Snowflakes Are Useful Idiots #17: LSU's Mascot is, er, "oppressive"...

“This is supposed to be a marketplace of ideas, and it’s not a marketplace of ideas if they’re trying to get rid of somebody with a contradictory viewpoint.”

Jack Kerwick slams the hammer down on Washington State's Evergreen College nursery school; his first salvo being, "President George Bridges should be summarily fired for failing to provide for the safety of faculty and students." Bingo.

I'm-Not-THAT Robert Spencer asks a simple question: "Is there anything that Christine Fair thinks Richard Spencer ought to be allowed to do? Does she find his breathing unacceptable?" Fair is the disgusting lefty who got the other Robert Spencer kicked out of his gym, because something...

Tom Knighton's back with a bizarre tale of a snowflake's petition to change LSU's mascot because it's oppressive. Really.

Dan Greenfield weighed in on the seemingly never-ending Evergreen State Invasion of the Entitled Whiners story, calling the college "a sick, sad totalitarian joke", while Jack Kerwick points out that political correctness is toxic and calls the college "The Poster School for Academic Rot". Ouch.

May you live in interesting times:

Greenfield, Dan: Evergreen State's Racist Safe Space Hell

The university was once a place of reason and learning. It is now a sick, sad totalitarian joke.

From now on all official Evergreen State events must begin by stating that it is built on stolen Indian land. The president’s pronoun was an admission of his cisgender privilege. It was the first of a series of ritual humiliations that he would undergo. And no one deserved them more than George Bridges.

Kerwick, Jack: Evergreen State College: The Poster School for Academic Rot: When revolutions devour their own

That inchoate but pervasive ideology known as “Political Correctness,” a dogma that is enshrined in and enforced nowhere to the extent that it is in academia, truly is toxic. It is a poison that all decent people concerned with the future of Western civilization should resist with every fiber of their being.

If the latest happenings at Evergreen State College aren’t enough to convince any and every person who isn’t a leftist fanatic of this, then nothing else can.

Knighton, Tom: Petition Wants To Change LSU's Tiger Mascot Because of 'Oppression'

It's getting harder and harder to tell if social justice stories are satire or not. And it's just about impossible to parody social justice warriors anymore, because any satire you offer up will probably have a college kid somewhere saying "let's do this."

This petition reported by Campus Reform could be a bit of clever trolling, though it certainly appears to be real

Sexton, John: Students demand UCLA allow conservative communications professor to keep teaching

About 25 students and supporters, carrying signs saying “Free speech is under attack” and “Keep your agenda out of our classroom,” gathered Friday on campus before bringing a list of demands to Laura Gómez, interim dean of UCLA College Division of Social Sciences which oversees the Communication Studies department, who wasn’t in her office when they delivered their list. Among the demands: that Fink be allowed to keep teaching and that the school implement curriculums “that increase intellectual tolerance” on campus.

Spencer, Robert: Leftists Want Their Enemies Dead

Is there anything that Christine Fair thinks Richard Spencer ought to be allowed to do? Does she find his breathing unacceptable?

Fair’s berating of Richard Spencer, and getting him kicked out of his gym, was quintessentially Nazi behavior, and was in direct contradiction to the principles that make a society free.

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Snowflakes Are Useful Idiots #17: LSU's Mascot is, er, "oppressive". Or something...