I am amazed at just how thin skinned and weak the youth of western civilization are becoming that “triggers” are required to provide a “safe environment” for college students.
Perhaps a year stint in Iraq or a 3rd world country would re-teach them the real meaning of the word “safe.”
Demerit points for The Captain. Infraction? Microagression against the youth of western civilization.
Prescient fellow, that Burns.
Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beasties…..
Western “civilization” is a freak show.
Don’t disparage this behavior.
Encourage it.
I’d agree with PiperPaul except for the fact that I’d be determined to be a microagressor for piling on.
For Pete’s sake – I have never heard anything so stupid.
Trigger warning: Mathematics – hard.
Micro-aggression? My aggression towards the left is not small by any measure. I think it would be better to call it macro-aggression.
can I claim to be triggered by trigger warnings? that way, trigger warnings will be banned and we can get back to that whole “being humans” thing again.
The idea is that “trigger warnings”, gives them a heads up in time to mount a larger protest.
The idea is that “trigger warnings” gives them an excuse, it codifies their inability to remain responsible for their own actions.
and / or protest ad infinitum…
Perhaps a year stint etc.
1. You would never get them to go.
2. If you managed to get them there you would never hear the end of the bitching about having to make their own bed. Or they how need Mommy to fix breakfast.
When did it become a matter of pride to be weak? It might explain the proliferation of lesbians.
The “trigger” thing is a pre-made excuse for psychotic behavior.
If some cis-male gender fascist such as… oh, say The Phantom “triggers” some contentious gender-flexible womyn’s studies student by wearing… oh let’s say work boots, a Dickey’s jacket and maybe a hat with an airplane on it… then she’s allowed to go totally mental on him. She can scream, yell, hit, spit, bite, anything she wants.
Because she’s been “triggered”, right? All the festering hate caused by years of being oppressed by Scotsmen wearing boots and brown jackets chose that moment to express itself. She’s not even involved. Just an innocent bystander in her own head, watching while The Man gets a beatdown from his own stored up oppression
Normally we call that “poor impulse control” and also “being a f-ing lunatic” but these concepts of self management and personal responsibility are too judgmental for the poor snowflakes.
Of course it doesn’t need to be said that this is a one-way street. If Ms. Genderwomyn “triggers” The Phantom to punch her in the face by biting and gouging him without warning, that’s no good. The Phantom doesn’t get to be “triggered”. Only the cool kids do.
Myself, I’m on a freakin’ hair trigger these days, all this triggering going on.
I’m triggered by bossy women.
RD
Rod, you can’t say ‘bossy.’
The word is verboten, unless spoken by…you know…shrews.
At this rate, as neurosis becomes the new normal, the fragile minds here described
would require a “trigger” warning before they took a course on the American Revolution.
One quote from Patrick Henry “Give me liberty or give me death.” And these students
would be hiding under their desks.
(Heck, I’m so 20th Century, I remember when the women cheerleaders took to the school
stage to raise our school spirits… now that might have required a “trigger” warning.)
From a poster on this column. Well worth saving as it gives you facts on why our universities and colleges are so left wing and shut down anyone they disagree with.
Democrats control all “education” systems.
http://www.opensecrets.org/org…
Top All-Time [political campaign] Donors, 1989-2012:
-The NEA (government teachers’ union) gave $43,613,263: 71% to democrats, 5% to Republicans.
-The AFT (government teachers’ union) gave $34,698,466: 86% to democrats, 0% to Republicans.
3/29/05 Washington Post: 72% of higher education teachers are liberal, 15% conservative; at elite schools 87% are liberal, 13% conservative.
http://www.opensecrets.org/new… In 2008 76% of college professors’ campaign contributions went to elect democrats.
2/7/11 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02… 80 percent f psychology professors are Democrats, outnumbering Republicans by nearly 12 to 1.
April 2012 report on American universities http://www.nas.org/images/docu…
“In some areas it [liberal dominance] is so extreme that it amounts to virtual
exclusion of any but left-of-center faculty members.”
5/20/12 L. A. Times: “At the University of California at Berkeley the ratio of Democrats to Republicans even in the hard sciences had grown to 10 to 1 in 2004, many times what it was 30 years ago…” “In the humanities and social sciences the ratios were 17 to 1 and 21 to 1, respectively.”
5/21/13 http://www.campusreform.org/bl…
Not a single conservative was invited to speak at Ivy League commencement events in 2013; of the top 100 universities listed by U.S. News and World Report 62 chose liberal speakers versus 17 conservatives; in 2012 96% of their political contributions for president went to Obama.
Joseph Stalin: “Education is a weapon whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
Warning; Reality is going to pulverize your poor little delusions about how the world works and human nature.
Welcome to the school of hard knocks.
Failure to cope is not a badge of pride, unless you hide in the cloistered halls of academia or retreat to mummies basement.
All cycle close, return to zero, as we are at peak stupid, so follows decay, collapse, rebuild, wealth… then repeat.
Perhaps the 5 laws of human stupidity need reread?
As most of us know, stupid gazes back from the mirror.
But stupid seldom gets free rein.
The insipid whiny helplessness of todays students is a facade.
Seems to be a whole lot of rage building up across all ages.
Only a fool forgets, the people who are most constructive are those capable of being most destructive.
Unless you build you never understand the fragility of our civilization.
The infrastructure is fragile.
Nature can and will destroy disrupt our best efforts, but only man can make it impossible to rebuild.
What consequence of turning the constructive producers to destroyers of a society that abuses their work, robs them blind and insults their every effort?
Do you really want to see things burn?