Snowflakes Are Useful Idiots: Recommended Reading List #8 (Are you ...

Whoa! What a week! Listen to a now-disgraced assistant high school principal threatening peaceful pro-life students in the Calabrese story...Watch the video, the guy's behavior was unbelievable (the creep resigned on May 11, 2017).

It wasn't all bad news, though, as the story from James Barrett brought some good news out of Tennessee, where legislators passed some of the strongest university free speech laws in the country.

Sadly, that ray of sunshine was eclipsed by Knighton's tale, which demonstrates that, just when you thought snowflakes couldn't possibly get any dumber, one from the University of Michigan contends that minorities are, er, oppressed by wood paneling. Or something.

Onward and upward, eh? Here's the latest collection of cultural Marxist BS, guaranteed to spoil your dinner:

Barrett, James: Tennessee Smacks Down Anti-Free Speech Left With Campus Free Speech Bill

Lawmakers in Tennessee just overwhelmingly passed what individual rights advocate FIRE is calling one of the country's "strongest" campus free speech bills yet.

Calabrese, Dan: Enraged liberal educator has to resign after video shows him berating Christian students

He’s angry. He’s defensive. He’s catty. He’s profane. And if you look a little below the surface, you’ll see that he’s terrified of what the demonstrating students are saying, to the point where he feels the need to not only shout over them and try to drown them out, but later to make false accusations against them to somehow wriggle out of the consequences of what he did. That did not work:

The ensuing kerfuffle terrified the school district which decided to suspend the assistant principal while they investigated the matter. Ruff defended himself by arguing that Haines posed a threat to the students safety and that the two protesters had been banging on passing cars. Through the investigation the school was able to ascertain that both of these assertions were patently untrue and Ruff had simply been lying to cover for his own bad behavior. Once the school district confronted Ruff with their findings he and his lawyer must have realized that there was simply no plausible defense for his behavior and the assistant principal chose to tender his resignation instead of allowing the school to fire him.

Goldenberg, Ashley Rae: Canadian Student Association Apologizes For Playing ‘Transphobic’ 'Take a Walk on The Wild Side’

In a statement on Facebook, Ontario’s University of Guelph Central Student Association apologized anyone who was upset by the “hurtful” “transphobic lyrics” played during a campus event. The student association claimed the song “Take a Walk on the Wild Side” was picked for a playlist of ‘70s and ‘80s songs out of “ignorance” and showed “an error in judgement”

Haber, John: Campus Wars and the ‘Culture of Victimhood’

Like members of a dignity culture, members of a “Culture of Victimhood” do not perceive turning to authority as a source of shame. In fact, they are ready to reach for this option immediately, demanding protection from harm (in the form of safe spaces and trigger warnings) and punishment of transgressors, which they insist be provided by authority figures (such as campus administrators) immediately upon request.

Kaufman, Stuart: A Spreading Virus in America’s Education System

The invasion started with the advent of “political correctness.” Its purported purpose was to refocus our language — and behavior — so as to not inadvertently offend the easily offended. So, for example, those who previously had declared they wanted to be called “black” announced that henceforth the “politically correct” appellation would be “African-American.” Some women decided that the inclusion of “men” in pronouns and titles was demeaning and we wholesale changed our references to gender-free, if cumbersome, titles such as “chairperson” instead of “chairman.” It all seemed rather benign in the beginning. Even if you didn’t agree, you could shrug, laugh and say that if it made them happy, what difference would it make. Forgetting that he (she?) who controls language controls thought, we blithely assumed that life would go on as usual.

Kincaid, Cliff: Dismantling the Marxist Madrassas

Academia is not only a bastion of anti-Trump sentiment, but it has become the most important base of operations, next to the media, for attacks on conservative Americans devoted to saving their country and its traditional religious values.

It is anticipated that Falwell’s task force will recommend the increasing use of online courses in order to drive down the costs of higher education for students nationwide. This is a proven method to accomplish what we call “Defunding the Marxist Madrassas.” In this way, the academic bastions of Marxist thought that inhibit real diversity in thinking, and even prevent conservatives from coming on campus, can be reduced in their influence and even dismantled.

Knighton, Tom: UMich Student Says Minorities Are Oppressed by Wood Paneling

Anna Wibbelman, former president of Building a Better Michigan, an organization that voices student concerns about university development, stated at a student government meeting in late March that “ minority students felt marginalized by quiet, imposing masculine paneling” found throughout the 100-year-old building, the meeting’s minutes state.

Moonbattery: Fresno State University Professor Teaches Students About Free Speech by Squashing It

Professor Gregory Thatcher of Fresno State University has two lessons for us today: (1) silencing free speech is free speech, and (2) colleges are not free speech areas anyway. Rather than spending a fortune on tuition, watch and learn for free:

Shaw, Jazz: Only you can stop the scourge of white people wearing ponchos

I suppose the only truly shocking thing about this story is that it didn’t take place in Berkeley. At the University of New Hampshire a student activist group has identified what’s really wrong with this country and is making plans to set things to rights. In case you hadn’t already guessed, the poison seeping into the public bloodstream this time is white people wearing ponchos or sombreros, particularly during Cinco de Mayo.

Two disgusting, racist white devils

Smith, Justin: Pansy America's New Bill of 'Rights'

Americans have become a wilting, withering mass of weak, needy crybabies who have departed far and away from the strength of back, intellect, and character of America's Founders, who created a system that none other has ever equaled. Rather than follow along the path that made America a strong, economically thriving and prosperous nation, many Americans, especially Millennials, pursue petty and paltry pleasures, as would a sloth and a glutton, and claim their slightest whim to be a "right."

Williams, Walter E: Sheer Lunacy on Campus

Parents, taxpayers and donors have little idea of the levels of lunacy, evil and lawlessness that have become features of many of today's institutions of higher learning. Parents, taxpayers and donors who ignore or are too lazy to find out what goes on in the name of higher education are nearly as complicit as the professors and administrators who promote or sanction the lunacy, evil and lawlessness. As for the term "institutions of higher learning," we might start asking: Higher than what? Let's look at a tiny sample of academic lunacy.

During a campus debate, Purdue University professor David Sanders argued that a logical extension of pro-lifers' belief that fetuses are human beings is that pictures of "a butt-naked body of a child" are child pornography. Clemson University's chief diversity officer, Lee Gill, who's paid $185,000 a year to promote inclusion, provided a lesson claiming that to expect certain people to be on time is racist.

Background Reading

Snowflakes Are Useful Idiots: Recommended Reading List #7 - and a dose of Schlichter.

Ken McVay OBC
Certified Curmudgeon

Snowflakes Are Useful Idiots: Recommended Reading List #8 (Are you oppressed by wood paneling?)