Blitzkrieg since inception, has been the contention that the American population has turned into a nation of coddled, fearful serfs.
It’s not quite clear to me when this transformation actually happened, but the first undeniable evidence within my lifetime was the public’s reaction to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. I’ve written about this before, most specifically in the post, How I Remember September 11, 2001. Here’s an excerpt:
In the days following the collapse, all I wanted was for the towers to be rebuilt just like before. I wanted the skyline back to what I had know since the day I came into this earth at a New York City hospital to be restored exactly as I had always known it. Career-wise, I felt I should leave Wall Street. I thought about going back to graduate school for political science, or maybe even join the newly created Department of Homeland Security (yes, the irony is not lost on me). I read a lengthy tome on Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda. I was an emotional and psychological mess, and it was when I was in this state of heightened distress that my own government and the military-industrial complex took advantage of me.
It wasn’t just me of course. It was an entire nation that was callously manipulated in the aftermath of that tragedy. The courage and generosity exhibited by so many New Yorkers and others throughout the country and indeed the world was rapidly transformed into terrifying fear. Fear that was intentionally injected repeatedly into our daily lives. Fear that translated into pointless wars and countless deaths. Fear that was used to justify the destruction of our precious civil rights. Fear that was used to initiate a gigantic power grab and the source of tremendous profits for the corporate-statists and crony-capitalsits. Unfortunately, that is the greatest legacy of 9/11.
It was the American public’s fearful and panicked emotional response to the attacks that allowed authoritarians and corrupt politicians to seamlessly and expeditiously steamroll over the civil rights of the citizenry. Unsurprisingly, this act of cowed submissiveness sent a signal to the less ethically inclined amongst us, and in the decade and a half since the attacks, the U.S. has rapidly deteriorated into something barely distinct from a Banana Republic.
This infestation of cowardice, anti-intellectualism and fear has permeated almost every nook and crany of American life, including academics. So much so, that a college professor has just penned an article titled: I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me. Even more worrisome, he felt the need to write it under a pseudonym due to the fear of backlash.
This is not what makes a great nation. Here are some excerpts from Vox:
I’m a professor at a midsize state school. I have been teaching college classes for nine years now. I have won (minor) teaching awards, studied pedagogy extensively, and almost always score highly on my student evaluations. I am not a world-class teacher by any means, but I am conscientious; I attempt to put teaching ahead of research, and I take a healthy emotional stake in the well-being and growth of my students.
Things have changed since I started teaching. The vibe is different. I wish there were a less blunt way to put this, but my students sometimes scare me — particularly the liberal ones.
Not, like, in a person-by-person sense, but students in general. The student-teacher dynamic has been reenvisioned along a line that’s simultaneously consumerist and hyper-protective, giving each and every student the ability to claim Grievous Harm in nearly any circumstance, after any affront, and a teacher’s formal ability to respond to these claims is limited at best.
I once saw an adjunct not get his contract renewed after students complained that he exposed them to “offensive” texts written by Edward Said and Mark Twain. His response, that the texts were meant to be a little upsetting, only fueled the students’ ire and sealed his fate. That was enough to get me to comb through my syllabi and cut out anything I could see upsetting a coddled undergrad, texts ranging from Upton Sinclair to Maureen Tkacik — and I wasn’t the only one who made adjustments, either.
A bizarre form of censorship and anti-intellectualism, but a very dangerous one nonetheless.
I am frightened sometimes by the thought that a student would complain again like he did in 2009. Only this time it would be a student accusing me not of saying something too ideologically extreme — be it communism or racism or whatever — but of not being sensitive enough toward his feelings, of some simple act of indelicacy that’s considered tantamount to physical assault. As Northwestern University professor Laura Kipnis writes, “Emotional discomfort is [now] regarded as equivalent to material injury, and all injuries have to be remediated.” Hurting a student’s feelings, even in the course of instruction that is absolutely appropriate and respectful, can now get a teacher into serious trouble.
The academic job market is brutal. Teachers who are not tenured or tenure-track faculty members have no right to due process before being dismissed, and there’s a mile-long line of applicants eager to take their place. And as writer and academic Freddie DeBoer writes, they don’t even have to be formally fired — they can just not get rehired. In this type of environment, boat-rocking isn’t just dangerous, it’s suicidal, and so teachers limit their lessons to things they know won’t upset anybody.
This shift in student-teacher dynamic placed many of the traditional goals of higher education — such as having students challenge their beliefs — off limits. While I used to pride myself on getting students to question themselves and engage with difficult concepts and texts, I now hesitate. What if this hurts my evaluations and I don’t get tenure? How many complaints will it take before chairs and administrators begin to worry that I’m not giving our customers — er, students, pardon me — the positive experience they’re paying for? Ten? Half a dozen? Two or three?
The current student-teacher dynamic has been shaped by a large confluence of factors, and perhaps the most important of these is the manner in which cultural studies and social justice writers have comported themselves in popular media. I have a great deal of respect for both of these fields, but their manifestations online, their desire to democratize complex fields of study by making them as digestible as a TGIF sitcom, has led to adoption of a totalizing, simplistic, unworkable, and ultimately stifling conception of social justice. The simplicity and absolutism of this conception has combined with the precarity of academic jobs to create higher ed’s current climate of fear, a heavily policed discourse of semantic sensitivity in which safety and comfort have become the ends and the means of the college experience.
This new understanding of social justice politics resembles what University of Pennsylvania political science professor Adolph Reed Jr. calls a politics of personal testimony, in which the feelings of individuals are the primary or even exclusive means through which social issues are understood and discussed. Reed derides this sort of political approach as essentially being a non-politics, a discourse that “is focused much more on taxonomy than politics [which] emphasizes the names by which we should call some strains of inequality [ … ] over specifying the mechanisms that produce them or even the steps that can be taken to combat them.” Under such a conception, people become more concerned with signaling goodness, usually through semantics and empty gestures, than with actually working to effect change.
This is more or less how politics functions in the U.S. today. Fake and superficial narratives take position at center stage, while the really big existential issues are never addressed, or merely brushed under the rug.
The press for actionability, or even for comprehensive analyses that go beyond personal testimony, is hereby considered redundant, since all we need to do to fix the world’s problems is adjust the feelings attached to them and open up the floor for various identity groups to have their say. All the old, enlightened means of discussion and analysis —from due process to scientific method — are dismissed as being blind to emotional concerns and therefore unfairly skewed toward the interest of straight white males. All that matters is that people are allowed to speak, that their narratives are accepted without question, and that the bad feelings go away.
In a New York Magazine piece, Jonathan Chait described the chilling effect this type of discourse has upon classrooms. Chait’s piece generated seismic backlash, and while I disagree with much of his diagnosis, I have to admit he does a decent job of describing the symptoms. He cites an anonymous professor who says that “she and her fellow faculty members are terrified of facing accusations of triggering trauma.” Internet liberals pooh-poohed this comment, likening the professor to one of Tom Friedman’s imaginary cab drivers. But I’ve seen what’s being described here. I’ve lived it. It’s real, and it affects liberal, socially conscious teachers much more than conservative ones.
This is how civilizations die. Slowly, and by a thousand small cuts.
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I think you all miss the point. The average university student has been raised in a self entitled bubble for 18 years before they even get to university and have been socialized by a culture that is the epitome of self entitlement, hence most white americans truly think they're number 1 in the world just because they were shit out of somebodies vagina on a piece of dirt claimed to be within the borders of the USSA. University isn't the illness it's the manifest symptoms of a broken, corrupt, self indulgent and self entitled predominantly white run rascist culture that has spanned decades to ferment it's false illusions among mostly millions of white psuedo-christian people.
A self-entitled bubble created by parents who were exposed to the ideas of the liberal university system. Each generation has become more and more liberal. It has reached critical mass...or soon will.
The stupid true believers train more stupid true believers. What can be learned from those do not doubt. Socrates said, "I know nothing." What did all our doctors know twenty years ago which now is not believed? Ulcers can now be cured with antibiotics.
Our children were trained to obey authorities. Doctors, professors, teachers, the media or celebrities are trusted. Trust is the vice of the mentally lazy. I doubt; therefore I think; therefore I am not their slave.
The college professor who wrote that article simply doesn't fucking get it. All of that essay was nothing more than apologia for the cultural studies and social justice curricula.
And that right there is the core of his problem. He can't blame the right people.
My Liberal Politicians scare me much more than some 20 year old wannabe social justice warrior.
Having been a teacher once myself, I can relate to much of what was written. The system has been broken for a long time, and not getting better. Now that I'm in my own business, I won't hire anyone with a college degree anymore. As far as I'm concerned, what they learned does nothing for my business or goals. So I look for and hire people with character, morals, a positive attitude, and a willingness to take the initiative. What can't you do with an employee like that?
It is amusing to watch America collapse. Karma
The "Uncivil War" .... won't be North vs. South .... it will be City vs. Country .... enemies everywhere .... no distinct battle lines .... much mistrust and treachery .... sabotage and ambush .... good luck !
As intended.
A perfect opportunity for the UN troops to ride in and 'rellocate and reorganize'.
I recommend every patriotic group .... adopt a Muslim training camp .... establish your own training/surveillance camp .... and monitor the sand snakes .... not too close .... not too provocative .... defensible and discreet .... wait for further instructions .... Captain Monedas, Zero Hedge Rangers !
That professors statement sounded like it was pulled out of a chapter from Atlas Shrugged.
Amazing how far these leftist leeches have brought us all down.
If I am ever in the position of hiring I will reject these moochers.
I recommended Banzai be placed in charge of Propaganda .... by unanimous vote .... he will also make latrine signs .... and other useful stuff ! Shit, as Staff Comedian .... he'll be my boss ?
Of course the editor update to an article about the problems of identity politics is more identity politics. Liberals.
Of course the editor update to an article about the problems of identity politics is more identity politics. Liberals.
So, choosing up sides .... it will be orientals, whites, hispanics, native Americans, Christian blacks and all non-Muslim citizens and immigrants .... vs. .... Muslims, avowed Communists, the usual suspects !
I can't help but wonder how many H1b visas are granted to foreign born people with college degrees in liberal arts. Could it be that many college students really aren't all that excited in a job that actually requires "work"?
Each of those delicate little undergraduate flowers are unique and special. The sooner everyone realizes that the better off we will all be.
Upvote for the sark fuck !
Those "unique and special" little undergrads need a pep talk from none other than Tyler Durden:
“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”Collapse of the quality of education is just a part of collapse of quality of living in the US.
There are multitude of reasons for that but mostly it is decades old brutal political and economical aggression against independent academic institutions and/or corruption of administrators, students, teachers and whole academic community by propaganda of ruling elites and hence utter betrayal of official academic principles and trust of our children who depend on education to establish themselves in the society.
The honest and interesting take on true purpose of educational system under veil of quest for practical skills and enlightenment I found at:
https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/education-blessings-o...
There's a big difference between what goes on in humanities vs math, science, engineering.
Yeah the commies dictate one side of education and the Nazis dictate the other.
I'm with you on the commies but don't get the Nazi reference.
Too many people speak about NAZI having no clue what they are talking about. All most people know about NAZI is propaganda by the zionist-controlled mass media was telling for the last 80 years. Somehow, the same mass media is surprisingly silent about the Jewish Bolshevism genoside of Slavic people in the former Soviet Union.
FDR saw a good buddy in schizophrenic, sadistic mass-murderer Stalin. As for American war hero G. Patton, he felt that America was fighting a wrong enemy. He did not live long after he publicly has stated this.
The bottom line: stop spreading BS about thing you know nothing about.
I'm having a hard time feeling bad for this mother fucker............
Back in the late 1940s when I attended Brooklyn College in New York I had an unforgettable history teacher. He was one of the few teachers I encountered in over 35 years of my education experience that I considered a good teacher. At the beginning of the semester he annouced how he conducted his lectures. The first fifty minutes he would speak during which he would tolerate no interruptions. This was underlined by his saying that if anyone interrupted him he would bodily throw him/her out. One look at him was enough to convince annyone that it was no idle threat. The last ten minutes would be given over to questions from the students. Invariably, he would still be speaking when the bell rang ending the session. no one moved until he was finished speaking. His lectures were spell binding. Reading the above account of today's student/teacher behavior represents a total rupture in the entire educational process.
Actually I'm a great grandfather wondering what this fourth turning generation will come to. The two generations between them and mine are directly responsible for the sorry situation we see all around us today.
Boo fucking hoo to this professor, and all liberal groupthink POS professors everywhere. YOU and people like you create these little fucking monsters....now live with it. You lazy ass tenured hacks. Those who can not do.... TEACH.
these kids act this way because they have been bombarded with victimology and multiculturalist propaganda for decades.
Formal education in america has a very strong propaganda component.
Multiculturalist/feminist propaganda serves the big corporations because it helps them increase the supply of workers and consumers. More profits. Higher GDP. etc.
The effect of all that propaganda crammed into young malleable minds over decades is to make them hyper-politically correct.
Duh.
This is what happens when too many students are whiny spoiled spawn of liberals where their whole upbringing has been based on not hurting their precious little feelings ... or else tiger mommy will have said offenders head.
Their parents are the ones paying the bills, or at least part of them; so obviously the academic institution will simply continue to kiss their little gen-X asses. Much of American academia is just one big money churning machine, so the "client" can't be offended. It's even spilling into the sciences where made-to-order research is becoming the norm.
The brats have been taught that their "feelings" are reality ... it's like they were taught to be mentally ill. Facts don't matter ... sequence and cause and effect don't matter ... it's all about your sweet precious little feelings. So if they are hurt, things must change; and since mommy and daddy pay the bills, academia must comply.
Thankfully, for every little gen-X wiener there are many decent young people ... you don't hear about them because they are too busy building a successful life. I work with young people everyday, and overall I'm not concerned ... there are millions of decent young people who will be taking the reigns as sure as there are millions of whiny liberal pricks. Each generation has it's challenges.
And finally, you tend to hear only the horror stories ... I'm sure there are many institutions who don't genuflect to every whiner.
As a 'gen x' wiener I have not seen many of these 'decent young people' -- most are extremely shallow, materialistic, into hyper conspicuous consumption, very racist except it is done very subtly.. Of course I am speaking from what I have seen growing up in NYC and now living in the greater Boston area but the worst seem to be these yuppie west coast & midwest transplants
And which ones do you suppose will go into politics and media, the whiners or the ones building a successful life?
Gen X (my generation) is made up of people born between 1961 and 1979 (some say 1965 to 1984). Age 54 to age 31 on the outside. Pretty old for college.
I grew up with maybe 9 channels on TV. Adults always got first dibs. Kids were told to get the hell out of the house and stay out until it was time to eat or go to bed. Had free run of about a four block area inculding a city park. We had chores. By the time I was 13 I was doing laundry and making dinner and mowing grass.
When I got my first apartment the little telly I had used rabbit ears and didn't have a remote. My phone service was a land line and I had measured service (set number of calls per month) because I was 19 working full time and broke.
No computer in my house or cell phone until I was around 30.
I think maybe you mean millenials.
What comes around goes around.
Is he afraid of his students? If he's a white male, he should be.
It doesn't even matter what he says or doesn't say to placate them. In the end a way will be found to replace him with someone more diverse and vibrant and willing to tell Jennifer and Jaleel what they want to hear, and see to it that he never teaches ever again. If he's lucky, maybe he'll be able to make a living writing Jennifer's and Jaleel's term papers for them.
Pleasing your enemies does not make them friends.
The academic job market is brutal. Teachers who are not tenured or tenure-track faculty members have no right to due process before being dismissed, and there’s a mile-long line of applicants eager to take their place. And as writer and academic Freddie DeBoer writes, they don’t even have to be formally fired — they can just not get rehired. In this type of environment, boat-rocking isn’t just dangerous, it’s suicidal, and so teachers limit their lessons to things they know won’t upset anybody.
There is a "mile long line of applicants"?? Seriously, A) Unemployment rate is only 5.5% -- why someone would take or apply for a job teaching, serving food, cashiering is beyond me.
But similar to the tight labor market conditions from 1997-2001, most can just quit and have another job by end of day.. where exactly is proof that these jobs get 'hundreds of applicants'.. In the NYC suburbs, a school teacher with 10 years experience can make over $120,000 and they are running radio ads and giving sign on bonuses because there are NO applicants
How dare the prof refer to these millenials ( which I hear is an offensive term to them) as coddled overly sensitive serfs? class action lawsuit on the way for such defamatory slander against the collegians. I knew an economics prof who had to haggle with students' parents who argued against the prof's low grading of their little boy or girl student. You can blame the tenured, ultra liberal, non diverse educators from Kindergarten through Grade16 who just passed these little darlings up the grades for an easy paycheck.
This why I like Scott Walker He wants to flush these tenured teachers out to sea. There is no academic freedom. You must be a lib to retain teaching jobs from Kindergarten through BS Degree. A terrible burden on society gobbling of trillions of dollars for education as the U.S. sinks lower and lower academically compared to rest of world. Poison Ivy League schools like Harvard are the chiefest of sinners.
KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA Yuri says it best.That is an outstanding interview...certainly precient. Worth the ~13 minutes...
College has become a four or five year stay of execution for these lazy jack assess who can't face the prospect of waking up every day to go to work. Graduate high school, learn some real skills that can support you like in the trades, and study your hobby or passion on your own time until you can make it pay. Even if you're young and can type pretty well someone will hire you, IF YOU WANT TO WORK.
Sounds a lot like the guy who raises a pit bull and then is surprised when it bites some one.
I had a left leaning professor for "American History before (the Civil War)." When we were discussing the resolution of the Mexican-American war, he submitted to the class a query: "After the Battle of Chapultepec, why didn't the United States annex Mexico?" Cue silence from the class. I figured if this was going to be slow pitch softball I'd take a swing. "Because it was full of brown people." The class gasped in unison and then the silence was so thick you could cut it with a chainsaw. My statement was entirely in agreement with the professor's theory on the matter, and when the class clued in that I wasn't going to get academically tarred and feathered for answering a simple question simply it actually improved the discussion.
For establishments of higher learning, they do seem to very poorly estimate the impacts of their neu double plus good internal rules enforcement regimes. Interesting that he's stopping short of admitting that actual radicals are influencing education from inside the hallowed halls of academia.
Can we please stop calling these guys "liberal" and call them for what they actually are: Social Justice Warriors.
Ludwig von Mises is rolling in his grave.
That was enough to get me to comb through my syllabi and cut out anything I could see upsetting a coddled undergrad
Oh, great.
I'm sure that will be more than made up by you now posting an article in Vox, asshole!
Heard a high school or multi-ethnic college debate lately, anchor baby gets accepted to every ivy league school he applied to, his special skill "debate champion" http://news.yahoo.com/california-student-accepted-every-ivy-league-schoo...
SAT GPA not mentioned in all 78 articleshttps://www.google.com/search?q=Fullerton+High+School+senior+Fernando+Ro...
No propaganda here
Close all brick and mortar mortar board factories .... all internet classes .... with the best professors in their fields .... you choose .... take classes from different providers .... add them up for your degree .... no more moves .... like a Winchester repeater .... interchangeable parts !
50 years of teaching dbl standards to make things fair? Fuck um. He made his bed let him sleep in it. I just hope he publishes his suicide note too!
The days of teaching GAAP accounting are historical ashes. Common core arithmetic will baffle generation Y with bullshit.
You shoulda seen the look on this teachers face when I told him I would be sure to use commen core math on his car.
This Professor and other Professors do NOT have my sympathy.
If they want academic justice they need to march into their University Administration Offices and their President and tell them to stop coddling these "utes with no brains." Mommies and daddies need to be told to put a leach on Junior's BS or Junior will be out, regardless of race, creed or parental money contributions.
the death of a nation is painful to watch, especially when you're locked in the casket with this rotting corpse. it stinks in here.
In other words, in the world of today, college age kids have not learned one of the first lessons from kindergarten or first-grade (whichever comes first). Namely...
sticks and stones may break my bones, but words cannot hurt me.
Gee, glad I learned that one early. Saved me a lot of grief!
Maybe colleges need to hang banners with this very valid and important first-grader cliche on every building, or in every classroom.
Regarding sticks and stones, and words never hurting, it's all backwards now with "character education" and the "bully policies". That right there is the problem: they are teaching these kids now that words CAN hurt them, so every perceived insult or slight, real or imagined, will now have far-reaching consequences. You can't say anything to anyone anymore. I swear it's worse than farting in church on a feast day.
And check this ! This is the proof that capitalism works ?
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=116619
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Editors In Chief of World’s Most Prestigious Medical Journals: “Much of the Scientific Literature, Perhaps HALF, May Simply Be Untrue”Escapee......kudos for the link. Everyone should read this!
The medical and ag cartels with the help of doctors and government are dooming all of us to poor health. More profits for them.
No mention of the controlling authority, the Department of Education. You're just complaining about the color of the lipstick on the pig. What difference does it make?
the legacy of the "feelings" generation. nothing shocks anyone more nowadays than telling them i don't give a shit about feelings all i want are the facts, reason and logic.
+1
Very nicely said.
Sounds like America is "ready" to elect a 76 year old female lawyer. America's presidents used to box and hunt and farm. They were military men in their youth. There's no greater sign of decline than electing an elderly grandmother to lead your nation. None.
Being a member of the "victim class" is the most desirable thing in America today. Being an "oppressor" by starting a business or being successful is much less desirable. Make judgements, having values, holding to morals, being genuinely religious - well, these are all monstrously hateful things today in today's America.
Thick Willy, I agree with you that conservatives are being on the verge of persecuted, in the US, by a coalition of social liberals
On the other side, conservatives in the US are not very peaceful, themselves. They never sound as if they would not return the favour
Particularly on the moral and religious side. Or in their support of the greatest war machine the world has witnessed, or in the support of their favourite oligarchs
victimism abounds, in the US... as much as political aggression. you know what? they are linked
I grew up in the socialist nation of canada. I taught university 15 years ago and it was scary then. There are many things wrong with the university as an educational institution.Too numerous to tell. The best thing that can be done is to make people pay directly for their education rather than take loans. Then they will make sure their investment in educaiton is actually worth something.
I went back to private industry after 1.5 years because I couldn't feed my family. We are all eating well now.
Exactly. My firend the genetics prof is amazed that he has kids in his university biology classes that don't belive in evolution! and they expect to have their view catered to. He has about had it with the no nothing conservative christians nut bars and how they are ruining education.
Awe, poor overpaid professor scared of not reaching the nirvana of tenure. I learned to cut meat while attending college evenings. I will never lack for work because I was willing to work 8 and attend classes 4 to 5 hours a night. I didnt sleep a whole lot and I ate a lot of apples and peanut butter,,, noodles etc. I was turned down a game warden job because I was white and the man of darker skin was given the job. I grew up hunting, fishing and camping and knew the woods and waters. This was the beginning of affirmative action culture in the 70s. The man who interviewed me said the man he was giving the job to "didn't know a quail from a turkey" but his hands were tied.
Poor, poor professor. Pensions, benefites, unions, impossibility of being fired and now he is worried because his pablum filled class of lies has turned out students that my take exception to his BS? Wow. We give trophies now the first 8 spots for showing up. Self esteem has become a religion. You can't open your mouth in a group of 6 or more people without "offending" someone.
We worship a poor pitiful man who was once an Olympic champion and now so tormented that he believes he is really a woman. The whole medical community that supporst this devience is just as twisted as this poor man. See, I will express my opinon. I have that right. It may cost me friends. It may cost me potential business clients. It may cost me many things. I won't change who I am or what I believe to accomodate others feelings or enrich my position. We have become a nation of over sensitive, fat, lazy and whining mamby pamby feelings oriented pussies. And by the way no offense to pussy as a noun.
White, intelligent, heterosexual males are the enemy. Men have been castrated as a class. Look around your average suburb in white America. You see a married couple in full body armor with their kids on bicycles with helmets riding on the sidewalk. God forbid they should fall and skin a knee. We climbed a water tower in the neighborhood to mark the passage from grade school to middle school. We knew if we fell we would die. That was growing up.
If our country is invaded by foreign hordes we will sing them Barnie songs and tell them how much we love them. We will tell them we appreciate their culture and their tribal laws and rules. We will tell them how "inclusive" we have become as a culture. We will tell them how much we love the practice of their laws and culture. We wouldn't want to offend them and we are after all "free thinking." What a load of rubbish.
Good luck mr professor. I am truly heart broken that your ivory tower is infested with the maggots you yourself have cultivated over the past 2 or 3 decades. Enjoy as they destroy what you have so carefully groomed and coddled to line your pockets. God help us. Good day all.
North Carolina’s second-largest newspaper publishes White man's letter to the editor.
Tom Shuford: White Interests Raleigh News Observer, May 30, 2015
the only thing worse than a whining white man is a whining jewbag. buck it up loser. this asian kicked your ass without affirmative action fair and square. need a fucking job? whiners need not apply.
I'm not sure sure that Asians don't get the benefit of Affirmative Action in the USSA, since most positions (from jobs to university entrance) favor ANY nonwhite - though it is true that most Asians are probably more intelligent than most American White's, who tend to be of British Anglo Saxon stock, as opposed to Germanics.
I was recently listening to a podcast by a Phd (White guy). He dropped out of high school in Michigan and later took a GED. His scores were so high he was offered a scholarship to the U of Michigan because the state thought he was a Negro, since the overwhelming GED grads were Negro. When the agency discovered he was White they dropped the offer.
affirmative action was initiated by a jew. ironically a jew in california( bakke) sued the state university system as the first test case when he was not accepted to a college in lieu of a black man. the court ruled against him.
no self respecting asian uses affirmative action as a crutch to success. in fact, there is a discrimination lawsuit brought by some asians against some ivy league school for capping the representation of asians despite having overwhelmingly better academic performance.
affirmatve action is the black man's crutch(because he cannot compete) and the white man's excuse for personal failure.
Are you really that naive?
Affirmatve action is the white man's tool to encourage the lazy and discourage the ingenious. And it has worked perfectly.
Wh;ite's have lost the Will to Power - but unlike the American Indian, will not be given their own reservations - just shoved to the bottom of the economic and political heap to be constantly berated.
I think what we have here is a failure to communicate (new ideas to young students).
Fact is, some "teachers" have selected the wrong profession. Perhaps someone had told them the pay was fantastic and the hours short?
Stupid liberal professors embracing memes of "social justice" created this monster. Poor crybabies. The protective bubble of academic life no longer protects them from the fucked up world they created for the rest of us.
Want social justice? Read the Constitution, there it is.
spot on! he and his fellow profs should look in the mirror to see the culprit(s).
'This infestation of cowardice, anti-intellectualism and fear has permeated almost every nook and crany of American life, including academics. So much so, that a college professor has just penned an article titled......"
There's the pot calling the kettle black.
Liberal professors now afraid of their little jr brown shirts? Haha.
The monster has turned on its creator.
These students know they "deserve this" and they "deserve that"... if they do not get what they want, threaten a temper tantrum, lawsuit, and/or a 911 call.
Perhaps some will become producers by learning life's lessons the hard way.
The author presents it like majority of collge kids are "hyper sensitive" etc. Reality is that a only a small minority (liberal activists and teachers) create this situation.
Same way in the Soviet Union, majority of people realizied absurdity of socialist dogmas and propaganda, but they were controlled by minority of communists. Switch "communists" with "liberals" and you get USSA today.
Such situation in universities and mainstream media is a natural outcome of socialism/liberalism, I think, - when you have a government which steps in to make everyone equal in all aspects, you get lots of people who feel entitled. It is enough for them to scream "Enequality!" for Gov. to come in and "equalize" everyone thru coercion (i.e. take someone's freedom of speech or property to make them "equal")
When I began learning the alternate and unallowed narrative, first about the actual financial situation and then the political. I naively thought others would appreciate the information I learned and would want to act on it, especially regarding their investments in 401K and IRAs and the need to protect all their money based on the the state of the financial world.
NOBODY CARED!!!!! NOBODY WANTED TO HEAR ABOUT IT!!!! EVERBODY THOUGHT IT COULDN'T BE TRUE!! I WAS A CONSPIRACY THEORIST!!
Not one of them did any individual investigation. SO WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT IT!! was the refrain.
Guess what? I no longer talk about the things that are common knowledge on Zero Hedge and I certainly don't talk about the information on the Centre for Research on Globalization.
I have accepted that the lemmings are going to go over the cliff, because they do not want to hear anything that makes them uncomfortable.