SJW Campus Insanity and its Causes

[Da Big Staw]

to a small school, so that may be a factor, but for all the people I've met there who do subscribe to social justice ideas, the campus LGBT group fell apart because so few students and faculty cared enough to actually be involved. The school is by no means LGBT-unfriendly, but between students and faculty you could count the members at each meeting on one hand most of the time. Most people don't even know the group exists, and when I talk to people they're generally pretty "eh" on anything deeper than "gay and trans bashing is bad"

I think everyone is aware that the people on campus and elsewhere agitating for this stuff represent a small minority.



The problem is modern leaders in both university and politics are unwilling to take them on. Nixon quickly destroyed the 60s radicals by embracing the power of the silent majority. Who felt uncomfortable with the way radicals attacked their way of life. I feel if leaders today did the same it would have a similar result.

 

[SJWs are cool]

The problem is modern leaders in both university and politics are unwilling to take them on. Nixon quickly destroyed the 60s radicals by embracing the power of the silent majority. Who felt uncomfortable with the way radicals attacked their way of life. I feel if leaders today did the same it would have a similar result.

he destroyed them so well they became culturally dominant in the 1970s and we are still dealing with the aftershocks

Removing gender specific bathrooms would kick ass though. Architects are hamstrung by requirements to include equal toilet facilities for each gender regardless of the makeup of the building. Public restrooms would be so much more efficient if both rooms were combined.

gender neutral bathrooms are a great idea because if we have them no one will ever have to whine about who can go into them

 

[Da Big Staw]

What are you talking about? Your saying that the fringe intellectuals of the 1970's "became culturally dominate" compared to the mass movements of the 60s counterculture? No one outside of of the intellectual fringe gave a fuck about about the extreme left identity politics/communism ect.. for 40 years.

Sure the society slowly to the left in some ways anyways. But this always happens and it would have been a million times wore if the hard left had any influence back then or now.

 

[John Daker]

I love gender neutral bathrooms. In my experience, they're usually cleaner and more spacious than their gendered counterparts. If you have to use a public toilet, there's none better. 9/10 would poop again.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

SJWs on campus are nothing new, as the late Rik Mayall here demonstrates:

Hell, I experienced it myself at university. I think the only thing that's really changed is that all the really big battles have been fought and won. Sexism, racism and homophobia still exist, sure, but they're nothing like the problem they were back in the 60s and 70s. Discrimination is heavily frowned upon and thanks to the Internet, the word can be spread in an instant when it occurs. It's no longer the case that the students are fighting an uphill struggle against an unsympathetic establishment and a media that doesn't care.
Thing is, when you're a student, you're experiencing independence for the first time. You're an adult (more-or-less), you're away from home and family, you're meeting new people and experiencing new things. You're full of energy and for the first time, you feel like you really matter. But there's no cause to take up. So new threats have to be manufactured or exaggerated, with the results we see.

 

[AnOminous]

SJWs on campus are nothing new, as the late Rik Mayall here demonstrates:

There was a time that Rik there was comic exaggeration, and not understated humor.

 

[Lunete]

I'm currently attending college in a red state so I don't see a whole lot of far left SJW type BS.
However, I once read an article about a guy who was banned from certain parts of his school's campus for looking like a rapist.

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

When I went to Uni, back in the seventies, I saw lots of "radicals" around but I was always too busy to get involved.

I don't know how kids now a days find the time to protest and make "safe spaces". I remember spending most of my time doing assignments and cramming for exams. Between the large amount of work needing to be done and the pyscotic professors I never had much down time. And what I had I used to chase tail and get drunk, not nessarily in that order mind you.

Maybe today's students have less work handed out? So more time to listen to useless drivel and protest the very institutions that allowed them to be protesters.

 

[Red_Rager]

When I went to Uni, back in the seventies, I saw lots of "radicals" around but I was always too busy to get involved.

I don't know how kids now a days find the time to protest and make "safe spaces". I remember spending most of my time doing assignments and cramming for exams. Between the large amount of work needing to be done and the pyscotic professors I never had much down time. And what I had I used to chase tail and get drunk, not nessarily in that order mind you.

Maybe today's students have less work handed out? So more time to listen to useless drivel and protest the very institutions that allowed them to be protesters.

I suspect most of these SJWs are involved in the soft majors where opinion matters more then facts. When I wasn't in class I was either studying or at work. Then again protesting and activism is too extroverted for me.

 

[SU 390]

I suspect most of these SJWs are involved in the soft majors where opinion matters more then facts. When I wasn't in class I was either studying or at work. Then again protesting and activism is too extroverted for me.

Yeah I'm pretty sure most of these students are in no particular order majoring in the following:

Liberal Arts(it depends of its straight up Lib Art or with Science)
Women's Studies(cue some BS from the ROK/Redpill community)
Psychology(nearly 90% of women are majoring in this field, dunno why, again cue BS from the ROK/Redpill community)
Art
Dance
Urban Studies
AA Studies
Theater

You clearly don't see any STEM, Nursing, Criminal Justice, or Law students wasting their time on things like that.

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

hmm, maybe this explains all the rampant autismu we see.

All the rational/intelligent people are far too busy getting, you know an education, while those with less obvious strong suits are messing around and getting credit for carrying a mattress all day.

The explosion of women attending university has been mirrored in the explosion of the soft majors. There hasn't been a explosion in women in the STEM fields or any real Science program but the number of graduates with a women studies major has more then quintupled in the last 10 years.

food for thought

EDIT:

I wonder if this has a correlation with all the claims that a university/college degree no longer offers you a better live.

IF most students are graduating with these soft degrees, Arts (not fine arts btw) women's studies, AA studies etc etc which have a very low demand in the current economy and lets be truthful low demand in any economy, wouldn't that explain the rise in the Starbucks Phd's?

All these complaints about student loans and no jobs, I'd be very interested to know which program these students graduated out of. I know some fields are heavily over-staffed like lawyers and pharmacy but most hard degree's will find you work pretty quickly IMHO.

 

[Teddy]

I see so many college grads working at In and Out, Starbucks and other crappy fast food joints.

And it's getting worse and worse, with more college kids actually inspiring to get a degree in Social Justice and become a idiot protester in major inner-cities, fighting against "the man" while complaining that "the man" won't give them money. I went to Berkeley for my sis' grad (she's a liberal feminist who majored in
Woman's studies, but actually got a job) and you should have seen all the grads who majored in unimportant fields like Language or Social Justice. It was crazy.

I plan on majoring in Engineering/Science, but who knows. Maybe I'll switch to 60s Radical Studies, Beyonce, or the Sexual Revolution.

 

[SU 390]

I see so many college grads working at In and Out, Starbucks and other crappy fast food joints.

And it's getting worse and worse, with more college kids actually inspiring to get a degree in Social Justice and become a idiot protester in major inner-cities, fighting against "the man" while complaining that "the man" won't give them money. I went to Berkeley for my sis' grad (she's a liberal feminist who majored in
Woman's studies, but actually got a job) and you should have seen all the grads who majored in unimportant fields like Language or Social Justice. It was crazy.

I plan on majoring in Engineering/Science, but who knows. Maybe I'll switch to 60s Radical Studies, Beyonce, or the Sexual Revolution.

Do you want to destroy America? Stick with Engineering you beta, white knight faggot!

 

[Teddy]

Do you want to destroy America? Stick with Engineering you beta, white knight faggot!

But I'll offer the world so many wonders and progression! Like the war against transophobia, and offering lessons on how Obama is God and how men are scum of the planet.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

You clearly don't see any STEM, Nursing, Criminal Justice, or Law students wasting their time on things like that.

I remember starting university and thinking that political activism would be everywhere but nobody I knew had any time for it even if they did have strong political opinions

Safe spaces with Play-Doh and bubbles.

Mu university actually has a safe space with Play-Doh and bubbles but everyone just uses it as an apolitical hangout space

 

[melty]

This is kind of spergy, but to answer the question of WHY SJW ideas are so prevalent and easily spread and the root causes of this phenomenon, I think it's important to examine how Social Justice functions as a meme (as defined as an idea, not doges)
This page is a good primer on the ideas of what makes a meme, or idea, "stick" or hold prominence in a human brain and replicate itself outside of it: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMSELC.html
I think you will find Social Justice in its current state fits most of these criteria, as does religion. Stuff about trophies and entitlement culture is interesting but simplistic and I think it's examining these criteria and the idea of what makes a meme successful and why that will give the most insight into the success of SJW ideas and how we got to this point so quickly.
I dunno if anybody else has any interest in this subject but I thought I'd throw it out there.

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

I have also ponder on wether SJWism is a result of an entire generation of children growing up with being told they're all super special snowflakes and everybody's a winner type of ego support through their childhood. Never encounter and real trials or challenges they never understood how to deal with harsh truth or their own failures.

Now these kids are entering the real world and a horrified that it's doesn't give two shits about how they feel. So they retreat to a safe space (Twitter or Tumblr) to regroup and band together to remake the world into something more palatable to their egos.

Just pondering...

 

[Totenkopf]

This is an article that was shared on my Facebook today, it's very good.

"So it's not just that students refuse to countenance uncomfortable ideas — they refuse to engage them, period. Engagement is considered unnecessary, as the immediate, emotional reactions of students contain all the analysis and judgment that sensitive issues demand."

 

[SU 390]

I remember starting university and thinking that political activism would be everywhere but nobody I knew had any time for it even if they did have strong political opinions

Mu university actually has a safe space with Play-Doh and bubbles but everyone just uses it as an apolitical hangout space

What type of university do you go to? I don't need the name since privacy is important, but what majors is it highly geared towards?

 

[autisticdragonkin]

What type of university do you go to? I don't need the name since privacy is important, but what majors is it highly geared towards?

I think it is mostly arts and business but I am in the faculty of economics/philosophy (double major) and mostly associate with economics, science, and math students