College Fix:
Make them tattle on each other for utterly harmless nonsense
Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has taken a novel approach to fostering intra-campus harmony: it encourages students to report “bias incidents” such as signs “color-coded pink for girls and blue for boys.” You’re not reading that incorrectly: If someone posts a sign advertising a women’s group and colors it pink, then Williams College wants you to report that to the school’s anti-bias squad, which will then take all appropriate action.
As we’ve written before, sometimes you just have to laugh about this stuff. But in another, more important sense, this kind of asininity is very troubling. A great many colleges are, as a matter of explicit policy, training their students to be neurotic messes. Even a few short years ago it would have been laughable to imagine that a campus administration would be encouraging adults—grown men and women—to tattle on each other for associating the color blue with men or boys. But now here we are. It’s a small thing, to be sure, but it is symptomatic of something much larger. read more
Brown would be the appropriate color for all today’s college students.
Could we have a survey of how many young people use this site? It could be very informative.
I can not wait until enter the job market and try some of this BS on a potential employer
So no Code Pink and no Pussy Hats. Got it.
I’m assuming they have no sports teams, because NCAA and most other organizations still see in terms of men and women.
Wish I lived close to Williamstown for one reason: I would troll these snowflakes on a constant basis. Try to overwhelm the office with ‘work’.
“How to make college students into neurotic basket cases”?
Tell them they have to pay off their student loans next week.
They’ve created a Department of Rat Fuck Studies, and the grading system is based on “A” for asshole.
Nobody expects the anti-bias squad. I think they should give them flowing red robes and big hats, and let them barge in on unsuspecting students at any time. I’m still on the fence about using thumb screws and the rack to coerce confessions of bias from recalcitrant students, but we are talking about maximum micro-aggressions so maybe.
Thanks Barack. You asshole slug.
I would not pay one dime for tuition to a school this out of touch with reality.
Just like the Soviets to tell the collective to tattle on one another.
THIS ISN’T NEW.
Back in the 90’s a major college in my area had a “Student tip line.” It was for reporting these sorts of things. They had mediators that would investigate and decide if it warranted going through official chains of university complaint protocol.
Basically a tattle-tale hotline.