By Professor Doom
I’ve mentioned a
few times how identity politics is dementing our campuses, turning them into
basket cases that no longer focus on education and research. I trust many of my
readers have seen reports of campuses shut down due to student protests demanding
certain skin colors or genders get even more special considerations than they
already do.
Such protests are
the end-game of diversity, they happen once a critical mass of the campus is
controlled by the part of the administrative caste that actually follows this
ideology (as opposed to the part of the administrative caste that is just in it
for the huge piles of plunder).
Before these riots
happen, the social justice warriors/SJWs/progressives/Leftists/Marxists, or whatever
you want to call them, slowly tighten their grip. They test their strength
first with small outrages, establishing control over what should be trivial and
freely practiced things, then increase their oversight until rioting is
inevitable. These little outrages rarely make the national news, barely make it
past the campuses where they happen, but I want to highlight a few of them
here, so that my gentle readers can be aware to the possibility of more
ridiculous protests in the future.
Civilized (and even
primitive) societies have been having costume parties for, what, millennia?
College students perhaps have more than most, and I certainly attended a toga
party or two in my day.
It never occurred to me (or any sane
person, I suppose) that wearing a toga was offensive to Italy, the country
which once held the heart of the Roman empire (where togas were the tuxedos of
their time).
Anyway, the students at the above campus
had a tequila party (drinking being another common student pastime), and, being
a party, there were other festive things involved:
Those “other things”
included the miniature sombreros, several inches in diameter.
That’s right, mini-sombreros, likely
legitimately worn in Mexico today as often as togas are legitimately worn in
modern Italy. Harmless enough silliness, one would think. But no, our campuses
have huge administrative fiefdoms that really have nothing better to do than
stick their noses into people wearing goofy mini-sombreros:
And when
photos of attendees wearing those mini-sombreros showed up on social media, students
and administrators went ballistic.
“Ballistic” is
the word here, as students were banned and kicked out of the dorm for this
“inappropriate” behavior. Naturally, student government (a reflection of the
insane administration) sees the fake crisis as opportunity to grab more:
Within days, the Bowdoin
Student Government unanimously adopted a “statement of solidarity” to “[stand]
by all students who were injured and affected by the incident,” and recommend
that administrators “create a space for those students who have been or feel
specifically targeted.”
Please
understand this outrage is fictional, no actual harm was done here, and anyone
who feels truly harmed by someone, somewhere, wearing a mini-sombrero should
probably seek psychiatric help (as much as I’m loathe to subject a human to
psychiatric pharmacology). I’m hardly alone in feeling this way:
One student of Guatemalan
and Costa Rican heritage, freshman Brandon Lopez, pronounced the whole
kerfuffle “mind-boggling” and called the disciplinary consequences a
“travesty,” especially in light of the dining hall’s Mexican night a week
later.
--the hypocrisy of things
like Mexican night is what leads to rioting, as the ideology itself is
fundamentally flawed by hypocrisy. No culture is without sin, particularly SJW
culture, which nevertheless is very eager to throw stones.
It is a
travesty, although only a small one as yet. The important detail is that the
SJWs on this campus have tested their power, and will want for more. Expect
protests here soon.
Let us
consider another campus.
Conferences
are an important part of the college experience, especially for the motivated
students. It gives them an opportunity to meet the movers-and-shakers in a
field or industry, a chance to hear the latest developments.
As an
administrator, if industry leaders agree to come to your campus and help your
students at a conference, you say “yes, thank you, you’re welcome to be here
because we believe in helping out students.”
Well,
that’s what you say if you’re a sane
administrator. SJW administrators care nothing for helping students, ideology
is everything. So, in response to an offer of help from industry leaders, a SJW
leader says “Do you have the right kind of genitals?”
Why is
the complete madness of these people tolerated so? Perhaps the rocks in their
hands have something to do with it?
The
gentle reader who thinks I’m simply exaggerating how insane these people are
need only consider:
USC Cancelled an Awesome Video Game Panel for Including Too Many Men
The title
is a bit misleading, as the issue wasn’t too many men. The issue was there were
no women on the panel:
The
University of Southern California cancelled its planned "Legends of the
Games" event after the lone female participant signaled that she
wouldn't be able to attend. Administrators made the determination that an
all-male panel was unacceptable, and killed the event—a mere four hours before
it was supposed to start.
There was no
concern for education here, this was a purely ideological. The panel would have
included a representative from Blizzard (you know, the WarCraft company?), to
give some idea of the student opportunity the administration threw away in the
pursuit of their ideology. The female
who dropped out, incidentally, apparently did so for SJW concerns (she didn’t
want to sit on a panel with men on it), but this is irrelevant next to the
simple fact:
Administration at
USC doesn’t give a damn about the students, it’s all about the power. I promise,
there will be protests here eventually.
This ideology
really is quite toxic, and the day will come when the ideologues will start to
realize nobody is pure enough for it…when this day comes, these useless idiots
will turn on each other. This will lead to even more rioting.
Please understand,
this sort of silliness goes on quite often on campus, sometimes the SJWs fail
to seize power, but usually they win, and thereby get that much closer to
destroying the campus.
While I reckon the day where this type of
madness ends can’t come soon enough, but as of now there are only hints that the
rightful self-destruction of this ideology will occur:
Philadelphia
was host to White Privilege Conference 2016 this weekend, where the attendees
blamed the evils of society on everything from the “Christian hegemony,” to people not using Justice Sonia Sotomayor‘s name
for their computer password. The Daily Caller provided extensive coverage of
this PC minefield-of-a-conference, but what might have been the weirdest thing of all was
when participants decided that the conference itself had become a bastion of white supremacy.
This is rather
the problem with self-hatred: you must also hate your own beliefs, making SJW a
very problematic long term system of belief for any human being.
The only question
remaining here is: can our campuses outlast this toxic ideology? The prognosis
is not good.
