Posted on 12/19/2015 1:22:11 PM PST by Kaslin
Our own Katie Pavlich over at Town Hall came across a poll of college students taken back in September which is either a hopeful sign for the future or some “too good to be true” sampling errors run wild. A survey conducted by Inc./Woman Trend of one thousand college students age 18-24 sought to capture their feelings about Social Justice Warrior issues currently driving protests on campuses around the nation. The results, as I already implied, are shocking to say the least.
A new scientific poll sanctioned by Young America’s Foundation and conducted by Inc./Woman Trend shows the majority of college students reject the “microaggression,” politically correct culture plaguing campuses around the country. Specifically, the poll shows college students rejecting the use of gender pronouns.
I found the survey worth bringing up because it taps into many of the specific subjects which curmudgeons such as myself frequently find worthy of a robust, Get Off My Lawn response. One of them is the long running nag about using “gender inclusive pronouns” in professional and educational documents, as well as the weird new “alternate” pronouns designed to hide the gender of the subject so as not to offend anyone.
Sixty two percent of students disagreed that professors should have the right to downgrade students for failing to use “gender inclusive” language like “mankind” instead of “humankind” in reference to men and women.
Not even half (49%) of LIBERAL students agree with implementing the use of pronouns like “ze,” “zir,” and “xyr” on their campus.
There were some other goodies in there which seem to skew surprisingly conservative when compared with the impression one gets from watching the ongoing protests. For example, nearly 70% had a negative view of the Black Lives Matter movement, agreeing with a proposed statement describing it as having, “cultivated an anti-police culture.” Free enterprise got a thumbs up from 35% of students while only 15% preferred socialism. (Seriously? HALF of you couldn’t make up your minds? Where are your parents?)
That sounds great on the surface and I’m not here to simply throw cold water over their efforts, but I still have to ask… is anyone buying these results? I’m not saying it’s impossible, but if these preening, special snowflake complaint festivals which dominate the news, get administrators tossed out on their ears and shut down campuses are really all that unpopular, where are the counter-protests? How is it that the silent majority on campus portrayed by these numbers remains to stubbornly silent?
One possibility is that the liberal claptrap is coalescing on a smaller number of campuses. Remember, this was a survey of students at colleges all across the country. I suppose it’s possible that a significant majority of universities have students who are annoyed and/or embarrassed by all of this nonsense, but we just don’t know about it. It’s not as if the media is going to show up at those other universities to cover the story of how there were once again no protests that day. Might that explain it?
As for the broad rejection of Black Lives Matter, I would hope that this sort of common sense is actually prevalent. But in that case you might literally have a lot of students who are simply afraid to speak up. Contradicting the BLM protesters seems to be a good way to make sure you get hounded out of school and never get your degree. But hey.. it’s the Christmas season. I’ll choose to believe these figures are accurate just to cheer myself up, at least for the next couple of weeks.
Pat...or just, “hey you”...
Funny, I was thinking just this morning that the current campus foolishness might be producing a lot of conservatives.
well, what do xe know anyhow?
You can’t get any more gender-neutral than “it”. :=)
They’ve FINALLY gone too far, and the students know it. Next step, tuition refunds! ;)
I dont like the Bureau of Land Management either.
For a moment I thought the students were rejecting the Bureau of Land Managment.
Dammit!
Yea you used to say Cockpit now it is Flight Deck!!!
A Proper respne to the entire lot of then is “BUGGER OFF!”
What is this talking about?
I don’t understand any of it.
The old saying, “the noisy wheel gets the grease,” I believe applies. Take a few protesters, complainers, and all the attention goes upon them, especially the anemic media.
The majority of students are studying (yes, many do) and those not in college are working. At any rate, most are busy and counter protests don’t materialize - it’s not their thing. IMO
Step 2: Ted Cruz explains conservative ideas to millennial college students. They have never heard anything like this before, but many of them find that these ideas make a lot of sense.
Box office
Reminds me of the joke:
Hillbilly Freshman at Harvard: Can you tell me where the library’s at?
Upperclassman: At Hahvahd, we don’t end our sentences in prepositions.
Hillbilly: Ok, then. Can you tell me where the library’s at, a$$h01e?
Can you imagine those students who want to teach English overseas teaching gender neutral pronouns to their students. I’m sure that will go over well with the administration./s
The science and engineering students are in the library. If you actually have time for that crap you're probably a liberal arts major.
I think everyone should get a participation trophy. Why should only those that attended college be called a “college graduate”?? Everyone is a college graduate now. Attending college will no longer mean anything as why should students get the label and no one else?
I’m sure many college freshmen who think they’re going to enjoy four more years of high school are shocked to see the seamy side of racial politics from which they’d previously been insulated. Here in heavily-segregated NJ, colleges are one of the larger pseudo-industries that replaced our manufacturing economy, and I’m sure for many non-black students college is their first encounters with blacks in any numbers (those in the set-aside seats) and certainly their first with poor urban blacks. The racial animosity and unreported plague of sexual assaults on campuses are probably a shock to them.
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