Posted on 11/16/2015 6:35:16 AM PST by Kaslin
If you're outraged and don't know why, but, since your BFFs are, you are too, then this column is for you.
Trigger warning: If you're one of those precious little snowflakes who #StandWithMizzou and support the #MillionStudentMarch, be warned: the following contains potentially "hurtful" microaggressions that may invade the reality-free sanctuary of your Safe Space and leave you cowering in the fetal position.
If this is you, then read at your own risk.
For everyone else, let's define the terms:
At the heart of all this is rebellion for the sake of rebellion. It was bad in the '60s, but it's far worse now. At least in the '60s the misguided revolutionaries had the courage of their convictions and would face-down the National Guard. Today, they flee, arms in the air, for their Safe Space vacuum chamber.
Ayn Rand once wrote, "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
Those consequences are on display now.
It's been said by whom I don't recall that, to conservatives, George Orwell's "1984? was a cautionary tale. To "progressives," it's a how-to manual.
You thought this week's outburst of faux outrage on America's liberal college campuses was something new. It's not. While it looks a bit like the counter-cultural hippie revolution of the 1960s (that's the esthetic they're going for), today's "Million Student March" and the other race-baiting, "white privilege," hissy-fit "protests" at Mizzou, Yale and elsewhere, don't characterize the counter-culture at all. They are the culture. Conservative truth-tellers now represent the counter-culture.
Indeed, the neophyte Millennials raising their arms in the clenched fist salute (also known as the "Red Salute" by cultural Marxists such as the Soviet Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War and Mao Tse-tung during the Chinese Civil War) are, unwittingly, conforming, en masse, to the empty romance of "progressive" non-conformity. Freethinkers? Hardly. These kiddos need an instruction manual for toilet paper. Cute as the little buggers may be, they're but a gaggle of self-entitled, uber-naïve, malleable Marxist robots.
It's eerily reminiscent of Chairman Mao's youthful Chinese "Red Guard" (1966-76). As Encyclopedia Britannica notes, under Mao's Communist regime, "groups of militant university and high school students [were] formed into paramilitary units as part of the Cultural Revolution." These easily manipulated young people (sound familiar?) who responded "to his summons fancied themselves as new revolutionary rebels pledged to eliminating all remnants of the old culture in China, as well as purging all supposedly bourgeois elements within the government." Mao sought to abolish what he called the "Four Olds": old customs, old culture, old habits and old ideas.
How "progressive" of him.
Like the Chinese Red Guard, today's American equivalent wants lots of free stuff say, like free college and likewise seeks to undermine, if not completely destroy, all traditional values. Mao's platform shared the hallmarks of modern "progressivism": entitlement, redistribution, moral relativism, atheism and tyranny.
"While engaging in marches, meetings, and frenzied propagandizing," concludes Britannica, "Red Guard units attacked and persecuted local party leaders as well as schoolteachers and school officials, other intellectuals, and persons of traditional views. Several hundred thousand people died in the course of these persecutions."
America's Red Guard is just warming up. These "progressive" puppets protest everything at once and nothing at all. They demand hey, hey, ho, ho that their liberal mentors move with them from the leftward fringes, straight off the cliff's edge.
Or resign.
And so the grown-ups bow to the babes and resign, cower, coddle and apologize, feeding this suckling Bratzilla with the mother's milk of weakness. Rather than placating these already overindulged beasts, it only makes them stronger and encourages them to issue additional, and increasingly absurd, demands.
As long as we allow business as usual in this collegiate shop of horrors, these cultural Marxist change agents will keep manufacturing fake racial incidents, anti-LGBT "hate crimes" and any number of similarly ridiculous, yet equally effective, pretexts for remaining perpetually POed.
Winston Churchill famously observed, "If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart; if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain."
Until the adults put the children in time-out, this destructive astroturf movement, with it's delicate, yet blindly determined little flowers, will continue to blossom.
"Feed me, Seymour!"
America’s worst and dumbest.
If Charlea F. there would like to be the first to start killing, I’ll gladly give her directions to my home and be anxiously awaiting for her to come and kill me.
I am putting “You microaggress like a girl” into my rhetorical quiver.
I love the multiple layers of mocking that it strikes.
This is what happens when you don’t teach children how to achieve anything and they never learn that respect is earned by the content of a persons character. Temper tantrums and aggression only shows their lack of everything that’s important. They simply want attention and to be given everything they want and not what they’ve actually earned......a boot in the butt.
This.
And it’s not just academia, as the author correctly notes this starts with helicopter parents and at home.
I’m looking at this two ways: first it’s Liberal academia and the Left thats tearing itself apart with this. Much moreso than the GOPe-TEA Party conflict. So they can have at it.
Second, MY kids aren’t being helicopter-patented. They’re learning about success and failure, risk and reward, achievement and the need to learn and lock down tangible knowlege that provides them with tangible and marketable professional skills ... staying away from the PC nonsense.
Someday all these little SJW snowflakes will be the ones serving my kids coffee at Starbucks.
Yes but it isn’t just the parents. They start in grade school giving everyone an “award”, just because.
Yeah, I’m pretty good at nipping that stuff in the bud.
Every time one of my kids got any sort of “participation” award I’d make sure they knew that it was just about participation. Which can be valuable in and of itself, if it means they learned something and had fun. But in the context of it being a keepsake. I’ve shown them my Little League participation trophies from the early 1980s (which are stashed away in boxes) but also the game balls I was awarded for accomplishment ( which are displayed in my man cave). They know the difference between the two.
Of all things, Pixar’s “The Incredibles” helped out enormously. My kids know that great quote by Syndrome by heart. I say “When everyone’s special” they immediately reply with “then no one is.”
Amen to that.
Love it!!!!
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