Published on Nov 12, 2015: Students at Claremont McKenna College in California who are demanding a racially segregated “safe space” for “marginalized identities,” silenced and embarrassed an Asian woman when she described how she had been racially harassed by an African-American man.
I will not be bulled……but I will bully others.
I will demand to be heard, but I will shout down those who don’t agree with me.
I will demand my “rights” be respected, but I will not respect the rights of others.
I will not tolerate a society that needs to use force to get it’s way, but I will call for “muscle” when I don’t get mine.
I will demand that stupid, angry people don’t form groups, yet I will form one when I need to make a point.
I will tell all about “Tolerance” and “Diversity”, but if you don’t think just like we do, say what we say and believe what we believe, you’re not welcome here.
I will point out racist actions, but I will not acknowledge my own.
I will demand everyone be treated equally, unless I don’t like that person or their point of view.
I will demand the First Amendment when I am speaking, but when you go to report on what I say, it has no bearing.
Protesters in a nutshell.
Comments to Steve Sailer:
* An asian female student tells a story about being yelled at to go back to her own country by a black man in a car. A nice white lady helps her. The protesters will have none of it and take the microphone away from her.
Also, this happened a few days ago and I’ve heard absolutely nothing about it. Some black police officers killed an unarmed 6 year old white autistic child and shot his father. There is a body camera recording that shows no justification at all for the shooting.
It’s amazing how silent the media has been about this.
* Faculties acted on their fetish for having racial tokens mixed into the student body and they lowered standards of admission to bring this about because diversity “enriched” the campus environment, even when research said otherwise:
“It is commonly believed that increases in black enrollment will produce positive assessments from students about their educational experience. But in fact the correlations went in the opposite direction. As the proportion of black students rose, student satisfaction with their university experience dropped, as did their assessments of the quality of their education and the work ethic of their peers. In addition, the higher the enrollment diversity, the more likely students were to say that they personally experienced discrimination. The same pattern of negative correlations between educational benefits and increased black enrollment appeared in the responses of faculty and administrators. Both groups perceived decreases in educational quality and academic preparation as the number of black students increased. Faculty members also rated students as less hard-working as diversity increased. . . . .
The regression analysis showed that, even after controlling for these demographic, academic, and institutional factors, enrollment diversity still contributed significantly to students’ evaluations of college life. Once again, the greater the school’s diversity, the less students were satisfied with their own educational experience. In addition, greater diversity was associated with perceptions of less academic effort among students and a poorer overall educational experience. Finally, enrollment diversity was positively related to students’ experience of unfair treatment, even after the effects of all other variables were controlled. (As the proportion of black students grew, the incidence of these personal grievances increased among whites. Among blacks, however, there was no significant correlation. Thus diversity appears to increase complaints of unfair treatment among white students without reducing them among black students.)”
The “reality based community”, indeed. It’s pleasing to see liberal faculty getting what they wanted, good and hard. Reading comprehension? Why let that get in the way of social justice bloodlust?
* I was at a meeting of other middle-aged people and the speaker handed out a government form we had to complete. There was a question, “Which gender were you assigned at birth” followed by, “As which gender do you currently identify?”
There was some muttering among the group and the speaker laughed and said, “Hey, don’t look at me, I don’t write this stuff, I just have to turn it in.”
It occurred to me that if he made as mild a joke as that on a college campus he’d lose his job.
* I’ve spent decades waiting for the day when it finally dawns on leftists and bible thumping colorblind conservatives that “racist” doesn’t mean someone who hates people of another race and wishes them harm; “racist” simply means “white person.”
I think it’s finally starting to sink in. And it’s too late for them to do a thing about it.
* ¿Cheb? responds to the Mizzou resignations:
Jeb Bush told reporters Thursday after a town hall event in Grand Rapids, Michigan that he hadn’t kept up with the situation because he’s “been pretty busy.”
“As I understand it, (former President Tim Wolfe) didn’t respond to legitimate concerns of acts of racism on campus, and may have missed an opportunity to try and heal the wounds and give people the sense that the university had no tolerance for that,” Bush said. “I don’t know, I haven’t followed it that carefully so I can’t say if his resignation was appropriate or not.”
Trump responds as well:
“I think it’s just disgusting. I think the two people who resigned are weak, ineffective people,” Donald Trump said on Fox News Thursday morning. “When they resigned, they set something in motion that’s going to be a disaster for the next long period of time.”
Trump also called the protestors’ demands for change “crazy.”
“Many of those things are like crazy,” he said.
* I am alumnus of CMC (mid 90′s.) I have just written my alumni office to cancel my annual giving, indefinitely.
I have watched over the years as one of the finest private academic institutions in the world has eagerly descended into the rabbit hole of diversity and equality. Once a relative bastion of independent academic innovation, free-thinking, and unadulterated liberal-arts, CMC has become just one more outpost overrun by the invasive tendrils of unprincipled, divisive identity politics.
CMC is rapidly devolving into an expensive kindergarten for the perpetually aggrieved, the coddled, the emotionally and socially stunted elites; detached from the very ideals, virtues, and shared values that brought the idea of CMC to life.
It was these shared beliefs, grounded in American culture, that forged a college that would attract and educate future leaders in business, government, and community. The idea of CMC, borne from a tight-knit community of men who understood the purpose of academia was to prepare one for a thoughtful and productive life, no matter the pursuit, was both progressive and classical in its approach; a rigorous liberal arts curriculum, anchored in deep theory but also tested in practical real-world applications and experiences. It truly was a place where leaders, the stewards of truth and wisdom, could begin their journey.
This worked quite well, resulting in a college that rose from obscurity in the orange groves of southern California in 1946 to become a top-10 college, rivaling the storied ivies of the east and the giant research universities of the west. All with an enrollment of a mere 900 (now closer to 1,200) students.
The concrete bunkers and utilitarian stucco facade lining the quad of this learned place mirrored the hardscrabble, salt-of-the-earth men (and women after 1976) who embodied the ideals and values instilled by American culture, American enterprise, and American ingenuity. It was a no-frills place of learning for the bootstrap men.
The rise – and what I see as fall, of CMC is a sad microcosm of the rise and fall of a culture in this short span of modernity. This college, born in the manifest glow of American greatness, opportunism, and opportunity immediately following WWII, was specifically aimed to educate the returning soldiers, those who would become the Greatest Generation; to set them onto the landscape prepared for the unknown, armed with the gratitude, self-determination, and humility that accompanied a time when sacrifice was expected, hard work was the solution, and personal responsibility was implied.
And upon this same landscape we now have children occupying wi-fi lit modern glass houses, with character just as fragile, demanding some contrived, unnatural states of being, culled from the ether by a destructive force, some orobus of cultural suicide, to grant them relief from the imagined demons that could only exist in a time of great decadence and privilege.
As they throw those stones, plucked from the path they plod upon, they are undoing what generations before them have laid with great sacrifice and care. They are ill, but what they seek will only make them sicker.
This should be a great shame, a national shame, but instead it is celebrated as achievement, as empowerment, and the adults who invited this disease can only double-down and prostrate themselves before the false gods. Give the kids their candy.
Apparently, in a college that prides itself on making leaders, there are no more leaders with the mettle to stand before the Goliath with the sling and stone of truth and honor. There are no finer examples of weaponized privilege than those who would desire to destroy the very institutions that have given them their zero-sum seat at the table.
A brave new world is upon us.
* I wonder when we will start to see anti-immigration graffiti start springing up. I know this is typically a leftist thing to do – poor impulse control, aggression against established order and authority, etc. Google “political graffiti”. 99% leftist. But in much the same way that commenting on blogs is a way of shifting the Overton window in a mostly anonymous fashion, graffiti has the potential to do the same thing anonymously on a very local level. Is it effective? I don’t know. But I wonder why that sort of thing is not seen in an area where there are negative effects from immigration on lower SES or middle class types.
