But I don’t get why they’re so afraid of such ridiculous opponents. Why doesn’t the Dean just laugh them out of his office? When these whiny children turn up going “Waah! Someone wrote Trump 2016! I’m in paaaaaiiiiiin!!”, why don’t the adults just say “So what? Pansies like you would be in pain over damn near anything. You think I’ve got time to hold your fucking hands just because you saw the word Trump? Go to your room and do your homework, wimps.”
What could the kids possible do? Leave? Fine. Fuck 'em. I genuinely don’t get it. These pampered brats are so absurd, but the adults just keep taking them seriously. It’s mental.
That’s bad customer service. Charging tens of thousands of dollars for something means you pretty much have to take complaints, even silly complaints, and treat them seriously.
Edit: I’m not saying this is a good way of seeing it, but I think it’s a natural outcome of the rise in the price of a college education.
You act like this is new, like every new generation hasn’t found some way to assert itself over its elders. You’ve just been caught with your pants down, and now you’re desperately throwing insults around to try and draw attention from the fact you don’t know what just happened. Pathetic, really; you mistake weakness for strength, and strength for weakness, and can’t understand why the stronger party is winning. Your whining tantrum is just another symptom of the same rot which allows Cameron to flourish, which has so muzzled HRH’s pet media outlet it doesn’t dare report on actual news, and which wonders why living in a media spin zone means reality occasionally comes up and kicks its ass.
There is currently a sit-in going on at the office of the Chancellor of University of California Davis. She keeps begging them to leave, they keep ignoring her. Although in this case, I side with the protesters.
Derleth, your last post was weird and incoherent. Were you drunk? I’d address it, but it doesn’t make enough sense (what, for instance, does my disdain for these pussified students have to do with David Cameron?). Besides, I’m more interested in why you’re cheerleading for these crybullies. You seem to hold them in some kind of awe. It’s weird, frankly.
Where are you getting that conclusion from that article? Trump’s idea of making european NATO members pay more for their own defence is one of his very few sensible ideas. Give them a five year deadline to ramp up their own spending, make it clear that if they don’t contribute the minimum amount specified by the treaty then the US obligation is null and void.
His position, and yours, suggests a rather remarkable lack of understanding in terms of U.S. defense obligations, such marginal costs as are involved, and the fundamental purpose of NATO.
So protests are okay as long as they don’t actually get what they want? Literally every protest I can think of is about shutting down the competition. Abortion protestors are trying to shut down abortion. Anti-war protestors were trying to shut down the war. The WBC is trying to shut down funerals.
I didn’t know the term “Heckler’s veto,” but, looking it up, it appears to refer to when the government shuts down a protest claiming fear of violence. Even if I treat the university as a sort of government for their own campus, I can’t see how this applies.
There is also a less legal, more colloquial use of the term that literally refers to a heckler disrupting a speech, and preventing the speech of the intended speaker. But that’s not what was happening. Neither party is an invited speaker.
What I see, under what you thought was happening, is that a private institution was creating rules for the use of the chalkboard that they allowed their students to use. A bunch of students convinced them to do this. I don’t see how that’s any different that us going to ATMB and convincing the moderators on a rule.
Sure, you may disagree with the rule, but why shouldn’t they have the right to advocate for it?
It was not remotely incoherent and is not anything near how people write when they are drunk. He pointed out that you are an old fogey clinging on to the “good old days” who is finding out that reality is moving past you, and getting all upset by it.
And it shouldn’t be remotely complicated to figure out why he’s defending them. Your “crybullies” are the good guys. They are people fighting against evil like bigotry and hate. Social Justice Warriors are the good guys, fighting the good fight. Notice their fucking name? Social Justice–making society a just and fair place. You know, the things good people want.
Does that mean they always get things right? No. They’re college students and human beings. They make mistakes. But at least they are trying to do good. They are the people who are actually fighting for the little guys and the minorities. They’re the ones not being selfish, and caring about others.
Far from those who need to “grow a pair,” they are the ones who actually have a pair. And the idea of “mocking them” until they shut up is repugnant. Not that it would ever work. The more you attack, the more they are going to attack back.
No longer are the good guys being the meek little people you can bully around. That’s what frustrates you.
Speaking as a (quasi) old person I find this remark highly offensive. There’s nothing funny about being old. You deserve to be stripped of your career, publicly attacked on social media, and shunned by society.
And now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to try to find counseling somewhere…
