I think all these opinions accurately describe members of the student mobs...
Kirbmarc wrote:
The article leaves out a possible reason why those students claim to be suffering breakdowns and skipping class: they're faking emotional pain to get out of assignments and still get easy As.
The SJWs are faking emotional pain for ideological reasons and some of them are actually so broken that an email about Halloween costumes causes them to have an emotional breakdown. Other students, however, might simply be trying to game the system.
If some professors are known to excuse people who don't attend to lectures or turn in assignments in time because of "emotional pain", many students will claim to be seriously affected by a tremendous amount of pain just to skip classes and write assignments at their leisure.
There's never a shortage of lazy students who see university as a way to get high with their friends and have fun at parties. These students might be tempted to use SJW politics to get more time to smoke joints and get drunk.
ThreeFlangedJavis wrote:
There's little doubt that the core of the problem is 'helicopter parenting'. Children are not given the opportunity to learn how to work together and hold their own with their peers free of adult control. They are brought up to need coddling IOW and I can't blame them for it because it is the only way they know how to be. They haven't had the freedom to develop naturally the way previous generations have.. If there is an element of gaming the system though, that in itself is disturbing. I can't imagine anyone from my generation showing such little self-respect as to even pretend to be so weak-willed.
paddybrown wrote:
Your view of human nature is too generous. Like I said before, the most striking thing about that video of the girl shouting at the master at Yale is, when he tries to defend himself, she screams "BE QUIET!" This is not someone who feels helpless in the face of the slightest adversity. This is someone who expects to be OBEYED.
The histrionics are simply emotional blackmail, using their willingness to cause a scene and others' desire to avoid one as leverage. They frame it in terms of pain and emotional distress because they know they're dealing with compassionate people who care about the feelings of others. It is calculated and deliberate, and it's all about power. People like that may feign patheticness, but they are not pathetic, they are dangerous.
Episode 550 of This American Life, broadcast last March, describes inner city public school kids who experience culture shock panic attacks when they visit a well-appointed prep school campus.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-a ... hree-miles Even the ones who acclimate themselves to higher education being available-- and doggedly pursue that goal-- find themselves rudderless and confused when they reach college.
Many kids in the Yale and Missou videos are black, likely from dense urban shitholes, once-bustling suburbs gone to ruin, or rural shitholes. I picture a kid from Bed-Stuy-- where storefront preachers, rastas, nation of islam, 5%ers, illuminati conspiracy theorists, crimelord rappers, & Spike Lee all offer half-baked recipes for dealing with hardship... I picture a kid from there arriving at Yale or Missou & genuinely wanting to be taught the best possible way to return home equipped to Make A Difference... instead being pumped-full of more hokum: trigger warnings, safe spaces, post-modern gibberish, victim-narrative defeatism.
My family moved a lot when I was a kid. When I finally settled into a place-- at the end of high school-- the social world I'd found a home in was scatted by graduation and everyone going-away to college. For one-hometown kids, I see the value in getting them out of the nest into new experiences. But I don't blame them for feeling vulnerable, disoriented, unsupported, afraid. I question the net societal effect of uprooting young adults from their communities.
In college, I wanted to be an intellectual, a radical, a contrarian, a downwardly-mobile stoner. I did stoopid shit identical to these brats.
