Posted on 01/06/2017 7:54:58 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
As day follows day and January 20 approaches, my colleagues and students experience something along the lines of Shakespeare's Sonnet 60: "Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore, / So do our minutes hasten to their end." As far as they're concerned, the ascent of Donald Trump spells D-O-O-M.
It is easy to understand why they believe it. Professors and administrators at the best universities in the land have gone so deeply into identity politics that they can only regard him as an atavistic clod. They have raised the ordinary frictions of daily affairs into a melodrama of microaggression, heteronormativity, and ableism, and Trump won't respect the new rules. They create safe spaces for all — my university library brought dogs in before finals so students might drop by, cuddle, and de-stress — and now every presidential tweet and interview promises to despoil those spaces.
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Good article.
I went through the education system a ways back.
Then I went back through (went back to college later, for more studies) and was quite shocked by what had changed. I returned to the same university, but was frankly shocked at what a pc mixed up place it had become.
Trump could do big, big things in American education.
About darned time.
“They create safe spaces for all — my university library brought dogs in before finals so students might drop by, cuddle, and de-stress — and now every presidential tweet and interview promises to despoil those spaces.”
That’s right snowflakes. We’re kicking down the door to the safe space, and we’re going to take your comfort dogs and teach ‘em to hunt. Cute defenseless little fuzzy animals. For meat. With firearms!
I will be shocked if he is employed after the semester at Emory.
Trump's biggest contribution to American society and culture won't even have anything to do with his policies. His election has changed what ideas and rhetoric are considered acceptable and mainstream.
For instance, before he made building the wall a centerpiece of his presidential campaign, the only acceptable debate between Democrats and Republicans was on how to create a "pathway to citizenship" most effectively. Anything else was considered "extremist" and "fringe." Now immigration restriction is back on the table, however reluctant establishmentarians are to admit to it. The same thing will apply to a whole gamut of issues where the PC Left has either silenced or marginalized the opposition and co-opted the establishment "Right".
THEN when it comes time to get a job...they MAKE SURE that they FIT perfectly INSIDE THE BOX. I taught at the college level for 27 years.
Lol. My colleagues were so liberal but wouldn't debate with me because I was a whole lot smarter about WHY I was a conservative. They couldn't buck the logic of it all.
Mmmm, gives me a warm glow thinking of it.
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I won them all over one time. It was during one of their stupid strikes.
I drove on to the campus and was met by my colleagues, all snarling and growling.
Then I opened the HUGE box of fresh, warm doughnuts that I had brought JUST FOR THEM. They all melted into an oozy puddle of goo.
The strike lasted for three days and I was "waved in" the next two days.
So much for the "determination."
Well put.
Great idea. I ought to convince a friend of mine to volunteer his black lab to these cuddle sessions, and show the thumb-sucking students how the dog they're cuddling was retrieving downed ducks for us all morning.
But hey, at least the snowflakes will still have their blankets, pajamas, hot cocoa, crayons and play-dough to comfort them every time Trump says something they don't want to hear.
You magnificent bastard! Thanks for the laugh.
Most likely, the PC activists will convince one of Bauerlein's students to falsely accuse him of sexual harassment, as in the play/movie Oleanna.
I think Trump’s Presidency will be even more transformative than Reagan’s. The Reagan revolution was primarily economic and geopolitical. Trump’s revolution will transform our entire political culture.
Interesting background.
Thanks for your post.
That would be "bitch." :o)
What male would use THIS color?
I agree.
I think we go through big changes societally, which happen too far in every direction sometimes, and they seem way, way, way overdone now. Almost an entire generation now.
This is long overdue.
America is going to be renewed. About darned time.
I would think so.
Thanks.
Always a pleasure.
Dr. Jordan Peterson describes it as teaching them pathological behaviors psychologists try to unteach patients, such as catastrophizing and projection.
If they do something you don’t like, you assume horrible malicious intent and blow it up into a massive deal.
If they had ANY backbone THEY would run for office, starting with their own local small-time positions and then RISE to the occasions so that they could put forth THEIR OWN ideas.
What are the chances that they will do that?
>>Now immigration restriction is back on the table, however reluctant establishmentarians are to admit to it. The same thing will apply to a whole gamut of issues where the PC Left has either silenced or marginalized the opposition and co-opted the establishment “Right”.
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It is worldwide. Before Trump’s election, “nationalizaton” (vs. “globalization”) and “populist” were both epithets, virtually the equivilent to “racist.” The Left had claimed the high ground on these terms and basically cowed people (who thought they were in the minority) who honestly thought their country’s interest should come first.
Brexit was considered an aberration by a physically and currency isolated group of people. Nervous-making but nothing that can’t be dealt with.
Trump’s win has emboldened Juan, Joe, Dieter, Ivan, etc. that not only is “nationalism” OK but it is the DOMINANT philosophy. These guys now feel they can proudly and loudly (stole that back from the lefties) declare they care about their country first.
Future historians will point to the (now inevitable) fall of the EU to the election of Trump, giving credit to Brexit for starting it.
These youngsters could use a little bit of the educational institution that I embarked upon at age 17 upon graduation from high school. This institution is in the wonderful state of South Carolina and is on an island called Parris Island. It is the University of USMC boot camp.
I am not in favor of bringing back the draft. We have plenty of young men and women who will gladly take up the burden of defending our freedoms without government coercion, but if a program could be set up where these pantywaists could spend 3 months on the island, I think it would do them a world of good....
Hell, I’d come out of retirement and don the smokey bear again just to teach these snowflakes how to be men and women. I might do it free of charge...
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