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University of California — sick, sick, sick [Darleen Click]

Not only is someone with an ISIS flag condemning America met with indifference – but the anti-Israel (and anti-Semitic) comments that start almost immediately when the Israeli flag is displayed are alarming.

Also, it appears that smoking a cigarette is more threatening than the ISIS flag.

Also — the UC system enforcing ideological “purity” on whim and allegations as if it were run by Iranian Imams.

The Microaggression Farce

In November 2013, two dozen graduate students at the University of California at Los Angeles marched into an education class and announced a protest against its “hostile and unsafe climate for Scholars of Color.” The students had been victimized, they claimed, by racial “microaggression”—the hottest concept on campuses today, used to call out racism otherwise invisible to the naked eye. UCLA’s response to the sit-in was a travesty of justice. The education school sacrificed the reputation of a beloved and respected professor in order to placate a group of ignorant students making a specious charge of racism.

The pattern would repeat itself twice more at UCLA that fall: students would allege that they were victimized by racism, and the administration, rather than correcting the students’ misapprehension, penitently acceded to it. Colleges across the country behave no differently. As student claims of racial and gender mistreatment grow ever more unmoored from reality, campus grown-ups have abdicated their responsibility to cultivate an adult sense of perspective and common sense in their students. Instead, they are creating what tort law calls “eggshell plaintiffs”—preternaturally fragile individuals injured by the slightest collisions with life. The consequences will affect us for years to come.

8 Replies to “University of California — sick, sick, sick [Darleen Click]”

  1. LBascom says:

    “eggshell plaintiffs”

    RACIST!!

    The consequences will affect us for years to come.

    Actually, this is the consequence of the “good self esteem” movement of a generation ago, just starting to rear its lavishly entitled head.

  2. dicentra says:

    as if it were run by Iranian Imams

    Follow the money. Guess where lots of the donations trace back.

  3. RI Red says:

    I’m thinking that it’s child abuse to send a kid to public schools or college.

  4. McGehee says:

    The most satisfying response to an accusation of microaggression, it seems to me, is obvious.

  5. anchovy says:

    Seldom have I seen individuals that would benefit more from 8 weeks in the loving care of a Marine drill instructor.

  6. serr8d says:

    After each of these debates, the self-professed “students of color” exchanged e-mails about their treatment by the class’s “whites.” (Asians are not considered “persons of color” on college campuses, presumably because they are academically successful.)

    So the new “Original Sin” is being born white and/or intelligent? There’s no forgiveness for it, no matter how many sacrifices and charbroiled-professor-offerings are placed at the feet of these modern-day Demigods of Color?

    Microaggressions. They should pray they stay that way.

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  8. cranky-d says:

    The most satisfying response to an accusation of microaggression, it seems to me, is obvious.

    I’m thinking a punch in the nose, if possible.

    So, macroagression?

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