We have all seen the surveys showing that “college” graduates do not know when the Civil War took place, where Afghanistan might be, and cannot find the Pacific Ocean on a map of the Hawaiian Islands. For most students, most education is a farce, a waste of time and money.
Category: Education: “Higher” Ed
The unintentionally funny anguish of a distraught feminist Hillary voter
It was clearly unintended when a young feminist’s anguished existential howl about Hillary’s loss reduced me to helpless laughter.
I found that feminist’s problem: Ivy League.
“I have always been both a strong woman and a good girl. I got straight A’s. I was class president. I went to an Ivy League school and even gave the commencement address, just like Hillary.”
Source: The unintentionally funny anguish of a distraught feminist Hillary voter
Ace of Spades HQ
Cognitive behavioral therapy tries to teach people to short-circuit/disrupt/desensitize that triggering circumstance until it no longer triggers them (or at least triggers them less) and thus they keep the cascade of bad brain chemicals from gushing too much.
Lukianov’s amazing insight was that just as cognitive behavioral techniques could be used to desensitize someone to an emotional trigger, so could an evil form of the techniques be used to hypersenisitize someone to an emotional trigger.
What you’re seeing on college campuses, on social media, and in society generally is the triumph of these evil forms of malevolent cognitive behavioral conditioning to encourage people not to keep their wits about them and stand strong in the face of adversity, but to collapse into a twitchy puddle of panic and mental disarray if they so much as see a word they don’t like.
And thus colleges which once produced some of the boys who stormed Normandy are now producing Adult Babies who need Play-Doh recovery rooms if they hear that American Sniper is being screened at the rec center.
Source: Ace of Spades HQ
How Trigger Warnings Are Hurting Mental Health on Campus – The Atlantic
Childhood itself has changed greatly during the past generation. Many Baby Boomers and Gen Xers can remember riding their bicycles around their hometowns, unchaperoned by adults, by the time they were 8 or 9 years old. In the hours after school, kids were expected to occupy themselves, getting into minor scrapes and learning from their experiences. But “free range” childhood became less common in the 1980s.
Source: How Trigger Warnings Are Hurting Mental Health on Campus – The Atlantic
This is the NEA’s fault
The NEA needs to be abolished.
Articles: A Blizzard of Snowflakes
If you’re like me, you’re probably puzzled by this childish display and horrified to think that these people are allowed to vote. But the last line in the above quote might be the true reason for this “Recess” — that is, it’s to drum up business for the counseling infrastructure that is growing like topsy at colleges and universities across the nation.
Blog: College offers round-the-clock counseling for students ‘troubled’ by Halloween costumes
What are these infants doing in college?
The University of Florida wants students to know that if they’re offended or scared by Halloween, there’s counselors on hand to walk them through the traumatic experience.
Source: Blog: College offers round-the-clock counseling for students ‘troubled’ by Halloween costumes
Mao Was Right | The Z Blog
This is the case with the Atlantic Coast Conference announcing that they will be pulling their sportsball tournaments out of the state of North Carolina in protest of the state law banning deranged men in sundresses from stalking women in public toilets. For those unfamiliar with American college sports, our colleges run billion dollar sports leagues for some reason.
Source: Mao Was Right | The Z Blog
Blog: College professor stops teaching about sexual violence because too many students ‘triggered’
There is no right not to be offended.
Source: Blog: College professor stops teaching about sexual violence because too many students ‘triggered’
Generation Meathead | The Z Blog
Filmmaker, actor and outspoken Donald Trump detractor Rob Reiner says it is impossible to level with the Republican presidential nominee’s bigoted supporters, who are “mostly white males who don’t have college degrees.”
Translation: They haven’t been properly indoctrinated in the sewer that is what passes for Leftist ‘thought’.
Source: Generation Meathead | The Z Blog