Thread: PC Madness at Unis: Coddling of the American mind

Originally Posted by thaimeme

Originally Posted by MrG

I have a hard time believing any self respecting college student isn't lauging his/her ass off at these guidelines. They read like something cobbled together from some administrator Cover-Your-Ass manual.

On the assumption that the average college student is connected enough to recognize such to be amused.

I wouldn't bet on it.

Maybe your generation doesn't have a clue. When I was in college there would have been theme parties sending these rules up the flag pole, with a lot of the professors attending.

Originally Posted by MrG

Originally Posted by thaimeme

Originally Posted by MrG

I have a hard time believing any self respecting college student isn't lauging his/her ass off at these guidelines. They read like something cobbled together from some administrator Cover-Your-Ass manual.

On the assumption that the average college student is connected enough to recognize such to be amused.

I wouldn't bet on it.

Maybe your generation doesn't have a clue. When I was in college there would have been theme parties sending these rules up the flag pole, with a lot of the professors attending.

The key phrase alluding to his generation not yours, things have changed dramatically.

Originally Posted by MrG

Maybe your generation doesn't have a clue. When I was in college there would have been theme parties sending these rules up the flag pole, with a lot of the professors attending.

Wine on the library lawn while zoning out on deckchairs . . . Ah, those were the days

Originally Posted by panama hat

Originally Posted by MrG

Maybe your generation doesn't have a clue. When I was in college there would have been theme parties sending these rules up the flag pole, with a lot of the professors attending.

Wine on the library lawn while zoning out on deckchairs . . . Ah, those were the days

Much like the old days in the Navy. These days you'll rarely, if ever ,find an officer hanging out with the enlisted peeps. Unless it's a command function or Commanding Officer showing some love for his constituents.

Originally Posted by Neverna

Originally Posted by panama hat

Originally Posted by MrG

Maybe your generation doesn't have a clue. When I was in college there would have been theme parties sending these rules up the flag pole, with a lot of the professors attending.

Wine on the library lawn while zoning out on deckchairs . . . Ah, those were the days

No croquet, Hatters? Or was that payed on a different lawn? A very pleasant way to spend an hour or two on a warm and sunny afternoon.

UNSW (University of New South Wales) has a very nice lawn in front of the library . . . and while studying I was an Industrial Relations Law tutor and had a small cubby hole which contained two sun loungers . . . my parents had a very nice wine collection . . . and the rest is history.
Sun cream, radio, wine and fresh air . . .

Twas a good time

(No croquet - that was at school! )

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

there simply is no interest in education or social development

For sure, as the result of both leads to lower corporate bottom lines.

Originally Posted by panama hat

(No croquet - that was at school! )

How the other half lives eh.... very posh Hatters!

We had mashed potato at our school served at just a shade above room temperature

Originally Posted by Looper

How the other half lives eh.... very posh Hatters!

I did cricket, rugby, football at our oval and kayaking/canoeing in Rose Bay, just a minute away from school.

Croquet is for wumps

Originally Posted by Looper

We had mashed potato at our school served at just a shade above room temperature

Luxury, pure luxury . . . We didn't have lunch at school, that must be for posh kids - had to bring to from home -


(croquet - kroketten . . . yup! )

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/us...umes.html?_r=0

In reference to the video i posted of the brat screaming at her professor for not banning certain halloween costumes.

Well now he has decided to take a sabatical and hus wife who also teaches there has resigned.

All this over pc nonsense about halloween costumes.

Originally Posted by longway

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/us...umes.html?_r=0

In reference to the video i posted of the brat screaming at her professor for not banning certain halloween costumes.

Well now he has decided to take a sabatical and hus wife who also teaches there has resigned.

All this over pc nonsense about halloween costumes.

Cowardly of them.

^ ths scales must have fallen off their eyes. But yes they should have stayed.

Originally Posted by longway

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/us...umes.html?_r=0

In reference to the video i posted of the brat screaming at her professor for not banning certain halloween costumes.

Well now he has decided to take a sabatical and hus wife who also teaches there has resigned.

All this over pc nonsense about halloween costumes.

I was surprised to see the guy "debating" the issue with the girl/students outside like that. Surely a properly convened meeting would have been more appropriate.

^ Imo the confrontation looked engineered by the students to me.

It could have been, but more fool the professor for not cutting it short and inviting the students to address the issue in a more appropriate environment.

^ He could have handled it better with the benefit of hindsight, but he looked to me as he was forced into a corner and he decided to try and address the issue as fully and honestly as he could under the circumstances; nor does it mitigate for the behaviour of the students involved.

I think he has woken up to the lunatic fringe who seem to be increasingly calling the shots at university campuses; this is all part and parcel of the aims of pc. Its got nothing to do with standards of politeness or tolerance, but about suppressing any alternative views or behaviours other than those deemed pc.

Another addition to the thread. Man gets suspended from university for 21 months and banned from getting credits at other educational institutions for making a joke in response to a #blackwomenmatter hashtag on something called yikyak, a supposedly anonymous chat app.

Here's the joke: “They matter, they’re just not hot.”

https://www.thefire.org/colorado-col...ke-on-yik-yak/

Originally Posted by longway

this is all part and parcel of the aims of pc. Its got nothing to do with standards of politeness or tolerance, but about suppressing any alternative views or behaviours other than those deemed pc.

For sure there are attempts by some to make the narratives suit their views but it is not one sided by any means. Right wingers, left wingers, religious folks (some Christians, Muslims and Buddhists), Israelis, some courts (German and [possibly] French) and a great many politicians of all hues are among those (but not only those) who try to suppress alternative views or behaviours. "PC", however, seems to be a catch-all phrase aimed mainly at liberals by conservatives when liberals do something conservatives don't like.

^ I think I have said before, the main victims of pc are those who hold moderate views.

The topic is: PC Madness at Unis: Coddling of the American mind

So it inevitably concentrates on this particular spectrum of nutjobs.

Also you are making a general point, one that I don't necessarily disagree with, but it is not really relevant; nor does it contradict the fact that the goals and values of pc not those of tolerance or politeness, they are of suppression and oppression; that other political or religious spectrums share these characteristics or use the term pc denigrate liberals is neither here nor there; the very fact that they can speaks volumes about the lunacy inherent within it.

This form of pc is in the ascendance at US universities, so is perfectly fair to concentrate focus on it.

So are you saying (or would you say) the liberals in American universities are winning the narrative war over the conservatives in American universities?

^ I think the liberals have long dominated, but now it's a lunatic fringe that is emerging and starting to dominate and they are very ideological and authoritarian and brook no dissent. They are not liberal in the true sense. You are starting to see the true face of pc.

Originally Posted by longway

You are starting to see the true face of pc.

I'd disagree with that - you out it nicely prior tho this:

Originally Posted by longway

lunatic fringe

There's nothing wrong with the theory of being 'pc' - which is a stupid term anyway. Being mindful of others isn't a negative, rather a mirror of society's maturity

Originally Posted by panama hat

Originally Posted by longway

You are starting to see the true face of pc.

I'd disagree with that - you out it nicely prior tho this:

Originally Posted by longway

lunatic fringe

There's nothing wrong with the theory of being 'pc' - which is a stupid term anyway. Being mindful of others isn't a negative, rather a mirror of society's maturity

But you don't practice what you preach.

Originally Posted by panama hat

There's nothing wrong with the theory of being 'pc' - which is a stupid term anyway.

But when fear of causing offence to minorities, or offending the sensitivities of individuals, is taken to absurd levels, to the extent that reasonable exercise of free speech is censured and reasonable free expression is curtailed, it is not good for society.