Much to the dismay of the narcissists attending Yale University, their incessant whining has mostly been pushed out of the headlines by real tragedies. However, a postscript juxtaposition is clearly in order:
From an adult named Rex Murphy: University Administrators and real professors should take note: every brain needs a spine
From a child posing as an adult named David Rossler: Hurt at Home – Letter from the Editor
Be sure to read the comments of the latter editorial. They’re not letting Rossler off the hook one little bit. Many are priceless, such as this one:
Yale University is not charged with protecting you from the world, but rather, preparing you for it. It would seem that too many students at the University have been living in a hermetically sealed echo chamber , in which they only hear opinions with which they are comfortable , and they become hysterical when confronted with an opinion that dares to differ from their own . Please don’t confuse the role of master in the Yale College with that of Nanny in the nursery . If you are not prepared to grapple with intellectual challenge, woe betide you when you enter the adult world.
as Rush Limbaugh says, young minds full of mush.
It’s just a swastika, get over it
No evidence of any of the events that were used to justify the rediculousness and certainly no evidence of due process, just Maoist despotism.
Just get a cat….
I have a pile of resumes on my desk at the office. Just tossed the Mizzou resume in the trash. Not worth the risk. Shit people do has consequences…
Too bad for you little yale snot buckets but this is the real world not the world of flowrs and fun so get used to the fact that not everyone want to be your friends so just GET REAL and GET A LIFE and finaly make yourself useful get a job and stop lying around all day in your dorms clicking your remotes what happened in paris proves theres still evil people out there
Yale was always intended to prepare the sons of the privileged for a world that would jump when they said hop and not make them work very hard.
If they’d wanted anything to do with the real world, they would have never gone to Yale. They’d have joined the army. That’s what the poor kids have to do. With all the honest work being outsources, a uniform is the only realistic path out of poverty left.
So this is par for the course. The real problem is that the real world will soon run out of sinecures in government for these brats.
Their parents should be ashamed. What the hell were you doing raising those babies?
Perhaps the professoriate, insecure in their Marxist narratives, are using the brats to ensure no debate or critical thought penetrates their echo chambers. As Steyn says, 90% (particularly liberal arts) shouldn’t be going to universities in the first place. It’s the professoriate that needs to find real jobs and for most even those will disappear as soon as Macdonalds mechanize burger flipping thanks to the professoriate wanting a $15 minimum wage.
the comments are truly priceless. they yield no quarter, point a 50,000 watt spotlight on the infantilism and hypocrisy and introduced a new word: crybully.
comparisons to the Red Guard of mao’s era are spot on.
how long will it be until the majority of the whiners are turned down @ job interviews and via some mechanism, learn it is that silly business back at the alma mater that got them blacklisted? with a glut of graduates nowadays, who in their right mind would knowingly put a brain on the payroll ripe for cries of ‘hostile workplace, bla bla bla’. appropriately, THAT would constitute their very first lesson in the ‘real world’.
The argument of having to deal with the “real world” is a non-starter which is what people seem to be missing, not just on here but over at PJMedia.
While most of these individuals won’t, a critical mass of them will be getting into government positions via application or election and into the “law” field where they will have influence over public policy. The “progressives” that are already there view this stuff as being a bonus on one’s CV.
The ones that don’t go that route will vote for the ones mentioned above.
If Rex Murphy wanted to champion intellectual honesty, he would never need to leave his place of employment or speak to anyone beyond there.
The comments were triggering. While they said everything I felt and desired to say, I felt intellectually inferior after reading them because I knew I couldn’t express myself as well as they did. BE QUIET! I need a safe space….
“every brain needs a spine”? Good. I am convinced that the fundamental virtue is courage, because without courage none of the other virtues can be practised.
“I am convinced that the fundamental virtue is courage, because without courage none of the other virtues can be practised.”
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. The Holy Bible says to pray for wisdom.
John says: “As Steyn says, 90% (particularly liberal arts) shouldn’t be going to universities in the first place.”
Amen to that! The worst change in the history of education was the development and implementation of the notion that everybody and their dog need a university degree. The consequences are there for everyone to see: (1) real and decent jobs are often shunned and have been greatly devalued or driven to extinction; (2) the search for a career by both men and women have greatly affected the quality of family life, besides delaying its onset; (3) our low fertility rate (and I include myself in that bunch, stupid me) coupled with the devaluation of real and decent jobs (see #1) leads to a need to import workers either on a temporary basis, or through immigration (keep in mind that European countries, most now with low birth rates, needed to bring in foreigners by the truck load, so that these foreigners’ children could finance the pension system); (4) professions that require a post-secondary education, in particular a university degree, also lost ground, since the job market in many professional areas (although not all) is saturated.
The infantilization of students in general – a direct consequence of a toxic mixture of a bubble wrap school system and parents absenteeism – is just another brick on the wall of mediocrity that Western society has been erecting in the last number of decades.
For SDA readers who might wonder about the original letter which triggered these responses.
The original letter to the editor was “disappeared” at the writer Jencey Paz’s request.. presumably he realized just how much it make him look like a total moron. And perhaps friend reminded him that corporate recruiters know how to vet prospective employees with online searches.
Alas for our poor little Jencey.. this snowflake seems as technologically unaware as he is emotionally crippled. His original letter is still on the Wayback internet archive. Read it and weep. Or laugh.
https://web.archive.org/web/20151107010454/http://yaleherald.com/op-eds/hurt-at-home/