Posted on 11/20/2016 4:28:22 AM PST by SandRat
There is a new trend in American universities where “safe spaces” are provided for students who don’t want to be subjected to the rigors of the real world. That sounds odd to me since I thought that’s what colleges were anyway. When I was a college student I was always advised by my older-wiser mentors to stay in college as long as possible because the real world was just no fun.
This was particularly bad advice for someone like me who was “studying” at Arizona State. The ASU campus was already like a giant safe space where the consequences of your actions were concerned. Where else could you party all night long, sleep face-down in a puddle of drool on a table in a big lecture hall the next day, and have someone else pay for it? I mean, without getting elected to Congress that is?
Now, of course, safe spaces are proliferating throughout the academic world. These are different kinds of reality avoidance spaces than what universities used to provide. In the old days, you were protected from the consequences of your obnoxious, anti-social, barbaric behavior. It was the one place where you could speak your mind freely without suffering any long-term consequences like getting fired from your job or being beaten to death by a mob. You were allowed to speak your mind on campus no matter how ignorant you were. You then graduated from college having learned the valuable lesson that you really don’t know how stupid your ideas are until you say them out loud in front of other people. You also graduated with the skin of a rhinoceros. College helped prepare you for life because you were encouraged to excise your stupidity demons in a campus-wide safe place.
Now, university students must be protected from the overall university safe space by going into micro safe spaces. Here, they can play with therapy dogs, coloring books, and Play-Doh in a room where scary ideas expressed by other idiot college students apparently can’t reach them (or maybe, they must all suffer from the same version of idiocy before they can enter). The number of college safe spaces apparently increased after the election of Donald Trump. Truckloads of puppies and coloring books had to be brought in to help terrified college students overcome the negative psychological effects of the election. Vigils and cry-ins were scheduled. Therapy and counseling sessions were made available. Crisis hotline numbers were published. Pillows and blankets with Bernie Sanders’ image on them were distributed. If confronted outside designated safe spaces with objectionable speech, Halloween costumes, or Trump hairdos, students were advised to close their eyes, stick their fingers in their ears, and hum the Barney “I Love You” song. OK, I made up those last two things, but they could still happen.
Our universities used to prepare our young people to be captains of industry. Now, they prepare them to live in their parent’s basements and eat Captain Crunch cereal in their pajama-boy pajamas.
The problem with providing safe spaces for college students is that at some point they are going to graduate and go out into the real world and have to try and use a bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts to get a good paying job. What will be their safe space then? A few of the lucky ones will get jobs at the university where they can continue to exist in the soothing cocoon of academia, far removed from the rough-and-tumble, Trump-infested world. The rest will have to struggle in the real world where no one cares about their feelings or with providing them a safe space that has puppies and coloring books in it.
I think the only solution for these poor people will be safe-space bubbles that the emotionally frail can roll around in without actually experiencing the real world. The bubbles wouldn’t be clear plastic like a hamster ball because the occupants might see something frightening or offensive outside. Instead, the interior of the bubbles would be painted with happy scenes of unicorns, flowers, and hippy communes. Whale song music would be pumped into the bubbles to drown out the sound of people saying things that the occupants of the bubble don’t like or, scarier yet, the sound of people outside doing manual labor.
The bubble idea will not only spare the coming bubble generation the harsh realities of life, but it will make it easier to send them and their Play-Doh on the long journey to Mars where they can create a safe-space colony. We could just load them into a rocket ship like tennis balls in a tube and send them on their way. The only problem is that Trump may have already bought Mars. I mean, it is a red planet, right?
Decades ago I realized the left’s job is to reverse everything. Essentially this means what was good is now bad, what worked good no longer does, etc.
Higher education is no different. I used to thing higher ed was to better qualify a person for the cruel world ahead, to give a person an edge over the other guy in the career world.
The democrats quest to destroy America did not leave the college stone unturned, for today we have snowflakes, who are really just pansy flakes. Totally worthless cry babies that make America the laughing stock of the world.
Hopefully America will work past this, for God gave us The Donald. And I pray that God gives Trump the direction needed to begin the reversal. We are so lucky to have someone like Trump to step up and take control away from the establishment.
Most colleges today are not institutions for learning their indoctrination stations. Liberalism is a disease that infects the mind and removes all rational thought.
Liberals should be treated like radical Islamic extremist because their just as dangerous. They want to dominate and everything they touch they destroy and then move on to the next place.
The old superman comic books had bizzaro world where everything was opposite of what it should be.
Great article. Emotionally and mentally deficient young adults, pampered and protected by the equally deficient Obama regime. Heads in the sand. How many of these snowflakes dream of crawling back into mama’s uterus? How long before they’re all on antidepressants or medicating themselves with heroin?
Opposing and unpopular speech was encouraged in colleges back then. Today, the Left has indoctrinated so many snowflakes, that they oppose others' speech as "offensive" to them and their administrators enable them to become these big crybabies.
College students find out Karl Marx teaching fails to produce anything good whining makes them feel better.
Sad fact.
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