American Thinker: Snowflakes keep falling on campus heads; nothing seems to fit. Snowflakes are light and blow with the wind, but they become potent if they form a blizzard. They already have produced a storm in U.S. and British universities, where some members of the faculty, student body, and administration appear unable to tolerate expressions of policy, opinion, and speech other than their own. At the same time, these intolerant perpetrators of the tempest paradoxically often demand a “safe space” for themselves.
Snowflakes have also discerned and exploited weakness in those assumed to epitomize tolerant diversity of expression and exchange of ideas. Allan Bloom, in his book The Closing of the American Mind, 1987, arguing that moral relativism is a barrier to critical thinking, pointed out that a few students discovered that the pompous teachers who enlightened them about academic freedom could, “with a little shove,” be made into dancing bears.
The dancing bears in Britain and in the U.S. universities have been hesitant or unable to deal with snowflakes. They are cautious in response to public utterances that offend the sensitive students. A considerable number stand accused of that offense. In Britain, the distinguished 76-year-old Australian feminist writer Germaine Greer had difficulty speaking at Cardiff University in November 2015 because of her unpopular view on men who call themselves women. A petition of 300 students had found her views “problematic” or “hateful.” In the U.S., well known conservative writers – Charles Murray in March 2017 at Middlebury College and Heather Mac Donald in April 2017 at Claremont McKenna – were not allowed to complete their speeches. read more
Kind of off topic. But speaking of snowflakes – a bunch of whackjobs ( a group calling itself Melting Ice) want to make a Mount Rushmore sized ice carving of President Trump (Trumpmore) on an Arctic glacier, to protest PDJT withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement & Clean Power Plan, hoping it will melt, and thereby convince people global warming is not a hoax.
https://www.snewsnet.com/news/project-trumpmore-ice-sculpture .
It would be kind of fun if they succeed and then it doesn’t melt. However, they are trying to stack the deck in their favor by their choice of glacier.
But snowflakes melt when you apply heat!
They also cause avalanches when they all band together and roll downhill.
The left is now saying we can’t use “what-about-ism” when comparing say, Samantha Bee’s treatment to Roseanne Barr’s or Trump’s 12 year old locker room sound bite to Joy Reid’s politically incorrect thought out and published blogs from the same time.
The “moral relativists” who justified everything by saying “what about” now denounce “what-aboutism”. Alinsky said to hold the other side to their impossibly high standards. Let’s do it.
I care little of opinions of those who still depend on government loans or their parents for tuitions and living expenses while they are being indoctrinated. These people have never been self sufficient, held a job or had any types of responsibility. Conclusion is they don’t know shit yet. Problem is they think they’re the smartest generation in history. MY thoughts are they have unsubstantiated delusions of grandeur which results in idiotic statements.
Just ignore them until they grow up enough to discover how wrong they were.