Donnadogsoth Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 How political correctness rules in America’s student 'safe spaces’http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/12022041/How-political-correctness-rules-in-Americas-student-safe-spaces.htmlThe femiblob, which I've talked about elsewhere, is like an amoeba. The nucleus is the oligarchy, which is motivated primarily by greed for power, and which works to arrange or exploit the activities of the protoplasm, which is motivated by vengeance. It may be malicious vengeance as in the case of black criminals or Islam, but it may also be suicidal as in the case of self-hating whites. Of course the latter can be malicious and the former can self-hate, but those are the generalities. This article talks about the latest extension of the political correctness pseudopod into our Universities. Now, the only purpose of political correctness is to silence wikkum—white, hetero, Christian males and their allies. Political correctness is discursive duct tape, designed to shut us up, shut us down, so we can be marginalised and erased. Specifically, here, the trend on University campuses is to encourage the use of the phrase “I'm triggering!” as an excuse for a person, putatively at University to gain knowedge, putatively rational, putatively a young grown-up, to avoid listening to anything he or she has decided is “too much” and “traumatising” to him or her. The relevant phrase might be, “deaf and dumb.” But we can't take this as merely collegial silliness. This is the Tentacle coming through the Universities, into the workplace, into the home. Just as the Street, full of banter and free interaction, degraded to the semi-free space called the Mall, and then to the political lockdown known as a Box Store, so are “safe spaces” set to expand, first to envelope all Universities, then government and public spaces, and neighbourhoods, and then where you work, and then where you live, as your own children, raised on K-to-U public education, including television and Internet, will begin schooling and policing you. And, soon after that, the laws will change to make “triggering” your child illegal. More parents off to the prisons and more children off to the foster homes. Where does “triggering” come from? I won't answer that here but I will answer what it is: It's infantile narcissism made policy. It appeals to the youth who hate their parents and all they stand for, and see this “wave” of anti-parent, anti-civilisation ideology—communist, anarcho-communist, political correctness, multiculturalism, diversity, sexual racism, white-shaming, all of it—they see the femiblob rolling along like Godzilla absorbing the (Western) world piecemeal, and they feel a thrill at the prospect of rolling along with it. “Safe spaces” as a way of annihilating a small piece of their University, provides that thrill. “I'm triggering!” is the psycho-political equivalent of “I'm orgasming!” 1
shirgall Posted November 30, 2015 Posted November 30, 2015 This is, of course, a complete failure of the US educational system, which is supposed to produce happy, productive citizens eager to contribute to furthering American values and traditions. Or did I read the wrong pamphlet? Could be too much Fallout 4.
FireMinstrel Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 This is, of course, a complete failure of the US educational system, which is supposed to produce happy, productive citizens eager to contribute to furthering American values and traditions. I don't think it was ever supposed to do any of that. Our educational system was based off of the Prussian school system, which was designed to produce obedient soldiers and citizens. I want to weep for the next generation. Seeing little kids glued to tablets while the family is out for dinner...well, that doesn't help. Future media zombies who will buy into all this "special snowflake/trigger warning/self-hating first-worlder" garbage. 2
Donnadogsoth Posted December 1, 2015 Author Posted December 1, 2015 I don't think it was ever supposed to do any of that. Our educational system was based off of the Prussian school system, which was designed to produce obedient soldiers and citizens. I want to weep for the next generation. Seeing little kids glued to tablets while the family is out for dinner...well, that doesn't help. Future media zombies who will buy into all this "special snowflake/trigger warning/self-hating first-worlder" garbage. I empathise, FireMinstrel. Is there an age at which we write a media zombie off as a lost cause, and worry only about the generation to come after that?
Jer Posted December 8, 2015 Posted December 8, 2015 I don't think it was ever supposed to do any of that. Our educational system was based off of the Prussian school system, which was designed to produce obedient soldiers and citizens. I want to weep for the next generation. Seeing little kids glued to tablets while the family is out for dinner...well, that doesn't help. Future media zombies who will buy into all this "special snowflake/trigger warning/self-hating first-worlder" garbage. Aye, I found the School Sucks Podcast very enlightening on the origins of public schooling and would recommend it to any current or future parent not familiar with the history of the Prussian school system. this is an excerpt from John Taylor Gatto's book, The Underground History of American Education. One of my favorite videos to share.
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