Faculty guide: Make class a 'safe space' with 'oops/ouch' method

Campus Reform ^ | March 14, 2017 | Amber Athey

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Actually, I’m in favor of this, because it helps to incorporate “the vampire effect” in the “inferior mentalities” (as Daffy Duck would say) of leftists.

The vampire effect is that leftists use psychological conditioning on themselves to have a negative emotional response to ideas they oppose, like Christianity, Right To Life, conservatism, gun liberty, and words like “Jesus” (respectfully and with good context, not as curses), “patriotism”, “honor”, “heterosexuality”, etc.

And these responses get stronger and stronger, the end result being, at least in some cases, that leftists react to even the symbols of the things they are conditioned against like a movie vampire reacts to the display of the cross, cringing back in horror and retreating. Not just an emotional response, but a trained, physical one.

Which, if you think about it, is just peachy from our point of view. That is, if confronted by annoying, preachy or aggressive leftists, who absolutely refuse to shut up, just pull out a crucifix and watch them skitter away like roaches when the kitchen light comes on, finally shutting them the heck up.

Conditioning is actually an interesting process. Classical conditioning uses natural responses to reinforce the conditioning, think Pavlov’s dog, who would be conditioned by hearing a bell ring while it was eating, so when the bell was rung at a non-meal time, it would start salivating. It is also used with pain, such as learning to not touch a hot stove.

But the other kind of conditioning, Operant conditioning, is reward/punishment based, rewarding for making the “right” choice, and either getting nothing, or even punishment, for making the “wrong” choice.

Operant conditioning is what their leftist indoctrinators want to be doing, by training students to say “Ouch!” when faced with an idea leftists hate, and they want their students to automatically reject and shun. In exchange for this behavior, the students are rewarded with praise.

Were it just being done with low intelligence animals, like B.F. Skinner’s pigeons, trained to peck a particular switch to get something to eat, it would be one thing, but in this case, they are trying to condition undergraduates, who at least have the intelligence of squirrels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EnDwkclDcA

This means something entirely different, that their students may actually *want* to be conditioned, so are willing to go *beyond* Operant conditioning, to train and reinforce, and even *increase* their own conditioning, beyond the emotional response to become a physical response.

And they might use Classical conditioning to do so.

Just like leftist/liberal college professors are realizing that their students are not satisfied with liberalism, and are becoming extreme to the point of intolerant of their professors for even the tiniest of doctrinal failure, so to does their Operant conditioning show signs of becoming Classical conditioning.

And thus, “the vampire effect”.