Courage And College Republicans

The American Conservative ^ | 23 Oct 2020 | Rod Dreher

[Rummyfan]

This week I drove down to Thibodaux, Louisiana, to give a Live Not By Lies talk at Nicholls State University. Thibodaux is Cajun country. It is not the Bay Area. It is not the Upper West Side. It is not New England. It is a conservative place. But earlier in the week, the Social Justice Warriors made their malign presence known on campus in a big way.

Last weekend, the campus College Republicans chalked pro-Trump messages on the sidewalk. Such as:

“Geaux Trump” is the most Louisiana MAGA thing ever.

Anti-Trump students had a meltdown. Over chalk. On a sidewalk. Here is a parade of fragile students speaking out at an extended student government meeting, all of them outraged that other students expressed a political opinion — support for the re-election of the President of the United States — that caused them anxiety. I’ve cued the video to the first speaker. There’s a long line of them....

[Rummyfan]

Oh the horror! Precious little snowflakes offended and feeling threatened by an innocuous political message. The state of our young in higher education is truly disturbing.

[calenel]

I’m back in school and the SJW crap is ubiquitous. And I am a hard science (Math & Biology) major. First, you have to take all the general education requirements, which are, without exception, crammed full of overt and covert indoctrination. Then, any science class has to pay lip service at the very least to AGW and human depredations on the environment in general. Even in the math courses it comes up. I have a hard time not responding to the BS, but I’m not willing to out myself at this point. Whenever possible I sidestep the issue(s), like for papers in freshman comp I stuck strictly to science facts as my topics and avoided anything remotely political or politicized. But you have to work a lot harder if you aren’t going to snuggle up to the SJW-mandated curriculum.

[Mase]

Not so long ago, the sciences were devoid of this nonsense, but that has changed dramatically. My son is in his first year at UF and is taking all STEM classes. The indoctrination is rife. He receives multiple emails every day asking him to vote (for the environment/social justice/integrity, etc.) with a map of all voting locations.