By Professor
Doom
Project Veritas was in a the news a few
weeks back, with video showing the Clinton campaign was behind the violence at
Trump rallies, sending instigators to incite attacks. Strangely, the video was
discounted by the mainstream media (MSM) because it was edited—the strange part
being that edited video of Trump saying mean things over a decade ago was
perfectly legitimate in MSM eyes. On Election Day, we found out Americans are
tired of the bizarre hypocrisies and ludicrous false equivalencies that seem to
dominate every aspect of life, but back to today’s topic.
The Project Veritas videos showing the
extraordinarily illegal activity by the Clinton campaign overshadowed an
earlier video, where Veritas got campus administrators to, quite literally,
shred the Constitution:
I want to talk about this video; while the
slant in the article is how our administrators don’t care about the principles
upon which this country is founded (and they don’t), the article fails to
consider why this is so…and the
reason provides hope that we can fix this.
Somewhat blurring the line between “investigative
reporting” and “instigation,” Veritas sends in a reporter to pose as a student,
traumatized by being exposed to the Constitution:
Administrators at Vassar College
agreed to personally shred a pocket Constitution after an undercover reporter posing
as a student complained that she felt “triggered” by its distribution on
campus, while professors at Oberlin College confided that they shared the
reporter's misgivings about the founding document.
Now, some may discount Veritas’ video here
because of the deception practiced, I’ll give them a break. It’s not like they
were deliberately trying to incite violence and then blaming their targets for
being violent, after all.
The fake student goes to Admin with the
usual idiotic tale of woe:
“Last week something kinda happened
on campus that kind of really upset me and I ended up having a panic attack,”
the reporter tells Vassar College Assistant Director of Equal Opportunity Kelly
Grab. “It’s just I’ve been kind of hiding out in my room ever since kind of
scared, so, finally somebody told me I should maybe come talk to you about it
and see if there’s anything that can happen or anything … They were handing the
Constitution out on campus.”
--note the admin’s title, Assistant
Director of Equal Opportunity, is well over twice as long as her name, so meets
my standard for a position that can be safely eliminated.
The admin, rather than laughing off this story
and telling the student to grow up, does what her real job entails:
“And so what I think you’re sharing
with me is that your interaction in receiving this was harming, right?” Grab
confirms. “And that’s what we certainly want to avoid; we don’t want to limit
people in exchanging ideas or having opposing viewpoints, but when it’s
disruptive or causing harm…”
Now, here’s where I disagree with Veritas.
Yes, the admin then takes the Constitution to a shredder and destroys it, page
by page, to make the student happy. Yes, this is offensive on many levels and
demonstrates a woeful lack of education on the part of the admin…but I disagree
with the implication that admin’s job has much to do with destroying the
Constitution, as Veritas implies.
No, this administrator’s job, like most
every administrator on campus now, is to make the students happy. Education, helping the student grow into a better
human being, has nothing to do with it. So, if the student complains about
the Constitution, the administrator will put the Constitution into a shredder.
But if the student complained about a kitten,
the administrator would put the kitten into a shredder as well.
So, yes, watch the videos and see with your own eyes that our campuses are now filled
with administrators whose only purpose, despite their splendiferous titles, is
to make students happy at any cost. That cost has already included sacrificing
education, and we can see that the cost also includes shredding the
Constitution, and, I promise, if the cost were shredding kittens, they’d do
that do.
That’s what “make the students happy at
any cost” means, after all.
But this is the sign of hope: we don’t
really have campuses bloated out with an administration determined to destroy
the Constitution, and by implication we have lots of people who think
destroying the Constitution is a good idea. No, we just have campuses bloated
out with people whose only purpose is to cater to students’ every whim, no
matter how idiotic…the issues here are really that simple.
It’s just their job…we can fix much of
what’s going wrong in our campuses by eliminating these jobs and, as before, a
good rule of thumb is just to close every position with a title that’s twice as
long as the administrator’s name. It seems like every post in my blog I identify
such an administrator.
This rule is no more idiotic than what
passes for everyday administrative behavior on our campuses today, and will
reduce campus operating costs by billions a year.
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