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2017-08-03 Home Front: Culture Wars

College Protesters Demand Peers Pay Them for 'Emotional Labor'

h/t Instapundit
It often seems that campus activists are less about actually creating positive "change" and more about personal vanity. The latest entry comes from the upper-crust Sarah Lawrence College, where The College Fix reports that some activists feel they deserve to be compensated for their activism.
(i) That's a logical outcome of the new class' world view.
(ii) History shows that you will be compensated

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-03 03:50|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 Questions from College Confidential website:

2. Q: Is the political climate there all that radical? My mom and I were talking about it, and she doesn't think I could handle it. She says that it's very feminist, very granola/hippie-ish. I come from a southern conservative family, but I'm not as conservative as my parents and grandparents. I'd say that I'm more of a moderate with some Republican leanings. I'm generally pretty open-minded. Do you think I would be able to handle it?

2. A: Sarah Lawrence is unapologetically liberal -- but the environment hardly ever manifests itself as an aggressive political machine. Sure, there are feminists, but you're only going to meet students who study intellectual feminist literature, not women holding up picket signs and yelling angrily. I have one friend at SLC with conservative leanings but she only really felt uncomfortable during the elections -- a time when its hard to resist professing one's opinion. If the friends you make are strongly liberal, its not at all taboo to just request that no one talk about politics; my friends and I have agreed to not have political discussions because they're almost always uncomfortable.

In any case, if your "Republican leanings" include socially conservative values (as oppose to fiscal ones, for example), you will have a tough time.

4. Q: This is kind of frivolous, but I've heard that a lot of the boys at Sarah Lawrence are gay. Am I going to be able to meet guys?

A: 4. Like NYU/Vassar/Bard/etc, SLC has a higher open LGBT population than other schools, but that wouldn't be a factor in whether or not you get guys -- it would be that there are very few guys at SLC in general (something like 28/72 ratio), and of what ones there are, you'd be competing against all the other girls for them.

Do the"other girls" get to apply for activists benefits too?

If you are a Republican and/or conservative, it appears you will have considerable difficulty fitting in; otherwise about anything goes.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-03 09:41|| 2017-08-03 09:41|| Front Page Top

#2 They have a 28/72 male/female ratio?!?

That imbalance reeks of rampant gender discrimination, misandry, and female privilege. Where are the useful idiots-- er, I mean SJWs-- when you need them?

Posted by Eltoroverde 2017-08-03 12:45|| 2017-08-03 12:45|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm generally pretty open-minded. Do you think I would be able to handle it?

Probably not, the problem with being very open minded is that your brain tend to fall out. Hard to handle anything without a brain!

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-08-03 14:24|| 2017-08-03 14:24|| Front Page Top

#4 You want money? Get a job.

Posted by Raj 2017-08-03 15:21|| 2017-08-03 15:21|| Front Page Top

#5 I see the problem, they are just following the examples of other people who gets paid well for doing essentially nothing, such as university liberal art proffesors.

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-08-03 18:05|| 2017-08-03 18:05|| Front Page Top

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