Posted on 04/12/2015 5:03:53 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
You’re just not as tuned in to the “frightening realities” of the world as this kid is. A Brown University senior wants everyone to know that he’s not weak for wanting “safe spaces” where he won’t feel offended or uncomfortable — it’s just that he’s smarter and more culturally aware than you are so you wouldn’t understand.
In response to an article that a classmate wrote that criticized “safe spaces,” Joseph DiZoglio writes: “The current rally that generational pundits make against me and my peers in college today is that we have forsaken freedom of speech and multiple viewpoints for ‘comfort.’” “I’m afraid that it is a product of jargon that is too easily mistranslated by opinion columnists hoping to pass a deadline,” he continues in the letter, a portion of which has since been published in the Wall Street Journal. “If delved with any honest intent into the vast discourse of social justice, they would see how far from the mark they really are.”
Now, you might think that a kid who criticizes columnists for using “jargon” right after using a phrase like “generational pundits” won’t be capable of teaching you anything worthwhile. But DiZoglio assures you that any disagreement that you have with him is just due to your ignorance: “When I say your argument makes me uncomfortable, it is because I am greatly concerned that you have not done the requisite thought and research into generating an inclusive thesis that considers as many nuances as necessary to deliver a sound debate,” DiZoglio writes. “If you do not believe that skin color, age, religious identity, sexuality, class or (dis)ability have an effect in cultural political or economic problems that we debate at universities, then it is you who is trying to remain comfortable despite such frightening realities.”
Got it, people? You’re just not as smart and enlightened as Mr. DiZoglio is. And if you think that college kids demanding “safe spaces” are wimps who could never make it in the real world, that’s because you just don’t understand the actual real world. If only you knew as much about the “frightening realities” of the world as this bright young Ivy Leaguer. How kind of him to be “greatly concerned” for big dummies like me! Despite having pumped his letter full of words he learned on thesaurus.com, it’s clear that DiZoglio has no idea what he’s talking about. There is only one thing that he gets half right: He finishes the letter by asserting that “being uncomfortable is the strongest form of rhetoric that our millennial generation wields in the struggle against all forms of oppression.” Just replace the word “oppression” with “discussion,” and he’s right on the money. (By the way, that wouldn’t even be a huge leap considering the fact that college students have referred to common expressions like “you guys” as “oppressive.”)
These days, whining and playing the victim puts you in a greater position of strength. It’s a way to gain influence, respect, and power without having to actually know anything. After all, if someone dares to question a “cultural sensitivity” or “pro-diversity” activist, he’s labeled a racist bigot, an evil old white guy who spits on the poor, or — if he dares to challenge a feminist — a rape apologist. Knowing that anyone who tries to argue with them will be attacked is also how these people are able to casually spread false narratives (like we see with much of the campus-rape discussion) without having to actually prove anything. DiZoglio understands all of this.
You may be tempted to think that none of this matters because he’s just some college kid; but before you say “Haha, wow, just wait till this kid gets to the real world,” ask yourself: What will happen when kids like him are the real world?
“There ain’t no safe spaces at Dunkin’ Donuts once he gets his first job. And those customers can be rude!”
I’ve been in Retail for 18 years now; thank God I had an Army career prior to this, LOL!
Life Ain’t No Place For Sissies! I would NEVER hire this panty-waist Nancy Boy!
(No offense to anyone named ‘Nancy’ here on FR, LOL!)
"Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any AMERICA
because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!"
-- Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC
Chesty Puller began his 37 year Marine Corps career as a private, rose through the ranks to General and became the most decorated Marine in history.
“There ain’t no safe spaces at Dunkin’ Donuts once he gets his first job. And those customers can be rude!”
Think about it...picture him and his superior than-thou-attitude interviewing for a high paced job at Dunkin’.
No manager would hire him! I’ll bet this kid oozes “attitude and entitlement”. Next applicant please....
I wonder if his first job as a Barista at Starbucks will have some “safe spaces”? If so, he had better hope they don’t restart their racial dialogue campaign.
too late.
Except that Leo Gorcey had testosterone, not estrogen, flowing through his veins of course.
Yea sure.... Like Mario Cuomo and his “More finely tuned moral sensitivities”...
I remember that.....
Even in the 80s and 90s, employers had trouble with Ivy League kids coming in as interns and new employees. They saw racism under every desk and one even went to the president of the company to register her complaint. She didn’t last long...
“Let’s see.... he is a college STUDENT.
I am a college GRADUATE, with real life experiences.
I raised three kids. I Put Them All Through College by scrimping and saving....”
Ditto. I am a college graduate as well in mechanical engineering, not “ologyism studies” whatever. I have 25 years of experience in the real world. Culturally ignorant? I have been to 33 countries throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America, and as I type this I am sitting in Salalah, Oman, and I challenge the little bugger to even find it on a map.
And I will say with conviction that this kid, and all like him are class A pissants.
There is a lot of this going around in academia these days. Many so-called "scholarly" papers, especially in the humanities, are so poorly written, so filled with arcane baffle-gab nonsense, as to be difficult for anyone to understand.
His idea of a tragedy is when the counter guy barista at Tarbucks forgets his name.
It takes about a week cuddling in the Safe Space to cope with such an insult.
Retail is hilariously tough for weaklings! I’ve never seen such wacky behavior until I did a short stint at Barnes & Noble two years ago. And that’s a cushiony job for retail.
People are insane...and are still allowed to walk around freely!
Every day is a new adventure, that’s for sure!
Stylistically, too much Obama, not enough Hemingway.
"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over"
-- Ernest Hemingway
Wanna start a pool on which low IQ marshmallow academic joke box top major this clown is “studying”?
Nope, they should disown the idiot instead.
Wow. The kid scores a hat trick for cliches in one sentence. This kid's brain is packed with more pat phrases than a Pez dispenser. Give him a kick in the butt and he'll likely spit out a random phrase like "social justice", "micro aggression", or "white privilege".
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