Saturday, February 20, 2016

Melt Down

Drinking coffee this morning, I stumble across this eye-opener about undergrads at Rutger University who were subjected to a conservative lecturer.
Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos made an appearance at Rutgers University, and his ideas and rhetoric so traumatized the delicate flowers who heard him that many of them attended a "group therapy" session afterward.
Really?  Group therapy after listening to stange new ideas?
 One student at the event told the Targum that they “broke down crying” after the event, while another reported that he felt “scared to walk around campus the next day.” According to the report, “many others” said they felt “unsafe” at the event and on campus afterwards.
Dangerous ideas have a way of shaking your world-view.  Once you're away from the insular world of academia, new ideas come at you nilly-willy, making you question your beliefs.  It's so unfair.
 Imagine, if you can, these students – attending one of the top undergrad colleges in America – going out into the world after graduating and trying to get a job.  They will devolve into a pile of Jell-O at the first sign of resistance to their spectacularly idiotic worldview.  They are not only unemployable.  They will have to be institutionalized for their own sake.  How can anyone possibly work with someone who collapses into tears when his ideology is challenged?
It reads like an Onion parody.  College, especially the undergrad years is precisely supposed to be about encountering new ideas, learn critical thinking skills, learn how to accumulate ad internalize new data and to become something we call... educated.  College is supposed to make you feel "unsafe" and to challenge your perspective on the world.

Evidently, Rutger University is failing miserably at educating young students. More's the shame.  Most of those whine-babies will be unemployable in the real world.

4 comments:

Melissa said...

The program I am currently enrolled in has a student with "extreme anxiety" who can not stand to attend class or lab with so many people. Rather than kicking Snowflake to the curb as unemployable in the future, the school accommodates Snowflake's needs (meaning no class and private lab time). Craziness!

Melissa said...

The program I am currently enrolled in has a student with "extreme anxiety" who can not stand to attend class or lab with so many people. Rather than kicking Snowflake to the curb as unemployable in the future, the school accommodates Snowflake's needs (meaning no class and private lab time). Craziness!

BobF said...

We all need to remember we are living with an ever growing population of self- proclaimed professional victims. Everything in the world hurts them to one degree or another. "Positive" is not in their playbook. Everything is negative. Owie, it hurts so. They firmly believe the world must change to accommodate them.

I don't know what we are supposed to do to "solve the problem," but I am confident that my rather hard nosed reaction would not be allowed, so I will remain far far away if possible. I'm 70 until April, so I think I'll be gone before they completely overrun the country.

Jonathan H said...

I grew up in New Jersey, where Rutgers was the college you went to if you couldn't get in elsewhere, or you couldn't afford elsewhere - I was shocked to find out it had a good reputation in other parts of the country!

As others said, I don't know what those children (and they are, regardless of age) will do after college besides work at Starbucks and live with their parents.
I'm glad that there are few of those people where I live; while there are plenty of problems around here, that isn't one of them!