Posted on 02/08/2017 8:17:35 AM PST by rktman
The left-wing students who riot on campus, declaring they are offended on behalf of their racial, religious or gender identity, have become a cliché already.
Americans around the country note that they seemingly spend more time destroying property than studying, and many, especially conservatives, smirk at the delicate, overly emotional students, derisively called “snowflakes.”
But what is an avalanche but a lot of “snowflakes” moving in the same direction, and Scott Greer, author of the new book “No Campus For White Men,” argues it is a dangerous mistake for conservatives to dismiss them.
After all, they’re winning.
“Identity politics really does work in the public sphere,” Greer told WND. “They do see it as working. I think every time they see a success where they bring down a university president, or get people fired, or are able to intimidate and harass students in order to make them leave campus just because they support Donald Trump, that only emboldens them to keep using these tactics. And they will keep identifying by their racial or gender identity rather than appealing to logical argument and reason.”
Greer penned his book after seeing left-wing students successfully take down the University of Missouri’s president because of allegations of “racism.”
University enrollment has plummeted in the aftermath, leading Greer to question why the university allowed such radicalism to flourish in the first place.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Some of these Commie punks aren't doing this for FREE.
I don’t think conservatives don’t take them seriously. That they may express humor and sarcasm on occasion doesn’t mean we aren’t deeply concerned with what is happening in higher education. It’s frankly frightening.
The author is correct. What we are seeing here is an all-out attack on free speech. All the snowflakes have to say is that anythin they disagree with is "hate speech". Then that speech gets shut down.
The really troubling thing here is how much of the establishment seems to agree with this approach.
Will there be a push-back? Possibly. But IMHO, it is more possible that this approach will become ingrained in our society. It's a real threat, indeed.
Nothing “neo” about them. They are straight out anarchists and communists
Our future leaders. God help us.
Threat? What’s? Is there a shortage in the world’s supply of Pla-Doh?
SJWs are authoritarian liberals in contrast to the more egalitarian classic liberal. But classic liberals aren’t willing to rein in their over-anxious and thus domineering to the point of violence peers because they share the same ideology.
The end result is classic liberals either justifying the violent liberal bullies’ actions, minimizing the harm or engaging in a “no true Scotsman” fallacy. Like the violent Berkley rioters being called anarchists instead of admittedly liberal.
It is akin to moderate Muslims denying the Islamo-fascist terrorists quoting the Koran and acting per Mohamed’s example are really Muslim while blaming general society for the actions because of the fear of Muslims (caused by such acts of violence and tacit support by the moderates).
In both cases, the moderates don’t want to admit the violent ones are acting out of the same ideology, much less rein them in, in part because they tacitly agree with the violence to strengthen the power and influence of the ideology.
Dr. Jordan Peterson, Where Do SJWs Come From?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_fBYROA7Hk
The Left has finally found their Tea Party
Guess they couldn’t hit “equality” and “inclusiveness” with a 12 gage. Which, hopefully, most of them would be too skerred to touch anyway. Fidiots.
That looks like serious fun.
Not to pick nits, but these “snowflakes” are out in the streets taking bean bag rounds to the chest, tossing CS canisters back at cops, and throwing Molotov cocktails.
It won’t be long till somebody hands them a crate full of AK rifles and ammunition. If you don’t think they’ll use them, you’re mistaken.
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Some time ago I described the difference between what I called Type 1 and Type 2 Snowflakes.
The context for this occurred on Hannity Forums when a forum progressive was, in response to my statements about Snowflakes, acting as if there wasn’t a difference between merely complaining in a forum were it might be expected to encounter opposing views and being overwrought, needing to retreat to safe spaces.
But there is more than I addressed, something we now see in the works: how a Type 1 Snowflake becomes a Type 2. The point at which retreat becomes advance....
I wrote:
(Originally Posted by mkh)
Again, if you think that it’s only progressives that are snowflakes, then you should rethink things.
(Me)
You talk of righties complaining. I talk about lefties bawling their eyes out while seeking safe spaces safe from dissent.
Now, there are lefties who only complain, lots and lots of them, but I’m not talking about them.
But where, pray tell, were all the uncontrollably sobbing right wing masses when Obama was reelected. Where were the guys so distraught that they needed safe spaces and it was reported in the news?
I’m not talking about being upset, I’m talking about things like being grief stricken.
Did we hear of college campuses excusing conservatives because they just couldn’t go on the day after election in 2012? Were there offers of counselling?
And more importantly for the distinction: were those conservatives who might have been truly devastated (as opposed to mere disappointment or being upset) in 2012 acting out, were they taking their tears public, on the road and getting noticed?
Now, on another level I do need to make mention that the sort of “snowflake” I’m speaking of here is only what might be called a “Type 1 Snowflake”, or one that is marked by being excessively fragile in the face of disappointment or confrontation. There is a “Type 2 Snowflake” that instead operates from the idea that “grievances” rooted in other folks not being sufficiently submissive or subordinate to them, that understand “grievance” emerging not as a matter of someone actually wronging them but from a supremacist POV, that I acknowledge and certainly reference ... and it’s not in America at this time a “left wing thing”.
An example of this “Type 2 Snowflake” would be way many Muslims speak of having grievances against those who are presently free of Sharia Law’s boot ... which has been likened to if someone under old Jim Crow were upset that a black on a bus didn’t give up their seat to them and claiming that as a “grievance” sufficient for them to act out.
Here we can see that Type 2s are very distinct from Type 1s. Where a Type 1 may be easily offended their response is to retreat, to cry, to need a hug. A Type 1 that gets enraged will still wallow and basically retreat. They are comical and pathetic. Type 2s are arguably easier to set off because they provide their own circumstances, and don’t have to wait for the odd bad day. They are also more violent.
Consider this to reflect the difference: a Type 1 may react to their safe space being invaded (something not requiring exceptional circumstances or events like an election) ... a Type 2 may act because someone else thinks there are places that they don’t rule over or shouldn’t rule over.
(TODAY, THIS POST)
It seems I may have been premature in assessing that Type 2 Snowflakes aren’t presently in America a “left wing thing”.
So now speculation: how does a Type 1 become a Type 2?
Consider what happens WHEN a Type 1 has retreated into their safe space, WHEN they have been hugged and reinforced and reassured ... what happens then?
Well, what about this: they become angry.
They have reassured themselves, among themselves, that their beliefs are right and good and that we are defective for not submitting. IOW their beliefs which they always presumed are right take on the supremeist POV and their grievances are now not just that they feel threatened but that they are disagreed with.
Viewed this way a Type 1 Snowflake may be destined to recover and cease to be a Snowflake at all ... no I kid.
But unless they do so, however unlikely it may be, they may be destined to become Type 2 Snowflakes and it may be unavoidable.
The antifa “black bloc” that attacked at bezerkley is the same group that tangled with a white supremacist rally at the Sacramento Capitol last year. this element is not the crying, whining snowflakes but hardened anarchists with a violence bent. Oathkeeper has been running undercover ops into these groups. the black bloc elements are nothing to take lightly, and successes like bezerkly will likely bolster their numbers and aggressiveness.
Get rid of Soros and freeze his assets, and a lot of this AstroTurf violence and destruction subsides dramatically.
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Soros needs to be investigated and exposed. Drag him up in front of a congressional committee and put the spot light on his activities. The DOJ also needs to look into his shenanigans.
I know the Republicans are afraid of their shadow but its high time that Soros be held accountable for instigating riots and mayhem.
Well, I'd like to invite them all to come down to Texas and see if they like their reception. Even if the police lay off them, there is going to be blood in the streets. Texas good ol' boys come armed and, by the end of the night, are going to outnumber them substantially ...
Oh, no doubt they will. Probably imports funded by georgee boy soros.
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