Robert Stacy McCain on self-flattery and groupthink:

If your worldview is decisively formed within the insular climate of an elite university, the equation “liberal [i.e., leftist] = smart” is a formula you can never permit yourself to doubt, unless you are willing to admit that you have been hustled, scammed and bamboozled. A fellow with a diploma from Harvard or Stanford cannot confront the possibility that he has been swindled like an ignorant hick playing a carnival game at the country fair.

One of these.

As a Harvard student, all she wanted was a “safe space” to express her identity and her “more radical views.”
And then it all went wrong.

Bill Whittle on 16-year-olds and voting:

Teen voters, the younger the better, are exactly what the left is looking for. They know no history; they base all of their decisions on emotion; they have no real world experience in terms of what works and what does not. They haven’t the slightest idea of discipline or delayed gratification. They live in a world of fantasy and wish fulfilment; they make demands that cannot be met but they’re willing to settle for an ice-cream cone. They are utterly dependent on others; they’re desperate to conform to the cultural norm, and in general they are the perfect, pliable, ignorant, utterly emotional, reason-free, easily-manipulated vote farm that the progressives need for their power grab.

One of these.

An attempt by Santa Barbara art students to provide a “comfy, squishy environment” in which to cultivate “positive vibes” doesn’t entirely go to plan.

You’re at university, go and ask a humanities professor. Learn something.

Like how to justify banning white men from all student politics, forever.

No clapping is allowed. No laughing either.

An academic speaks. Anonymously, of course:

Personally, liberal [i.e., leftist] students scare the shit out of me. I know how to get conservative students to question their beliefs and confront awful truths, and I know that, should one of these conservative students make a Facebook page calling me a communist… the university would have my back. I would not get fired for pissing off a Republican… The same cannot be said of liberal students. All it takes is one slip — not even an outright challenging of their beliefs, but even momentarily exposing them to any uncomfortable thought or imagery — and that’s it, your classroom is triggering, you are insensitive, kids are bringing mattresses to your office hours and there’s a Twitter petition out demanding you chop off your hand in repentance.

One of these.

And mild titillation must be shared out fairly.

Or, When Progressive Education Policy Goes Horribly, Horribly Wrong:

Just weeks after “empowering teenagers,” San Diego public schools witnessed a surge in violent assaults.

And not just in San Diego.

As Seattle’s restaurants begin to go out of business ahead of the $15 minimum wage law, the comment below was offered in reply to a typically pious and self-flattering leftist:

No you don’t get to get away with that. You don’t get to advocate policies [i.e., higher minimum wage laws] which allow you to use force to deprive people of their jobs and their opportunities, and then claim that those who would have provided the jobs are the heartless ones. You don’t get to trot out the insipid, mindless, tendentious talking points about how you are morally or intellectually superior when every “solution” you proffer is destructive and is based upon forcing others to do your bidding. You don’t get to decide whose job is worth preserving and whose isn’t and still claim the moral high ground.

As yet, the leftist in question has not seen fit to respond.
One of these.

Jim Goad on “social justice education” and the shaping of young minds:

I’ve looked over the [dictionary] definition [of racism] many times and still haven’t seen an addendum that says, “….but only when white people are doing it.” So for the time being, the official definition of racism does not contain any such “whites only” clause. But according to Luke Visconti, a white man who is the CEO of something called Diversity Inc, such dictionary definitions of racism are indeed “too white.” From a cursory glance of his website, I suspect that everything may be “too white” for Visconti — possibly even himself. If he were offered the magical ability to moult his skin like a snake and emerge as a coal-black Haitian, I tend to believe he’d accept the offer, provided there was no salary cut.

One of these.

Students at the University of California, Irvine have denounced exposure to the American flag as potentially inflicting “hate speech” on passers-by. Indeed, the mere sight of it could make young intellectuals burst into tears and feel terribly unsafe.

Don’t forget the self-described “bacon-eating vegan” who was left shocked and tearful upon discovering that her degrees in “social justice studies” and “gender studies” have zero value in the job market. “My degrees mean NOTHING,” tweeted she. “I don’t even know how to process the reality that is my life now.”

On pretentious students, their enablers, and the misplaced moral glamour of defaulting on student loans.

Women in the US have been harnessing [witchcraft’s] power for decades as a “spiritual but not religious” way to express feminist ambitions.

Yes, it’s from the Guardian and, yes, it goes downhill from there.

Roger Kimball on the unacknowledged charms of Swedish multiculturalism:

In 1975, the Swedish parliament unanimously decided to change the formerly homogeneous Sweden into a multicultural country. Forty years later the dramatic consequences of this experiment emerge: violent crime has increased by 300%. If one looks at the number of rapes, however, the increase is even worse. In 1975, 421 rapes were reported to the police; in 2014, it was 6,620. That is an increase of 1,472%.

One of these.

“Whenever I’m a bit lonely it feels like I’m eating with someone else.”

< panhandle >
It’s fundraising week over at my place. If anyone here would like to help out, you’re more than welcome to.
< /panhandle >

From poorly-choreographed wrestling to radical door scraping, students of performance art attempt to blow our minds.

“I began to wonder what it must be like to be a young man at university, sitting through course after course after course, whether it was an English course, a history course, a philosophy course, or sociology, whatever, and just hearing about how the whole history of humanity had been a history of men oppressing women. And how, even now, supposedly, he should feel bad about his ‘privileges’. Hearing over and over again about how you’re responsible for all the bad things in the world, that if there were fewer men or they were just less manly, somehow we wouldn’t have any more war and everyone would live abundant, peaceful lives, and if women were more collectivist oriented and egalitarian… All these things demonstrably not true if anyone has ever spent time in a women’s organisation or lived with a bunch of women.”

Janice Fiamengo questions feminist orthodoxy and is punished for her wickedness.

Words you mustn’t use on campus. Including “angry,” “passive,” “exotic” and “illegal.”