Snowflakes Are Useful Idiots: Recommended Reading List #1

In my earlier "Snowflakes Are Useful Idiots -- And Doomed" article, I included a reference list of stories intended to illustrate the width and breadth of the problem.

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The list of articles quickly overwhelmed the primary article itself (yes, America, Marxist indoctrination of your children IS a huge problem), so I decided to create weekly updates just to keep up. This is the first, but certainly not the last. My frustration with Steemit's markup code led me to throw my arms in the air and give up, hence the lack of blockquotes, italics, or color.

• AllaPundit. Wellesley student editorial: “Hostility may be warranted” towards those who embrace “hate speech” after reeducation
In fairness, despite all of the attention being paid online today to this fascist anti-fascist excrescence (the paper’s server is overwhelmed with traffic as I write this), there’s nothing in it that you wouldn’t hear on any other campus or in any other campus’s faculty lounge. It’s distinguished by two things, one being the surprisingly poor quality of the writing. Normally when you’re claiming the intellectual authority to reeducate the unwashed and, if need be, to ostracize the unrepentant among them, you proofread your copy to make sure clanging phrases like “We have all said problematic claims” have been safely excised beforehand.
The other distinction is that tirades about “hate speech” usually don’t come with overt threats of “hostility” towards the infidels. They should, since that’s how this nonsense plays out in practice, as Charles Murray could tell you. But there’s still enough of a veneer of intellectualism in apologias for this sort of thought-policing that consequences for the nonconformists are usually merely implied, not recommended.
• Bannister, Craig. 'Communism for Kids' Fails to Make Amazon.com Top 100 Rankings
Scathing customer reviews give the book a rating of only 1.7 out of 5 stars, with comments noting communism has killed "over 60 million people” and asking, “If Communism is so great why are they selling the book. Isn’t that capitalism?”
• Goins-Phillips, Tré. Clemson University: Expecting people to show up on time is racist
Does your employer expect you to show up to work on time? If so, he or she might be racist. That is, according to the “inclusion awareness course” at South Carolina’s Clemson University.
The state-funded college purchased online training curriculum that suggests as much, Campus Reform reported earlier this week. The training asserts that time is up for debate. In other words, 9 a.m. apparently doesn’t bear the same meaning for every person.
• Goldenberg, Ashley Rae. Gay Student Group Fears Chick-fil-A Threatens ‘Safe Place’
  Martini, who currently serves on the executive board of Lambda, told the Duke, “Chick-fil-A has a questionable history on civil rights and human rights.”
  “I think it’s imperative the university chooses to do business with organizations that coincide with the [university’s] mission and expectations they give students regarding diversity and inclusion," Martini added.
  The president of Lambda, Rachel Coury, said the inclusion of a Chick-fil-A on campus would threaten student safety.

• Kerwick, Jack. Aided and abetted: Student Brown Shirts and their Administrators
The disruptors were not interested in dialogue, for they were either unwilling to so much as understand Mac Donald’s comments or incapable of doing so. Instead, they shouted such pearls of wisdom as: “I don’t trust your numbers!” “Bullshit!” “What about white terrorism?” “You have no right to speak!”
Mac Donald’s “Blue Lives Matter” speech fared much worse at Claremont McKenna College, where some 250 Black Lives Matter thugs practically shut down the event. To repeat, these were not “protesters” or “demonstrators.” They were thugs. What else should we call people who banged on windows; hurled obscenities; shouted, “Shut it down!”; prevented those who were interested in hearing Mac
• Knighton, Tom. University of Minnesota Dorm Posts 'White Privilege Checklist'
When someone discussing any issue related to the politics of identity is told to "check his privilege," that's not dialogue. It's an explicit statement that a person has nothing to say worth hearing because of his DNA.
Imagine what it must be like for students at the University of Minnesota who discovered a checklist in their dorm informing them how vital it is that they shut up...
• McLeod, Judy. ‘Fake Fear’ on university campuses as big a threat to civil society as ‘Fake News’
  Parents with children who study at the Catholic missioned University of Notre Dame need to ask themselves: ‘What is Notre Dame teaching my child?’
  Senior students at the university say the presence of Vice President Mike Pence during this year’s May 21st Commencement Ceremony will make them—“feel unsafe”.
  Shouldn’t their parents be asking: “Who taught these students to fear the vice president of the United States of America?”

• Moran, Rick. Student rep resigns; cites 'hostile environment' of white males

A representative for the Hamilton College student assembly has resigned citing a "hostile environment" created by the 11 white males who are part of the 30 student governing body.
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Where does this kind of hysterical, exaggerated overreaction come from? I think it's safe to say that little girls like this have been socialized from birth to fear white males and its been made worse by an atmosphere on campus that coddles and encourages this worldview.
• Morrissey, Ed. Of course: Notre Dame students now claim Pence speech makes them “feel unsafe”
If a speech by Mike Pence truly makes you feel unsafe rather than just annoyed by hearing political opposition to your own positions, then you should really consider a lifetime of crayons rather than pencils, and padded rooms to boot. The obvious solution to that situation is.. don’t attend the speech. If one argues that the public square and political discourse should be limited to each individual’s perception of “safety,” then they’re arguing against all political discourse — and the very protests they are carrying out now.
• Michta, Andrew A. The Deconstruction of the West
Today, in the wake of decades of group identity politics and the attendant deconstruction of our heritage through academia, the media, and popular culture, this conviction in the uniqueness of the West is only a pale shadow of what it was a mere half century ago. It has been replaced by elite narratives substituting shame for pride and indifference to one’s own heritage for patriotism. After decades of Gramsci’s proverbial “long march” through the educational and cultural institutions, Western societies have been changed in ways that make social mobilization around the shared idea of a nation increasingly problematic.
• Phippen, Thomas. It’s ‘problematic, disrespectful and low-key racist’ for McDonald’s to bring back Szechuan sauce
  Just asking McDonald’s to bring back the sauce is “low-key racist,” Tayag said in a tweet.

• Russell, Nicole. Millennials' views on communism: All the proof you need on education system's abject failure
Call it the latest in proof positive some Millennials are hell-bent on being ignorant and brash, but they did all they could to live up to their poor reputation earlier in March. A group of Millennials denigrated the Victims of Communism (VOC) Memorial on Capitol Hill, taking photos of themselves flipping it the middle finger, then posting and bragging about their slimy conduct on social media.
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Ignorance breeds fanaticism

This type of ignorance stems from a lack of education, and in some cases our nation’s cultural slide. But it is exactly what progressives — even Marxists — wanted in order to implement their policies. Millennials have become the type of de facto voter base socialist leaders cater to and ultimately exploit via everything from propaganda to crimes against humanity.

• Rutz, David. College Kids Are Intolerant Jerks
  The epidemic of wilting American college students unable to handle visiting speakers with dangerous, conservative views doesn't appear to be slowing down.
• Spencer, Robert. Truman State University: Robert Spencer set to speak, left-fascists call for violence.
Whoever said that fascism would come to America in the guise of anti-fascism got it right. The College Republicans chapter at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri invited me to speak Thursday. Last week, this invitation came to the attention of a young Kirksville resident who called herself Bella Waddle; Waddle tweeted (her tweets are now protected, but I was able to capture plenty of them in time): “Truman’s College Repubs are hosting anti-Muslim extremist Robert Spencer on the 13th. I think y’all know what to do... #bashthefash,” followed by an emoji of a fist. A friend of Waddle, identified on Twitter only as Sarah, got the point immediately, and tweeted in reply: “PUNCH! HIS! FACE!”
Another individual with “BlackLivesMatter” as part of his Twitter bio voiced indignation at the Islamophobic establishment, even though this was a private event, not sponsored by the university: “@TrumanState should be ashamed for hosting a bigoted extremist like @jihadwatchRS. Solidarity to those defying this.” Bella Waddle herself was determined to show defiance, tweeting several days before the event: “We’re organizing to make sure he knows he isn’t welcome here. And apparently he’s heard about it.”
• Starnes, Todd. Proposed Chick-fil-A has students at Duquesne aflutter about microaggressions
Well, here’s a cold, hard fact: Chick-fil-A is not in the business of selling hate chicken. They are a rock-solid, family-owned company flavored by Christian values. They do not discriminate. Period.
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Folks, this anti-poultry bigotry from perpetually offended groups is getting to be a bit tedious.
• Thornton, Bruce. Drain the higher ed. swamp that produced the 'Hang Trump' prof
The uproar over a Fresno State history lecturer’s tweets about assassinating President Trump is understandable, but in the end the outrage is pointless. It’s doubtful the feds will charge the fellow, given how outlandish and obviously hyperbolic the tweets are. Nor is he likely to be fired. All the commotion has accomplished is to turn a nobody into a left-wing martyr persecuted for “speaking truth to power.”
The fact is, there is nothing this guy said that wouldn’t be applauded by most faculty in the social sciences and humanities, even if they don’t have his gumption to say so out loud. The politicized university is entering its fifth decade, and was already a done deal when Alan Bloom publicized it in his surprising 1987 bestseller The Closing of the American Mind. Thirty years later, focusing on the stupid statements of individual professors, or in this case lecturers, does nothing to get at the root of the problem. They are symptoms of deeper structural changes in the administrative apparatus of most colleges, and these changes in part have been responses to federal laws, particularly affirmative action, sexual harassment law, and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act. With federal agency thugs backing campus leftists by threatening administrators with investigation or the reduction of federal funds, it has been easy to transform the university from a space for developing critical thinking and intellectual diversity, into a progressive propaganda organ and reeducation camp.
• Whitlock, Scott. Not a Misprint: MIT Press to Publish ‘Communism for Kids’ Book
Talk about starting the indoctrination early. The Washington Free Beacon on Monday reported that MIT Press is publishing “Communism for Kids,” a book aimed at brainwashing three to seven-year-olds, on those “lovable little revolutionaries.”
A description on Amazon cheered, “Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism.