Hey, College Ninnies—Grow Up!

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City Journal:

Emory University students practically faint at the sight of Donald Trump’s name.

Heather Mac Donald

March 25, 2016

 

The president of Emory University is the latest campus leader to grovel before narcissistic, delusional students, raising the question yet again: What do seemingly adult administrators so fear in their uneducated young charges?

 

Earlier this week, several dozen Emory students barged into the school’s administration building to demand protection from “Trump 2016” slogans that had been written in chalk on campus walkways. Acting out a by-now standardized psychodrama of oppression and vulnerability, the students claimed that seeing Trump’s name on the sidewalk confirmed that they were “unsafe” at Emory. College sophomore Jonathan Peraza led the allegedly traumatized students in a chant: “You are not listening! Come speak to us, we are in pain!” (This accusation of “not listening” was a thankfully toned-down version of the shriek “Be quiet!,” screamed by a Yale student last fall at her college master during an expletive-filled tirade.) As the Emory protesters entered the administration building, they drew on the Communist Manifesto (probably the only political theory they have even heard of) to express their pitiable plight: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

 

 

 

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After initially declining, to his credit, to send a campus e-mail decrying support for the “fascist, racist” Trump, Wagner nevertheless penned a grammar-challenged missive that validated every aspect of the students’ self-pity. He told the “Emory Community” that the students “voiced their genuine concern and pain in the face of this perceived intimidation” from the Trump chalkings, and that he “cannot dismiss their expression of feelings and concern as motivated only by political preference or over-sensitivity.” Therefore, he was announcing a four-point plan to “recognize, listen to, and honor the concerns of these students.” That plan included “a formal process to institutionalize identification, review, and addressing of social justice opportunities and issues,” as well as an annual Racial Justice Retreat and better procedures for reporting and responding to bias. The university would be reviewing security videotape to identify the chalkers and submit them to the “conduct violation process,” according to the Wheel, for possible violations of regulations requiring preapproval for chalkings. (That approval may not hinge on content.)

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYpgRqVixCg

 

H/T Hot Air

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Emory alumni speak

Scott Johnson

Mar. 28 2016

 

Emory University alumnus Ed Thayer (’05C) forwards us a copy of an open letter signed by him and several other Emory alums. He writes: “This latest episode at Emory has struck a nerve with a segment of alumni and over the weekend we penned the letter below. Glenn Reynolds at InstaPundit posted the letter we wrote this morning and since you and your blog have been covering this issue very well, we would love to reach as broad an audience as possible to start combating this rot from the alumni perspective.” Here is the alumni letter:

 

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EMORY’S “DEAN OF CAMPUS LIFE” WRITES ABOUT TRUMP CHALKINGS, hilarity ensues. Even the commenters at Inside Higher Ed seem amazingly unsympathetic.


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One Of my personal favorites

News media coverage and even our own campus dialogues have largely essentialized this incident into the right to free speech versus the need for students to be more resilient in coping with an often harsh world. Some argue for the primacy of open expression at any cost, while others insist on the right to feel safe and unthreatened by certain expressions of free speech. In fact, the issues are much more complex, especially with the incident at Emory.

Q. is essentialized a word?