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Universities Cave to Snowflakes (Walter Williams)
Creators Syndicate ^ | January 25, 2017 | Walter E. Williams

Posted on 01/23/2017 3:25:36 PM PST by jazusamo

One wonders just how far spineless college administrators will go when it comes to caving in to the demands of campus snowflakes. For those unfamiliar with the term "snowflakes," it is increasingly being used to characterize college students easily traumatized by criticism and politically incorrect phrases. They demand safe spaces and trigger warnings so as not to be upset by views that challenge their own. Snowflakes feel as though they must be protected against words, events and deeds that do not fully conform to their extremely limited, narrow-minded beliefs built on sheer delusion. This might explain their behavior in the wake of Donald Trump's trouncing of Hillary Clinton.

Generosity demands that we forgive these precious snowflakes and hope that they grow up. The real problem is with people assumed to be grown-ups — college professors and administrators who tolerate and give aid and comfort to our aberrant youth. Let's look at tiny samples of it.

To help avoid microaggressions, the University of North Carolina administration posted a notice urging staff and faculty members to avoid phrases such as "husband/boyfriend," which they claim is heteronormative, and "Christmas vacation," which "minimizes non-Christian spiritual rituals."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: education; highereducation; leftism; leftismoncampus; safespace; sanctuarycampuses; snowflakes; walterwilliams
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1 posted on 01/23/2017 3:25:36 PM PST by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Defund and they will all quickly go away


2 posted on 01/23/2017 3:28:31 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: jazusamo

heteronormative?
Really?


3 posted on 01/23/2017 3:30:01 PM PST by samtheman (delete * from executive orders where author=obama)
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To: jazusamo

I read here somewhere that macro agression melts snow flakes


4 posted on 01/23/2017 3:32:25 PM PST by Thibodeaux (the end of Obama plague is near........ rejoice)
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To: ronnie raygun

Yep, I believe that’s the only way to get the attention of the hardcore leftist administrators in these lib universities that allow these people to carry on like idiots.


5 posted on 01/23/2017 3:33:01 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: samtheman

That’s a new one on me too, I had to laugh when I saw it, isn’t that a hoot?


6 posted on 01/23/2017 3:34:44 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jazusamo

If the federal government can attach strings to federal funding via Title IX to force colleges to have equal funding for women’s sports, and kangaroo courts for rape suspects, they can and should attach strings requiring colleges to take disciplinary action against students who disrupt conservative events.


7 posted on 01/23/2017 3:38:48 PM PST by pstwwl
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To: jazusamo

If I was on a college campus, I would walk around with a backpack full of baby pacifiers for the crybabies.


8 posted on 01/23/2017 3:40:54 PM PST by joshua c (Cut the cord! Don't pay for the rope they hang you with.)
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To: samtheman

I guess that means homoabnormative is the opposite. Is the “ab” for abnormal or abominable, I don’t care.


9 posted on 01/23/2017 3:44:11 PM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: Thibodeaux

Just walk up to them and say “Boo - Trump” and watch them quiver and melt right before your eyes - or go running screaming to some safe room somewhere to suck their thumbs.


10 posted on 01/23/2017 3:46:33 PM PST by SkyDancer (Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: jazusamo

Liberalism = Artificially Induced Mental Retardation


11 posted on 01/23/2017 3:48:21 PM PST by samtheman (delete * from executive orders where author=obama)
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To: King Moonracer

All libs are Abby Normal.


12 posted on 01/23/2017 3:50:26 PM PST by samtheman (delete * from executive orders where author=obama)
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Go President Trump!

Please bump the Freepathon or click above to donate or become a monthly donor!

13 posted on 01/23/2017 3:51:08 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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14 posted on 01/23/2017 4:04:08 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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Excellent! I love it.


15 posted on 01/23/2017 4:10:53 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jazusamo

Gov’t funded RACISM:
‘The University of Maryland is hosting a series of postelection lectures on how a “commitment to white supremacy” gave Trump momentum and blaming “white America’s spiritual depravity” for his rise to power.’


16 posted on 01/23/2017 4:12:52 PM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: jazusamo

I want to recognize all Jesuit Universties as leading the Socialist charge.


17 posted on 01/23/2017 5:12:29 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (Imagine that!)
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To: ronnie raygun
You're right, it's all about the money.

Like G. Gordon used to say, once you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

18 posted on 01/23/2017 5:26:29 PM PST by gogeo (But he's not a conserrrrrvative!)
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To: jazusamo

they must be protected against words, events and deeds that do not fully conform to their extremely limited, narrow-minded beliefs built on sheer delusion

Sums it up rather nicely!


19 posted on 01/23/2017 6:57:39 PM PST by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: jazusamo

Public schools condition kids to be emotionally crippled social misfits and the colleges finish the job....


20 posted on 01/24/2017 3:13:22 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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