Yale SJWs screaming at Professor

[NrM]

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/3rucs2/yale_sjws_screaming_at_professor_yesterday/

 

 

 

2nd video

 

 

 

lol at snapping fingers instead of clapping in the 2nd video.

clapping is ableism!.

 

 

Here's the email they're so upset about...

 

Dear Sillimanders:

Nicholas and I have heard from a number of students who were frustrated by the mass email sent to the student body about appropriate Halloween­wear. I’ve always found Halloween an interesting embodiment of more general adult worries about young people. As some of you may be aware, I teach a class on “The Concept of the Problem Child,” and I was speaking with some of my students yesterday about the ways in which Halloween – traditionally a day of subversion for children and young people – is also an occasion for adults to exert their control.

When I was young, adults were freaked out by the specter of Halloween candy poisoned by lunatics, or spiked with razor blades (despite the absence of a single recorded case of such an event). Now, we’ve grown to fear the sugary candy itself. And this year, we seem afraid that college students are unable to decide how to dress themselves on Halloween. I don’t wish to trivialize genuine concerns about cultural and personal representation, and other challenges to our lived experience in a plural community. I know that many decent people have proposed guidelines on Halloween costumes from a spirit of avoiding hurt and offense. I laud those goals, in theory, as most of us do. But in practice, I wonder if we should reflect more transparently, as a community, on the consequences of an institutional (which is to say: bureaucratic and administrative) exercise of implied control over college students.

It seems to me that we can have this discussion of costumes on many levels: we can talk about complex issues of identify, free speech, cultural appropriation, and virtue “signalling.” But I wanted to share my thoughts with you from a totally different angle, as an educator concerned with the developmental stages of childhood and young adulthood.

As a former preschool teacher, for example, it is hard for me to give credence to a claim that there is something objectionably “appropriative” about a blonde­haired child’s wanting to be Mulan for a day. Pretend play is the foundation of most cognitive tasks, and it seems to me that we want to be in the business of encouraging the exercise of imagination, not constraining it. I suppose we could agree that there is a difference between fantasizing about an individual character vs. appropriating a culture, wholesale, the latter of which could be seen as (tacky)(offensive)(jejeune)(hurtful), take your pick. But, then, I wonder what is the statute of limitations on dreaming of dressing as Tiana the Frog Princess if you aren’t a black girl from New Orleans? Is it okay if you are eight, but not 18? I don’t know the answer to these questions; they seem unanswerable. Or at the least, they put us on slippery terrain that I, for one, prefer not to cross.

Which is my point. I don’t, actually, trust myself to foist my Halloweenish standards and motives on others. I can’t defend them anymore than you could defend yours. Why do we dress up on Halloween, anyway? Should we start explaining that too? I’ve always been a good mimic and I enjoy accents. I love to travel, too, and have been to every continent but Antarctica. When I lived in Bangladesh, I bought a sari because it was beautiful, even though I looked stupid in it and never wore it once. Am I fetishizing and appropriating others’ cultural experiences? Probably. But I really, really like them too. Even if we could agree on how to avoid offense – and I’ll note that no one around campus seems overly concerned about the offense taken by religiously conservative folks to skin­revealing costumes – I wonder, and I am not trying to be provocative: Is there no room anymore for a child or young person to be a little bit obnoxious… a little bit inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive? American universities were once a safe space not only for maturation but also for a certain regressive, or even transgressive, experience;increasingly, it seems, they have become places of censure and prohibition. And the censure and prohibition come from above, not from yourselves! Are we all okay with this transfer of power? Have we lost faith in young people's capacity – in your capacity ­ to exercise self­censure, through social norming, and also in your capacity to ignore or reject things that trouble you? We tend to view this shift from individual to institutional agency as a tradeoff between libertarian vs. liberal values (“liberal” in the American, not European sense of the word).

Nicholas says, if you don’t like a costume someone is wearing, look away, or tell them you are offended. Talk to each other. Free speech and the ability to tolerate offence are the hallmarks of a free and open society.

But – again, speaking as a child development specialist – I think there might be something missing in our discourse about the exercise of free speech (including how we dress ourselves) on campus, and it is this: What does this debate about Halloween costumes say about our view of young adults, of their strength and judgment?

In other words: Whose business is it to control the forms of costumes of young people? It's not mine, I know that.

Happy Halloween.

 

Edited November 7, 2015 by Poozy

[halomatt]

Solid, well-written email.  It's a shame the kids can't see the bigger issue. 

[tdawg87]

It's going to be amazing when these people graduate and come back to the real world.

 

Try telling your boss that he/she is "triggering" you.

[Adam]

I don't think you ever go back to the real world after graduating from Yale

[Glen]

This may be the longest thread title ever.

[tdawg87]

I don't think you ever go back to the real world after graduating from Yale

 

Touche.

[RallyMo]

Man, you get some nerdz upset about their video game world being all jacked up and sexist and they become crusaders.

 

Keep it up, Pooz.

[Jay]

Yale has to be asking itself who hired this guy?

[Blarg]

Sadly she is a child who now has the right to vote simply because of how long her parents kept her alive

[–]peaky****ingblinders

The comments are gold.

Edited November 7, 2015 by notti

[Blarg]

Yale has to be asking itself who hired this guy?

You should read his resume, they were lucky to get him.

[Angelsjunky]

Excellent, well thought out email that obviously went completely over the heads of the PC brigade. It is very disheartening what has happened on our college campus, with this kind of fascist groupthink.

[Blarg]

Sometimes youth needs to protest just simply to validate themselves. Often it is without any more merit than being seen and heard. Energy wasted in this case.

[NrM]

Yale has to be asking itself who hired this guy?

Graduated from Yale in 1984 and won the Russell Henry Chittenden Prize, went on to get an M.D. from Harvard and Masters in Public Health, in addition to winning the Bowdoin Prize[1] . Then got a Ph.D in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked as a physician, has been awarded tenure at the University of Chicago as a Professor of Sociology and Medicine, and has a shitload of published research. He even did a TED talk[2] .

[Blarg]

Just about any knucklehead can get on TED but he is well respected in his field.

[Blarg]

I'm going to tell you, Poozy, what I told Juan Savage yesterday. Do not post entire articles like that letter, it refuses traffic to the originator of the article. Post a small piece you feel is the conversation starter and provide a link.

Also your thread title is beyond obtuse.

[Hollyw00d]

it would be good if SJWs could rustle back into their nests made from their own pubic hair

[NrM]

I'm going to tell you, Poozy, what I told Juan Savage yesterday. Do not post entire articles like that letter, it refuses traffic to the originator of the article. Post a small piece you feel is the conversation starter and provide a link.

Also your thread title is beyond obtuse.

 

Quit harassing me!!!! If I wanted your opinion I would have asked for it!!!

You are giving me PTSD

 

chuck can you ban this ****?!

 

Seriously though.. I pulled the title and email straight off of the reddit link provided.

Edited November 7, 2015 by Poozy

[Blarg]

Yes but we expect more out of you than reddit and Yale. Keep the thread titles under control.

[Blarg]

More gold.

"I have friends who are not going to class, who are not doing their homework, who are losing sleep, who are skipping meals, and who are having breakdowns."

So this particular issue isn't affecting their normal behavior in any way? Good to know.

[UndertheHalo]

My cousin goes to Yale and we had an interesting conversation about this the other day.  In his view the uber PC knuckleheads are so aggressive that even more level headed students are afraid to speak at all for fear of incurring the wrath of the PC crowd.  Apparently even those walking near the protestors find these clowns in their faces screaming nonsense at them for not protesting along with them.  One day this girl is gonna look back on this video and feel shame.  How entitled and out of touch does one have to be to get this angry about an opinion on halloween costumes ? 

Edited November 7, 2015 by UndertheHalo

[juansavage1]

I have another, non-contradicting theory. Adults don't tell these kids that they're wrong. Why? Because they agree with them OR they want to use their energy to silence their mutual enemy.

If the administrators told them to shut up, they'd shut up.

[red321]

Halloween costume manufacturers?

[Vegas Halo Fan]

How entitled and out of touch does one have to be to get this angry about an opinion on halloween costumes ? 

 

My guess is that it starts with growing up around enough wealth to be able to attend Yale. Affluenza.

Edited November 8, 2015 by Vegas Halo Fan

[juansavage1]

The preoccupation is gender, race, and gay stuff.

They think people who disagree on these points are evil. When you feel your cause is righteous, good versus evil, any tactic is justified.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

It's when I realized the hypocrisy they those who claim to be liberal and open-minded might be even less tolerant of others views than religious right nuts. At least so in an academic setting.

 

This is the ironic thing. True liberalism is about tolerance of a lot of different viewpoints and promoting choice. I am perfectly fine with conservatives sticking to their values, so long as they don't try to impose them on me by restricting my options to only those that they want.