Posted on 03/28/2016 9:35:31 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has never been known as a venue for self-help seminars, but in 2016 it happened. A session called Campus Crackdown focused on practical steps that conservative students could take to counter the growing epidemic of protests known as the "snowflake rebellion." Launched by these students' anxiety-ridden counterparts, posing as fragile little snowflakes unable to cope with the mere idea of viewing unsavory Halloween costumes, the movement that has been successfully covered up by politically correct campus administrators, was exposed as another left wing attempt to censor free speech.
Princeton University senior and panelist Josh Zuckerman described the "snowflakes" true agenda in no uncertain terms: "Hey, I have a victim complex, I’m offended, you offend me, your ideas offend me, you need to be re-educated and your ideas need to get off my campus."
Meanwhile, panelists such as author and radio host Charles Sykes; Karin Agness, founder of the Network of Enlightened Women (NeW), and Everett Piper, president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, suggested that the best way for students to confront this situation was to stand up and make their voices heard by starting or joining a like-minded organization, and writing letters to the editor. Dr. Piper’s viral op-ed "This is not a day care, it’s a university!" was mentioned as a textbook example of how to confront this issue.
Josh Zuckerman noted that the Princeton student snowflake movement actually had a plus side. Amid their demands that the school require teacher sensitivity training and classes on "“marginalized peoples," he and "some like-minded dissenting students" were inspired to launch the Princeton Open Campus Coalition (POCC – a pro-free speech group, which believes that everyone on campus has the right to advance their beliefs in a manner that’s free from intimidation and free from university orthodoxies.)
The panel ended with Zuckerman’s advice to students that rather than wasting time on ad hominem attacks, the only way to win the battle against the politically correct culture on college campuses is to stand up and fight it with reason and knowledge.
The “Snowflake Rebellion”... hahahaha! That’s it exactly!
The part that angers me is that many of these universities are in states with Republican-controlled legislatures and Republican governors. Yet the state governments don’t seem to be doing much to stop it (with a few admirable exceptions like the one state senator in Georgia). The states could shut this nonsense down immediately by demanding due process and true free speech as a condition of funding.
Has anyone done any real research to find out how many/what percentage of the student populations are actually represented by the snowflake rebellion? I know quite a few young people, and strongly suspect that it is merely a very vocal minority who are not quite up to the responsibility of studying. . .much like the kabuki theater we see in Congress.
The idea is that if they promote it loud enough and long enough, it will become true (aka George Orwell’s 1984). I’d like to see some real stats on this, instead of just the media PR making it look like we have an entire generation of idiots to inherit our nation.
Also you must remember the media promotes them like crazy. It is almost a media movement staged for and by the media. the vocal minority puts their best-looking people up front to get in the camera shots.
The part that angers me is that many of these universities are in states with Republican-controlled legislatures and Republican governors. Yet the state governments don’t seem to be doing much to stop it (with a few admirable exceptions like the one state senator in Georgia). The states could shut this nonsense down immediately by demanding due process and true free speech as a condition of funding.
Although I wonder if those GOP legislators in those states are as “snowflaky” as the snowflakes?
The students should fight the Snowflakes, but they have a huge disadvantage with 98% of college administrators and faculty opposing them. Vehemently.
Just wait until those participation award winning special snowflakes graduate from those diploma mills. When they realize their masters in Ubangi transgender studies, Aztec Lesbian drum beating whatever irrelevancy they’re majoring in wouldn’t qualify them to operate a French fry machine at McD for minimum wage, then these cupcakes will REALLY have something to be traumatized over. And there ain’t any “safe zones” in the real world.
>>Excellent point. These are public institutions
Often they are not. For instance, the recent case of the snowflakes freaking out over someone chalking “Trump 2016” around the campus was at Emory University, which is private. I believe there was a recent event at Yale as well.
The real issue is the overall culture in most of academia, which agrees with, or at the very least takes seriously, these demands.
If I were on campus today I would be having a blast agitating these people. Their complete lack of self esteem, self restraint, common sense and hipper sensitivity would make it to easy to resist.
If chock on the side walk "Trump 2016" is all it takes for them to have a complete emotional breakdown I would have them all in institutions by then end of the first semester.
Nothing would be so exciting and rewarding than to watch their descent into complete madness. They are already 80% there already, time to give them a shove.
My idea to fix this issue will take some time, but we have to start somewhere, and is as follows:
Student loans should be like mortgage or automobile loans. The amount you are loaned is dependent on your ability to repay the loan.
A person making $40K a year will not be approved for a $60K car note.
So, assuming a student is employed in the chosen field of study, a more generous loan can be made for student in a STEM field of study, while only smaller loans should be made to students in courses that end in “studies”.
Again, this will take time, but eventually the fields of study that create the majority of the perpetually offended, will become smaller and less influential, while fields of study grounded in logic and reality will grow.
“would have them all in institutions”
That’s the spirit!
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