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Millennial snowflakes: ALL colleges should be “safe spaces”

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Millennial SnowflakesRight.  Because Life is just like that — one big Safe Space.

I mean, I was stupid in college.  I was voting Demorat.

But for fuck’s sake, I wasn’t that stupid.

I was taking a full college load and working for four radio stations, was Photo Editor for the college newspaper, woke up at 5 AM and went to bed at 10 or 11 PM.  I paid my tuition, had to buy my own used car in order to get to work.

At my peak I had six jobs, four at radio stations, one at a newspaper, one at the college.  Plus my classes.  I never had a moment to consider protests or safe spaces or microaggressions.  I was too busy worrying about how I would pay for my textbooks.

So I bought used textbooks and then learned: they were already highlighted with the salient points.  They wouldn’t be salient points if they weren’t highlighted, right?

And that’s how I passed college.  Only a portion of my weekends were free.

From HeatSt.com:

Student Snowflakes: ALL Universities Should Be Safe Spaces

by Kieran Corcoran

University students are crying out to be swaddled in the cotton wool of trigger warnings and safe spaces, a worrying new survey has found.

Fragile youths also said they love no-platform policies, newspaper bans and knocking down statues to shelter them from controversial or unpleasant ideas.

The sky-high levels of support for thought-policing emerged from a survey of just over 1,000 students in the UK.

How sad is that?

Its findings are also likely to be broadly applicable in the US, where safe space culture originated.

48% of all students surveyed agreed that all universities should have safe space policies to police debate, with only 20% opposing the idea. Women favored safe spaces by a considerable margin.

Women.  Imagine that.  The most emotive and most coddled sex extant — except for trannies, cross-dressers and the rest of the 31 flavors.

The survey, conducted by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) also showed that students are terrified of being triggered, with 68% backing their use.

Such policies are already having absurd results. A student in Edinburgh was almost ejected from a debate for raising her hand in violation of the safe space policy.

And trigger warning culture has permeated as far as Oxford University law lectures – which students have the option to skip if they find the crimes up for discussion “distressing”.

The crimes discussed in a text book are “distressing.”  Such petunias, you are.

Confusingly, the survey found most students pay lip service to free speech – with 60% agreeing universities “should never” limit it.

But in practice many of them turned on a dime to support censorious policies in practice.

NEVER trust Millennials when it comes to their support for our foundational documents.  I am convinced they 1) are not even remotely familiar with the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and 2) frighteningly willing to shed those rights with which they are unfamiliar.

The rights that so many Americans have died for.

NEVER.  TRUST.  MILLENNIALS.

They are “educated.”

But they have not learned.

BZ

P.S.

You want to read a great article about so-called “safe spaces”?  Click on this to read Camille Paglia’s article.  You might think that Paglia is a right winger.  Uh, no.  Full transcript is here.

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Drawing the entitlement line: Bernadette, can you hear me?

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It’s time to speak and write frankly.  Some of you may not like it.  I couldn’t care less.

There are limits to welfare, people are commencing to realize.  There are limits to benefits and entitlements.  And these limitations are starting to concern those competing for same, against illegal aliens.  Plain and simple.  Lawful citizens vs illegals.

Because some people may actually be starting to realize that The American Taxpayer has fiscal limits.

A Houston woman, Bernadette Lancelin, makes various points.

Question: are her points valid?

Watch the video:

I chose the longer video to display, which was edited for language.  Sheila Jackson Lee then gets involved therein with little enlightenment.  As far as she’s concerned, this isn’t an issue.

Lollipops and Leftist stupidity evidently solve everything.

Here is an expanded version of Lancelin’s cut, where she says what she means:

Does she have a point?

I believe she does.

“What about the kids here? In our neighborhood? Not just in this neighborhood but in our country.  All these kids? Really? Why can’t they go back?”

“I’m sorry that their parents are in poor living conditions or surroundings or whatever’s going on out there. I don’t care.  I care about what’s going on right here in my own back yard, my neighborhood.”

“Am I the only one in this community that’s out here that watches the news this morning? Oh, my god! I feel alone right now this this, and I’m very saddened by it.”

Get prepared, Bernadette.  I’m about to answer your question, and you won’t like it.

First: your concerns are by any Leftist’s standards incredibly racist.

However, you won’t get called on them because you are 1) black, and 2) female.  You hold the BF Exemptive Card.  Temporarily.

BZ-10-Year-BloggiversaryAs I’ve written for ten years now: demography is prophecy.  And the demographics don’t support you, Bernardette.  Because blacks are not procreating as rapidly as Mexicans and Central Americans.

They are bringing their women and their wombs into the United States, and having babies by the truckload.  Completely and purposely unimpeded by the current sitting US Government.

These truckloads are potential voters.  Their parents will be the current demanders for Free Cheese and their children will continue this demand into the next generation.  Ably abetted and supported by Leftists and Demorats.

Those people who want Free Cheese will continue to vote for Free Cheese and that means Demorats stay in power in perpetuity.

Caucasoids and blacks are too interested in abortions.  Their numbers are falling, not rising as contrasted with Mexicans and, now, Central Americans.

Your Rights End Where My Feelings BeginCaucasoids are interested in which iPhone is out now; which PlayStation has the best reviews, and which social media site is the newest and coolest.  They want to wear their dreadlocks and sport their tattoos and revile their so-called privilege via instructed guilt.  They are the T-ball Esteem Generation writ large, raised and monitored by Helicopter Parents.  Given a T-ball because their parents expected so much less of them.  Because just by existing they were so inherently stellar.

They want to be squeezed into mini-apartments in the center of a city with mass transportation, no individual cars, and Big Brother watching over them.  They are more than willing to eschew freedom for the allure of more and more Free Cheese.  So that they can “be themselves.”  But “themselves” involve “selfies” because, after all, “it’s all about them.”  Just as Obama’s NPD.

Big-Brother-BWCaucasoids the world over are dying out.  And possibly rightly so.  They are more than willing to trade freedom for security and — more importantly — security for a “cradle-to-grave” pablum blanket.  As long as they have their trinkets and their toys they’re just “fine with it.”  And as long as they accept Multi-Kulti.

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

-Benjamin Franklin, 1755

[Note to Millennials: I am staying in my job, at my advanced age, to make sure that I piss you off with this Truism: just one of me, in my generation, makes about 2.5 of you, because you are such pussified Navel-Gazing Fucktards.  Sorry for the F-word.  But not really.  They pay me not for what I do, but what I know.  I am a Peter Drucker “knowledge worker.”]

Millennials have little if any care about our foundational documents regarding the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers.  They have no idea who Bastiat or Hegel or Ayers or Churchill or Reagan or Hitler may be.  But they know that Germany just beat Brazil in soccur.

The misspelling is purposeful.  Soccur is for pussies who embrace aerobics whilst they falsely writhe and twist on the ground for theatrics.

Still with me, Bernadette?

Good.

Because here’s the truth: you and your kind — blacks — matter in a minimal fashion day by day.  You don’t have enough kids which means you don’t kick out a sufficient number of potential Demorat voters.  Mexicans and — now — Central Americans simply have you beat.

Sorry girl.

Complain to La Raza and/or MEChA.  And you’d better click on each link.  What is the literal translation of La Raza, by the way?  Oh yes: “The Race.”

Nothing racist there, eh wot?  Nah.  Move along.

The demographics are finally catching up.  Move over for the New Boss, same as the Old Boss.

BZ

 

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Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For:

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Free CheeseYou NEED to be guaranteed some basic and fundamental rights.  They include:

From RollingStone.com:

Guaranteed jobs, universal basic incomes, public finance and more

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Millennials have been especially hard-hit by the downturn, which is probably why so many people in this generation (like myself) regard capitalism with a level of suspicion that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. But that egalitarian impulse isn’t often accompanied by concrete proposals about how to get out of this catastrophe. Here are a few things we might want to start fighting for, pronto, if we want to grow old in a just, fair society, rather than the economic hellhole our parents have handed us.

That’s odd.  When I stepped into the work arena at the age of 14, I didn’t think of my work atmosphere as the “hellhole our parents have handed us.”

I simply thought it would be cool to throw papers from my bicycle early in the morning whilst it was dark.  And make up to $50 a month which was, then, unheard-of.

I subsequently made an amazing discovery: I had to have a sturdy bicycle in the first place, and then I had to have a big bag suspended on my handlebars and, if I could support it, bags suspended off the rear tire if I had a rear rack.  Which I did.  I could carry a lot of papers.

Not only that, but I had to get up at the UnGodly Hour of 4 am in order to receive the papers at the end of my driveway.  Unbanded.  They got thumped down in a huge vertical stack and I had to fold them into thirds and then rubber band them.  Each and every one of those things.

The faster I got my job done, the earlier I could go home.  And the closer to the porch and the front door I threw them, the fewer complaints I received.  Actually got a few tips.

Then there were “collections.”  I would have to knock on the door of the neighborhood alcoholic, the neighborhood recluse, the neighborhood wife, and say “Collecting for The Bee.”  Sometimes they paid, sometimes they put me off.  It was a continual struggle.  But if I wanted to get paid, I had to persevere.

And that’s when I learned about the “Work-to-Success” ratio.

If I applied myself, I could kick out collections in a few days.  There were some people who didn’t want to pay and were deadbeats.  McClatchy went after them in other ways that I didn’t understand then.  I can remember, for whatever reason, the first time I was called “sonny.”  As in: “Sonny, I don’t have your cash.”  Oddly enough, the more papers I accepted, and the more papers I took on my bike, the more money I made.  That became pretty clear.  That’s how I learned to work.  That’s how I learned to make money.  That’s how I learned to have any kind of work ethic whatsoever.

That said, what are your “economic reforms,” Mr Myerson?

1. Guaranteed Work for Everybody

Unemployment blows. The easiest and most direct solution is for the government to guarantee that everyone who wants to contribute productively to society is able to earn a decent living in the public sector. There are millions of people who want to work, and there’s tons of work that needs doing – it’s a no-brainer. And this idea isn’t as radical as it might sound: It’s similar to what the federal Works Progress Administration made possible during Roosevelt’s New Deal, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. vocally supported a public-sector job guarantee in the 1960s.

Right.  Guaranteed work for everybody.  Just like McDonalds.  Or WalMart.  That’s work.  But those jobs don’t guarantee full work hours or full benefits or Apprentice or Journeyman or Master wages.

Because in order to earn those wages, one must display the skill of an Apprentice, then the skill of a Journeyman, then the ultimate skill of a Master.  Because everyone knows that the fry cook at Mickey D’s is just as valuable as a brain surgeon or a rocket scientist.

2. Social Security for All

But let’s think even bigger. Because as much as unemployment blows, so do jobs. What if people didn’t have to work to survive? Enter the jaw-droppingly simple idea of a universal basic income, in which the government would just add a sum sufficient for subsistence to everyone’s bank account every month. A proposal along these lines has been gaining traction in Switzerland, and it’s starting to get a lot of attention here, too.

Right.  Paid not to work.  Sounds like the current definition of Generational Welfare, does it not?  Better yet:

Put another way: A universal basic income, combined with a job guarantee and other social programs, could make participation in the labor force truly voluntary, thereby enabling people to get a life.

Perfect.  Hot and cold running free everything.  No one works.  Everybody can surf and play drums.

3. Take Back The Land

Ever noticed how much landlords blow? They don’t really do anything to earn their money. They just claim ownership of buildings and charge people who actually work for a living the majority of our incomes for the privilege of staying in boxes that these owners often didn’t build and rarely if ever improve. In a few years, my landlord will probably sell my building to another landlord and make off with the appreciated value of the land s/he also claims to own – which won’t even get taxed, as long as s/he ploughs it right back into more real estate.

Think about how stupid that is. The value of the land has nothing to do with my idle, remote landlord; it reflects the nearby parks and subways and shops, which I have access to thanks to the community and the public. So why don’t the community and the public derive the value and put it toward uses that benefit everyone? Because capitalism, is why.

Yes, Mr Myerson, just have your building owner turn it over to you.  I’m sure you’d be willing to pitch right in and lubricate elevator cables, do maintenance, paints walls, and other mundane tasks.  Uh, no.  You said you want a “life.”  You’d instead be out surfing and beating drums.

4. Make Everything Owned by Everybody

Hoarders blow. Take, for instance, the infamous one percent, whose ownership of the capital stock of this country leads to such horrific inequality. “Capital stock” refers to two things here: the buildings and equipment that workers use to produce goods and services, and the stocks and bonds that represent ownership over the former. The top 10 percent’s ownership of the means of production is represented by the fact that they control 80 percent of all financial assets.

A Perfect Utopia.  No ownership.  No Capitalism.  People can leave their trash where it sits and no one is forced to clean it up.  Property, buildings, forests, infrastructure, power generation stations, energy distribution, it can all be “owned” by the people.  But if the people surf and beat drums, who really takes care of anything at all?  This is the perfect incentive for no incentive.

5. A Public Bank in Every State

You know what else really blows? Wall Street. The whole point of a finance sector is supposed to be collecting the surplus that the whole economy has worked to produce, and channeling that surplus wealth toward its most socially valuable uses. It is difficult to overstate how completely awful our finance sector has been at accomplishing that basic goal. Let’s try to change that by allowing state governments into the banking game.

But here’s what I find interesting: Myerson’s “Five Economic Reforms” was written in the Perfect Isolation of a Capitalistic Society where his trash gets dumped, the markets have perfect produce by way of a transportation system that is technologically the best, coordinated, working on the thinnest of margins and effective like no other nation.  And all the other aspects of a society that is not rife and corrupt with Socialism and Communism — where the striations of rich and poor are even more marked than Capitalistic nations.

Every Socialist thinks that they can “do” Socialism better than the last guy.  But Socialism just doesn’t work.  Never has, never will.  There’s a little niggling thing called “history” which indicates so.

This guy’s article hearkens me to a line from Monty Python (to be read in your best British accent):  “You’re a looney.”

And so it goes.  A little Kurt Vonnegut, there.

BZ

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