Posted on 12/20/2015 11:34:14 AM PST by daniel1212
Something strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense....
Two terms have risen quickly from obscurity into common campus parlance. Microaggressions are small actions or word choices that seem on their face to have no malicious intent but that are thought of as a kind of violence nonetheless. For example, by some campus guidelines, it is a microaggression to ask an Asian American or Latino American “Where were you born?,†because this implies that he or she is not a real American. Trigger warnings are alerts that professors are expected to issue if something in a course might cause a strong emotional response....
This new climate is slowly being institutionalized, and is affecting what can be said in the classroom, even as a basis for discussion. During the 2014–15 school year, for instance, the deans and department chairs at the 10 University of California system schools were presented by administrators at faculty leader-training sessions with examples of microaggressions. The list of offensive statements included: “America is the land of opportunity†and “I believe the most qualified person should get the job.'
The press has typically described these developments as a resurgence of political correctness. That’s partly right, although there are important differences between what’s happening now and what happened in the 1980s and ’90s.
That movement sought to restrict speech (specifically hate speech aimed at marginalized groups), but it also challenged the literary, philosophical, and historical canon, seeking to widen it by including more-diverse perspectives.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
The ultimate aim, it seems, is to turn campuses into “safe spaces†where young adults are shielded from words and ideas that make some uncomfortable. And more than the last, this movement seeks to punish anyone who interferes with that aim, even accidentally. You might call this impulse vindictive protectiveness. It is creating a culture in which everyone must think twice before speaking up, lest they face charges of insensitivity, aggression, or worse....
But vindictive protectiveness teaches students to think in a very different way. It prepares them poorly for professional life, which often demands intellectual engagement with people and ideas one might find uncongenial or wrong....
We do not mean to imply simple causation, but rates of mental illness in young adults have been rising, both on campus and off, in recent decades...
Emotional reasoning dominates many campus debates and discussions. A claim that someone’s words are “offensive†is not just an expression of one’s own subjective feeling of offendedness. It is, rather, a public charge that the speaker has done something objectively wrong. It is a demand that the speaker apologize or be punished by some authority for committing an offense...
Claims of a right not to be offended have continued to arise since then, and universities have continued to privilege them. In a particularly egregious 2008 case, for instance, Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis found a white student guilty of racial harassment for reading a book titled Notre Dame vs. the Klan. The book honored student opposition to the Ku Klux Klan when it marched on Notre Dame in 1924.
Excerpts of lengthy but revealing article (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/), though the source is not that conservative.
Other examples: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-new-intolerance-of-student-activism-at-yale/414810/
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it is ultimately the devil that is to blame. Notice the selective nature of it. Nothing offensive to Islam etc. is to be allowed in the liberal campus life (which predominates, and manifests their vision of future America) but traditional Christian beliefs and morality are far game, and even promoted. Imagine the outcry if even an ad for a "Muhammad has two mommies" was displayed on a campus bulletin board.
Thus "intolerance" is railed against while excluding tolerance of traditional Christian beliefs and morality, and opposing views on such things as Israel (being villainous), Climate Change (not novel or happening or ultimately not dangerous), and abortion and homosexual relation being wrong are censored.
This paradoxical political correctness is consistent with their basic animus against the principle of benefits being gained by the merit of work and competence, and moral obedience, and of authority being merited thereby, while imagining that they have the right to power and dictate what is right and wrong, since they are the intellectual elite. Which both war against traditional morality while imposing false guilt.
Thus the 60's student activists would take over the admin building, and later such took organized "Occupy movements" and today seek to drive out those who commit even such offenses as proposing rules on how to dress for Halloween may be wrong since it tells student what to do (which was opposed since the liberals want to avoid offending adopted client cultures, not because it promotes the Dark side). (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...tolerance-of-student-activism-at-yale/414810/)
For the goal of such liberal elites is that they alone sit in power by "climbing up some other way" than actual merit, and create an alternative society under their dictatorship. The method, as in Communism which these sympathize with, being to portray those who earned benefits and position as being oppressors, whom the liberal elites are their saviors from, despite the failed record of such. Yet as in Communism, the end of this Utopia is that of this selfish saviors oppressing all.
Of course, the first "Occupy movement" was that of the devil seeking to "climb up some other way" (cf. Is. 14; Jn. 10:1; note overcomers will sit with Christ: Rv. 3:21) since he thought he was worthy, and being cast down for his selfish presumption (note that God does not need anything, (Acts 17:25) but worship of the infinite immutable Creator is enjoined as right and to man's benefit), he next worked to seduce Eve with his "victim entitlement mentality," inferring God was her selfish insecure oppressor unjustly keeping her back from what she should have.
For the devil opposes the Divine principle of earned benefits, and disobedience being punished, and seeks glory and worship thru proxy servants preaching his message. Which is in essence of the anti-capitalist pro-socialist, anti traditional morality message of liberal elitists today, which works toward a society eventually being wholly dependent upon their government, under these proxy servants requiring the obeisance of all, even if N. Korea light.
This phony movement is being promoted by the queers and the Africans. It is about power and special rights.
Pussies.
Wankers.
ping
And Mommy and Daddy pay for it.
No. It’s about power for the “victims” of society. These people are Maoists.
And in a few years, these people will inhabit the corporate world, where they will make the same demands and achieve the same negative goals.
Imagine when these folks are in charge of HR Departments in corporations, both major and minor. Imagine when they become editors and producers at media companies.
There will be no way that American companies will be able to hire qualified people to produce quality goods.
Any jobs that haven’t already moved overseas will do so then.
We can laugh at the “hyper-sensitive snowflakes”, but they are the beginning of the end of America.
IMO, that is the bottom line and has been the principal goal of the leftist since the 60's and 70's. It really is similar to a cancer; after starting at the lowest grades where policies were easier to implement, the cancer has crept higher in the educational system.
This excellent article introduces another not so subtle feature: faced with adversity or crisis these students are being encouraged to flee to a "safe place".
Imagine the outcry if even an ad for a “Muhammad has two mommies” was displayed on a campus bulletin board.
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Under sharia Mohammad can have up to four mommies.
“A principle of moral psychology is that “morality binds and blinds.” Part of what we do when we make moral judgments is express allegiance to a team. But that can interfere with our ability to think critically.”
For the authors, morality blinds us and interferes with our ability to think critically.
I’m not absolutely sure what they mean by “think critically,” but it is only from the foundation of a properly formed conscience that it is possible to evaluate the nature and value of morality.
This is the same as Rational Emotive Therapy, developed by Albert Ellis way back in the sixties.
If you get angry because someone asks where you are from or born, then you are the aggressor, most likely the questioner was being either polite or curious or curiously polite. If you have a chip on your shoulder about where you are from or were born it is your chip, not the one kindly asking even if they are asking out of a bit of fear etc.
Correct, and after anarchy would come dictatorship, which the devil seeks in order to war against God and be worshipped by proxy.
But i was talking about 2 lesbians here.
Imagine when these folks are in charge of HR Departments in corporations, both major and minor.
It’s already there.
They have been told so much that they are no different than animals by their educators. Why are we surprised that they are acting like they are rabid little beast ?
They have been taught they are so special .
(2 Timothy 3:1) This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
(2 Timothy 3:2) For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
(2 Timothy 3:3) Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
(2 Timothy 3:4) Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
(2 Timothy 3:5) Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
“Imagine the outcry if even an ad for a “Muhammad has two mommies†was displayed on a campus bulletin board.”
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“Under sharia Mohammad can have up to four mommies.”
Yes—and they can have harems of boys. These “religions” are evil and promote the opposite ethics of Christianity-—the only rational religion in line with Natural Law Theory (Science and Logic). It is why only Christianity is banned from the public square and public schools while satanism and paganism (sodomy) is promoted— to create non-thinking ignorant, immoral drones who can only “feel” what is right and wrong. Facts can never be processed in these brainwashed, totally dehumanized bots. (Removed from Reality/Natural Family unit—common sense—and put into artificial group “think” factories for mass conformity to stupidity and slavery of the elite sodomites).
Females are a part of this, too; a neice that went away to Penn State came back for the summer filled with anti-male propaganda. A nice kid, but I couldn’t imagine what she could offer to an employer; she is morphing into a professional malcontent.
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