The Daily Beast’s Robby Sauve brings us this story of pure Special Snowflake Syndrome, where the inmates are demanding to run the asylum
The College That Wants to Ban ‘History’
Students at Western Washington University have reached a turning point in their campus’s hxstory. (For one thing, they’re now spelling it with an ‘x’—more on that later.) Activists are demanding the creation of a new college dedicated to social justice activism, a student committee to police offensive speech, and culturally segregated living arrangements at the school, which is in Bellingham, up in the very northwest corner of the state. (snip)
WWU’s student-activist community—the frightening-sounding Assembly for Power and Liberation—made their demands public earlier this week….
One of those demands is the creation of a school that would train the Special Snowflakes to be Social Justice Warriors. They’re demanding the administration pony up they money for this, and offer no idea as to how. They figure it’s not their problem. If you think I’m kidding, read their manifesto. Furthermore, they are demanding that all those involved with “de-colonial work” be paid. The whole thing is as nutty as you’d expect.
Something stands out more, though
Activists have also demanded the creation of an Office for Social Transformation, which would employ 15 students—young Robespierres in training—for the purposes of monitoring “racist, anti-black, transphobic, cissexist, misogynistic, ableist, homophobic, Islamophobic, and otherwise oppressive behavior on campus.†(Anti-Semitism, one notes, is curiously omitted.)
Interesting. Are these Special Snowflakes admitting that they are basically horrible people? That they are racist, homophobic, sexist, etc? Why the need for this type of totalitarianism if they aren’t? WWU is an extremely liberal school in the first place in a rather liberal area. And these Special Snowflakes are, in fact, horrible people, many of whom will be smacked in the face by the dead mackerel of reality once they leave the colleges and have to enter the real world.
When I was at school here in the 70’s, they were singing the same sad, tired, lazy old tune. How special that they haven’t learned a damn thing in fifty years. Although it will never be able to overtake Evergreen as the prime generator of Bernie Babies for the state of Washington, WWSU is very good at social justice, malingering, ignoring reality, spitting in the face of the surrounding taxpayers, and sucking vast amounts of cash from the unwilling working public. They have wonderful access to vastly overpriced coffee and boutique foods, and an amazing setting in one of the prettiest places in the world. No wonder the students and professors are in a conspiracy to keep out the practical, freedom-loving, profit driven masses.
The Washington State Senate, however, is controlled by Republicans who just dumped a top-level mass transit fantasist out of her comfy nest; and the chances of them funding any of this crapola are about the same as that of Al Gore being right about Global Warming. That’s at least one cheerful thought for today!
I think that they are simply trying to be a more perfected human being
Teach have you ever heard of Mazliw’s hierarchy of needs?
More perfected human beings?
More unemployed human beings is the more probable result!
Any responsible HR department is going to take any résumé which lists such majors and throw it in the trash.
No, John, they are trying to force Everyone Else to comply with their complaints. They should start with themselves and all their racism, sexism, sexual assaults, etc, John.
Jews will be assaulted on that campus in 3,2,1….
“A committee to police offensive speech…..” You think that’s part of becoming a more “perfected human being”, comrade Johnny?