I don’t know what to suspect - like you say, it’s probably too small a sample to be able to tell much.
As well as the usual difficulties of establishing what is meant by rape/sexual assault/harassment, reported vs. convicted, he said/he said, the even greater shame felt by male rape victims - it’s hard to be sure.
I doubt this will be the death of public universities, but it might exacerbate something that already happens - someone graduates with a degree in Grievance Studies and can’t find a job, or else does find a job and then discovers nobody at work wants to listen to how oppressed the Third World is.
Well, would something like ‘‘the exploitation of female bodies’’ come off as weird?
''a cloud of oppression over female bodies"? Well, I guess that’s weirder.
Yeah, I dunno.
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You might have missed it earlier, but I gave a pretty detailed description of what these kids will likely end up doing after college. The short answer is: working in nonprofits.
Ok, I can see this. You can bet that a president Hillary would have ignored for fear of being associated with this. This would be wrong because like it or not, she would have been associated with this as would all the democrats. Now would she have called them out as snowflakes who are making a mockery of everything previous generations of liberals worked for? I doubt it.
I wonder how the mainstream democrats are taking it?
Yeah, but what happens when they have to write “Evergreen” on a job application? Are they going to have to say “I wasnt a part of that”?
Like it or not your colleges reputation is now part of you. Part of the reason the students at the University of Colorado pushed to remove the 420 marijuana events was the perception that their school was full of potheads.
But you could say that about virtually every other degree these days. The only people I’ve seen get consistent employment straight out of undergrad are engineers.
:dubious: I’ve written that shit on many job applications, and I’ve told many people where I went to school. You may be in a bubble, because in my experience, people either haven’t heard of Evergreen, or if they have, they’re knowledgeable enough about it that their eyes light up, and they say, “Oh, cool!”
There are some areas of life where I’m weak (I’m a terrible flirter, and I don’t exercise enough, and on occasion I may come across as sanctimonious folks tell me), but I don’t have much practice applying at jobs, because I don’t need to: I tend to get hired pretty quickly, and I tend to stay hired.
Your beliefs about the foolish prejudices folks hold against Greeners aren’t founded, in my experience. If you want to show me some stats that employers aren’t smart enough to distinguish between a school’s radical contingent and the bulk of its students, please offer those stats. Otherwise, accept that you’re wrong.
The only time any employer gives a shit where you went to college is a) if it has an exceptionally good reputation or b) they went to the same college.
This line of reasoning is wishful schadenfreude, as far as I can tell, hoping with little evidence that bystander students at Evergreen will suffer, so that the radicals learn to shut up. It doesn’t work that way, and there’s no evidence that it’s ever worked that way.
At best, a boss steeped in right-wing propaganda might make a judgment like this. That sort of boss is fairly rare in the circles I travel in, and if I lost a job under such a boss, I’d consider the bullet well dodged.