Saturday, February 20, 2016

What a neat trick to pull off: Simultaneously being delicate snowflakes and goose-stepping jackboots

The infants-in-young-adult's-bodies at two of post-America's most prestigious sewers of indoctrination get the vapors bad.

At Brown, the multitasking just gets overwhelming. Scott Johnson at Power Line points out the irony that Natan Sharansky the campus guest who gave the SJWs such an undue set of extra demands above and beyond regular studies knows a thing or two about stress himself:

Natan Sharansky is one of the great men of our time. Charged with fabricated crimes as a citizen of the Soviet Union, he suffered for years in the gulag until his eventual release and emigration to Israel. He tells the story in his moving memoir Fear No Evil. He has turned his experience to good use in thinking through issues of human rights, as in The Case for Democracy (with Ron Dermer) and, most recently, Defending Identity.
When Sharanksy visited Brown University late last month to speak with Michael Douglas, the campus’s social justice warriors turned out to protest his appearance (a protest preceded by a campaign of defamation against Sharansky). The Times of Israel reported on what Sharansky and Douglas had to say at Brown in “On tour, Douglas and Sharansky urge a ‘more inclusive’ Jewry.”
The Brown Daily Herald reports that Brown’s social justice warriors are stressing out keeping up the claptrap. This is hard work. They are experiencing a form of combat fatigue. Nobody knows the trouble they’ve seen:
“There are people breaking down, dropping out of classes and failing classes because of the activism work they are taking on,” said David, an undergraduate whose name has been changed to preserve anonymity. Throughout the year, he has worked to confront issues of racism and diversity on campus.
His role as a student activist has taken a toll on his mental, physical and emotional health. “My grades dropped dramatically. My health completely changed. I lost weight. I’m on antidepressants and anti-anxiety pills right now. (Counseling and Psychological Services) counselors called me. I had deans calling me to make sure I was okay,” he said.

And the campus guest at Rutgers, Milo Yiannopolous, had the kiddies verily trembling in their boots:

Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos made an appearance at Rutgers University, and his ideas and rhetoric so traumatized the delicate flowers who heard him that many of them attended a "group therapy" session afterward.
You are not going to believe what happened next:
According to the paper, students and faculty members held a wound-licking gathering at a cultural center on campus, where students described “feeling scared, hurt, and discriminated against.”
“A variety of different organizations and departments were present to listen, answer questions and show support” to the apparently weak and vulnerable students, who just a few days prior had disrupted Yiannopoulos’ event by smearing fake blood on their faces and chanting protest slogans.
One student at the event told the Targum that they “broke down crying” after the event, while another reported that he felt “scared to walk around campus the next day.” According to the report, “many others” said they felt “unsafe” at the event and on campus afterwards.
“It is upsetting that my mental health is not cared about by the University,” said one student at the event. “I do not know what else to do for us to be heard for us to be cared about. I deserve an apology, everyone in this room deserves an apology.”
A number of organizations were at the event to offer support to the poor, traumatised students. These included Psychiatric Services, the Office for Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance, and the Rutgers University Police. However, as far as we know, none of the protesting students were institutionalized, arrested for vandalism, or for assaulting the peaceful attendees of Milo’s talk with red paint.
Rutgers students are displaying clear-cut signs of the crybully phenomenon, whereby the regressive left feels victimized, traumatized and attacked even while they are viciously attacking others. In the case of Milo’s talk at Rutgers, there is no question that their behaviour encompassed vandalism at the very least. Yet the students still believe themselves to be victims — so much so that they set up therapy sessions and complain about their mental health.
Is this some kind of Onion parody?  Imagine, if you can, these students – attending one of the top undergrad colleges in America – going out into the world after graduating and trying to get a job.  They will devolve into a pile of Jell-O at the first sign of resistance to their spectacularly idiotic worldview.  They are not only unemployable.  They will have to be institutionalized for their own sake.  
Maybe there's a solution forming there. Just make explicit the transformation of post-America's universities into institutions of constant care for traumatized cattle-masses.






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