Posted on 05/13/2015 12:33:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The good news for my generation is that we finally make up a controlling portion of the working population. The bad news is, that there probably aren't enough blankies and nap rooms to accomodate all of us as we graduate into the real world. At least, as some of us graduate into the real world. Others of us have too many things to do to take time out of our day to cuddle stuffed animals and gripe to each other about the cultural appropriation and microagressions typically associated with the Patriarchy.
Thankfully, college students have no such demands on their time, which is why a cadre of Columbia University students are able to, collectively, pen an op-ed calling on their institution of higher learning to take a second look at the foundational works of Western literature and the building blocks of modern thought in order to preserve their adorable, innocent and easily-triggered minds from the mere threat that they might have to welcome in an opposing viewpoint or critically consider historical cultures in addition to their own coddled experience.
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The teacher didn't even need to pass out pacifiers or blankets to smooth our fears... / S
Mythology ts full of microaggressions.
The modern generation is totally ignorant of Greek mythology.
The last “Clash of the Titans” movie finished with Perseus strolling off with Io (his grandmother), instead of Andromeda, like the mythology teaches.
Hey, note to you millenial fuzzballs: Read a little Greek. Maybe some Dante’s Inferno. It’ll scare your knickers off. And if you didn’t study a little Old Testament there at the girl’s school, try a couple chapters out of Revelations. You ignore our old history and the lessons it teaches at your own peril. Or you could just be happy that the Holy Romans burned down the great library at Alexandria so you wouldn’t have to bother with all that fundamental knowledge. That only set humankind back 1,000 years which brings us back to your pathetic limp wristed azzes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymede_(mythology)
You’d think they’d be all over the non Edith Hamilton versions of Greek Mythology.
The thing that scares me the most is that I am assuming these kids never really studied the Holocaust during school. Because that would have reduced them to a blubbering pool compared to Greek mythology.
This “triggering” nonsense has gotten out of hand.
I guess Dungeons & Dragons is right out then.
Damn nerds microagressing everyone.
Micro does come from Greek through Latin. But I think aggression only come from Latin.
The book of Revelation is in the New Testament.
All these asses want is habituate everyone else to saying “how high” when they say ‘froggy’. Oddly it has been working pretty well for forty years now...
After the baby boom generation is gone, China will walk in and take over without firing a shot.
Are you kidding?
The death of depth and the collective works are upon us.
They represent the full written history of mankind’s thoughts and experiences written primarily by white people.
That can no longer stand.
Besides, is way too much work.
Soo much easier to declare them outdated, old.
Superficiality rules the day.
History is old.
Deep thinkers are old and tainted by those cleaver white racists that came before them.
Uncertainty rules the day.
Their time is not to build on knowledge that came before them, their time is to destroy all historical knowledge in order to create a world of indifference.
This is what the left wants.
A world of indifference.
No right or wrong.
In their minds, you are always wrong if you declare something to be wrong. Never mind their self refuting arguments because they are immune.
I couldn't agree more. If a student is allowed a veto on anything within a course that causes anxiety, why not homework, testing, and (shudder) grading?
Whoever called this tendency "narcissistic" was correct. The pattern I've observed in a couple of web forums is: "Oh, for me that needs a trigger alert. I am a victim of abuse and I, I, I, I, I..." ad infinitum. Ay, ay!
I had to do this in high school in Freshman year. No big deal. We had to do the Odyssey and I did my report on Medusa. It was very interesting. I really hate this generation.
“After the baby boom generation is gone, China will walk in and take over without firing a shot.”
And that might be a blessing if the alternative is to have these little easily triggered snowflakes in charge.
Calculus triggereed the crap outta me, lemme tellya. Some privileged old white guy talking about a number approaching infinity, and I about tore up my damn snuggle-blanky right there. And the the massive microaggressions that poured out of the other students who claimed to understand it, passive-aggressively shaming me by not asking any questions... the whole thing just brought me right up against my limits. It was years before I integrated the experience, and even now I have a hard time differentiating between agressive and non-aggressive numbers.
and even now I have a hard time differentiating between agressive and non-aggressive numbers.
Here’s a clue and a place to start.
The number 1, is aggressive.
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