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The Mess On Campus

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Are we creating a generation of mentally-ill, credentialed, physically mature children?

These people will never survive in the real world.

[Update a couple minutes later]

What the Yale shame should teach us.

I spent a lot of time in Columbia over the past couple weeks.

Somehow, this seems like cheap theatrics. I suspect that if they’d had a chance at a bowl, they wouldn’t have made this threat. Amusingly, I heard this morning that the basketball team (which I’d imagine has a black player or two) wants nothing to do with it. But they still have hopes for a successful season.

[Tuesday-morning update]

The “collective guilt of white people in Missouri“:

The goal is not to establish responsibility and identify actual perpetrators. The actual goal is power: the power to make demands that will be obeyed—the power to turn the tables and reverse the power differential, putting the protesters in charge of what Allan Bloom called the “dancing bears” in the university faculty and/or administration. A central demand of protesters such as those at Missouri is almost always a university-wide process of mind-control and intimidation, with the mandatory requirement that administrators offer and faculty and students attend classes and/or workshops that describe exactly what is now required in terms of speech, thought, and behavior that the protesters deem acceptable.

In other words, the protesters want to become the official campus propagandists. Perhaps they already have done so.

Yes. And in addition to the re-education camps, they won’t be satisfied with these two scalps.

Oopsie, that was racist, I guess.

[Update a while later]

Remember this is one of the top “journalism” schools in the country:

“You need to back up if you’re with the media!” a voice in the background yelled to the journalists trying to document the protest. “You need to respect the students! Back up!”

“I am a student,” Tim Tai, a student photographer trying to cover the protest, responded.

After Tai protested that the crowd was trying to push him, several people in the crowd laughed, tried to cover the camera with their hands, and responded, “Okay, then we’ll just block you.”

“You don’t have a right to take our photos,” one of the protesters asserted, apparently unaware that he was on taxpayer-funded public property that is by law open to the press.

Later in the video, the crowd aggressively started pushing the reporter around in an attempt to get him to stop covering their behavior.

As noted, I suspect they don’t think that police has such a right to “privacy” from being photographed. Freedom for me, not for thee.

[Afternoon update]

This is a little good news. The J-School faculty is voting to withdraw the courtesy appointment of the little fascist.

32 thoughts on “The Mess On Campus”

  1. A generation of mentally-ill, credentialed, physically mature children, who are hapless and helpless in the real world. Who vote.

    This is not a coincidence.

  2. I wonder what the screamer’s major is. Maybe some of these students should find majors that leave them less time to be triggered or offended. But if you’re majoring in becoming a professional victim, I guess this counts as homework.

    1. Her name is Jencey Paz and apparently is a pre-med student. Just the kind of doctor I want to go see [rolling my eyes].

      1. Hmm. I’m probably wrong, but I didn’t think pre-med was a major. I know a guy who said he was pre-med, but his undergraduate major was psychology.

        1. It isn’t precisely a major. Yet whenever I asked incoming Freshmen “What is your major?” the reply was almost invariably “Pre-med”.

          Of course, after the first Chemistry class quiz, wherein they scored a 6 out of 100, their majors generally changed to “Business”.

  4. The more interesting question is what a generation of quivering cry-babies will do when they discover they’re of no use in the real world?

    Other than vote for socialists, of course.

    1. Accepting all your premises for a moment, I think the answer is very similar to what happened to the kids who went to college in the 1968 did: 15 years after being written off by their elders as being unprepared for the real world, they’ll produce a version of “The Big Chill”, and someone will make a whole lot of money from the nostalgic soundtrack.

  5. Edward,

    I’m more interested in finding out how they react when they finally come face to face with the fact that they cannot build a sterilized, ultra-safe cocoon. You know…like when they get mugged by a guy in a mask (triggers galore).

  6. Actually, I don’t think many of them want to go out into the real world. By real world, I mean to work for a living at a for-profit company. They’ve been told by people like Michelle Obama that they should work for non-profits, NGOs, academia, or the government. There, these students will be sheltered for the harsh reality of expectations. In academia or the government, they can inflict their insanity on the rest of us.

    1. Most people work for others. Not so many people start their own business. These kids will be sitting at a desk complaining about how they need more paid leave, higher wages, less hours, better benefits, and that in general, they make more money for the company than they are paid.

      They may have a good understanding of the tasks that they do daily but they don’t know anything of the business as a whole. Similar to an athlete who does well at one position but not others and certainly couldn’t be the one calling plays or running a practice. This leads to people not knowing how much their employer contributes to their health care plan or how much the employer spends on unemployment insurance, medicare, and social security.

      They apply this ignorance to other businesses like restaurants claiming that franchise owners are millionaires and billionaires that can afford to pay their workers unlimited sums of money if only the owners weren’t so greedy. They will march in the street, if paid, scream on the internet, and support politicians who feed their fantasies.

      But they are pussies lack the initiative to start their own business and live by the ethos they want to force on others. Starting and running even a small business is really hard from a business standpoint much less dealing with the regulatory environment created by people who think that punishing businesses will lead to prosperity for everyone.

      1. I saw a tweet today “Mizzou is definitely on my list of schools from which to never recruit employees.” I saw similar tweets about Penn State graduates in the wake of Jerry Sandusky. It’s unfortunate, because I know many good engineers from both programs. For every Mizzou student wasting their Tuesday creating “safe spaces”, I’m inclined to think there’s another Mizzou student wrenching on a Formula SAE car or with their nose in a textbook, trying to understand Navier-Stokes equations. Please don’t let a few (okay, several bushels) bad apples spoil the bunch.

        1. Oh, I agree with you. I don’t view the entire college one way or another. I meant to refer specifically to the activist class and its a nationwide problem.

    2. True. Few of them want real jobs that require them to actually do anything…. just some non-job where they get paid regardless of results.

      But that’s the fast track to economic collapse.

    1. Can’t believe there were administration cappos behind the line using the Democrat activists to physically intimidate the photographer and warning him not to touch anyone then saying, “Don’t look at me. Its not my problem.” When the students started pushing him was pretty crazy. And the gall of these Democrats to claim that they have first amendment rights but the student photographer didn’t and would be arrested… wow… yelling at the kid and then telling him he can’t raise his voice?

      I remember when Democrats would say harsh things to anyone who worked with authority figures and now they have administrators and professors acting as cappos.

      Will any Democrats try and put an end to this or are they afraid that they will be bullied out of existence for not supporting their militant activists with an appropriate level of enthusiasm?

  8. Nix football. Nix NCAA athletics altogether. Institute inter-mural programs for those who want to play an organized sport, outside of academic hours.

    Let the NFL, NBA, & NHL set up their own minor leagues & amateur Triple-A, like MLB if they want to groom players… And be done with the fiction…

    Cart-horse anyone?

    1. That would still leave the cancer of militant Democrat activism that forces colleges to inculcate students in Democrat ideology while training future dictators.

    2. Better yet, it’s time for state capitols to remember the Golden Rule – Them with the gold, makes the rules – when it comes to higher education.

      No more state-supported useless Studies programs. No more Tenure. No more Education majors as Teachers or administrators in government schools. No more Athletics as a Major.

      In short, Universities need to turn out well-rounded people who go on to become contributing members of society (i.e., get a real job at a private concern and pay more in taxes than you receive in handouts), not useless cysts on the backside of our country.

      1. Not sure about today, but, a year or two back, student loans were the single biggest source of new credit in the US economy. Stop handing kids hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Tarantino Studies degrees, and the economy would collapse.

        We literally seem to be at the point where the only way the US government can keep the economy going is to convince kids to borrow staggering sums of money to spend on partying for a few years.

  9. The Tim Tai incident is interesting as it looked like there were other people with cameras and microphone equipment moving around freely who looked like they took some delight in how Taiw was being treated.

    “Yes. And in addition to the re-education camps, they won’t be satisfied with these two scalps.”

    The 1980’s called to say that The Wave was not an action plan. Obama was probably sitting on a couch smoking a doobie, complaining about how Reagan created AIDS to kill black people, and taking detailed notes. “What a great idea for a logo.”

    We are living in The Wave.

  10. “University of Missouri Student Body President Payton Head issued a chilling warning of a “confirmed” Ku Klux Klan presence on campus Tuesday — only to admit it was not true hours later.”

    Makes you wonder if the swastika was a hoax too..or planted by the dissidents themselves.

  11. “Mizzou Hunger Striker Claims He’s Oppressed, Rips ‘White Privilege’ – Comes From Family Worth $20 Million.”

    Do tell………………

    How oppressed he must feel!

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