Thursday, March 9, 2017

"Snowflakes" Graduate to Title of Cupcakes

 https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/03/06/middlebury-engages-soul-searching-after-speech-shouted-down-and-professor-attacked
About a week ago, Middlebury College in Vermont broke out in outrage from the appearance of Charles Murray who was supposed to speak on their campus. "What transpired instead felt like a scene from Homeland rather than an evening at an institution of higher learning." Says Allison Stanger, a political scientist who is a professor at Middlebury College. She was called to moderate the lecture from Charles Murray. These frail, easily offended "cupcakes" had mustered up their strength to cause so much of a riot, they surrounded Stanger and Murray, and physically attacked Allison by yanking her hair to the point of her requiring a neck brace the next day. Many from Middlebury claim that this behavior was shocking from their students to a guest speaker; this information got a pretty good chortle out of me, that this is a surprising behavior from the same students that are holding puppies in their safe spaces, calling any passerby a bigot for not agreeing with them. In another article by Bernard Goldberg, had much to say about these students and their immature behavior. He also touches on the exact reason these students are so opposed to Charles Murray's speaking is because of a book he wrote, "The Bell Curve", in 1944. the book's context itself had some controversial writing, because it linked intelligence levels to "heredity and briefly brought race into the discussion," says Goldberg. With this information alone, Murray is labeled a racist to said cupcakes.
All of this outrage and temper tantrums have very meaningful reasons behind them, I'm sure, but when push comes to shove it boils down to one word i can think of that summarizes this: exhausting. Yes, we understand the upset and mourning people have over Hillary's loss of presidency, and that some will go as far as they see fit to go against everything our current president says and stands for. But personally, I find that resisting mercilessly will get you nowhere, leaving you exhausted and the only one in tears at the end.

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