Monday, December 16, 2019

One Of Us Ain’t Too Smart


In the above Subject of this Foolishness…Or Is It? who is the “One” and who are the “Us”?

First of all I must explain a few things and I warn you this Blog Posting is going to get confusing but the confusion is not my fault. The confusion emanates from the world we now live in and it’s getting more confusing every day.
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First Of All … Am I Smart?
I play around a lot in my blog about my being smart because I keep referring to myself as The Smartfella (here’s where the confusion starts).

When I started blogging about 15 years ago I had this silly mindset that I was going to be Anonymous (that’s when I learned how spell “anonymous”).

I had this vision that I was going to be known all over the world because of my ability to see the foolishness in the world around me and sharing what I saw with the world…anonymously.

I decided my anonymous name would be Smart-Aleck. Carrying on with this silly thinking I decided that, since my name was Alex, I was going to give away my secret identity from the get-go, so I changed to Smartfella.

It’s as simple as that. This explanation proves I’m not that smart.
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Now starts today’s Blog Posting. Up until this point you have actually been reading the Preamble to Today’s Blog Posting.

I am not going to try and explain (because I can’t) what I am going to quote from the Wall Street Journal below. I will promise you that what you will read in quotation marks are exact quotes and you can figure it out…Or can u?

The article is entitled, “Why Are College Students So Afraid of Me?”

First Quote:
Few things upset American college students more than being told they aren’t oppressed. I recently spoke at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. I argued that American undergraduates are among the most privileged individuals in history by virtue of their unfettered access to knowledge. Far from being discriminated against, students are surrounded by well-meaning faculty who want all of them to succeed.

About 15 minutes into my talk, as I was discussing Renaissance humanism, a majority of the audience in the packed auditorium stood up and started chanting: “My oppression is not a delusion!” The chanters then declared that my sexism, racism and homophobia weren’t welcome on campus. “You are not welcome,” they added, as if I didn’t know.

The protesters drowned out my response before filing slowly out of the room, still loudly announcing their victimhood and leaving dozens of seats empty that could have been filled by students who had been turned away for lack of space. (The protesters had hoped to occupy the entire auditorium before vacating it, so no one else could hear me speak.)”

Second Quote:
“The maudlin self-pity on display at Holy Cross doesn’t arise spontaneously. It is actively cultivated by adults on campus. A few days before the Holy Cross protest, faculty and administrators at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa., convened a therapeutic “scholars” panel to take place during another talk of mine. The goal was to inoculate the university against the violence that I allegedly represented.

Bucknell’s interpersonal violence prevention coordinator; the director of its Women’s Resource Center; the interim associate provost for diversity, equity, and inclusion; a women’s and gender studies professor; and an economics professor discussed rape culture, trauma and racism. Students and faculty were then invited to join in painting “self-care” rocks.”

Third Quote:
“The claim that American universities, and the U.S. in general, are defined by white supremacy is the one unifying idea on college campuses today, in the absence of a shared curriculum dedicated to civilization’s greatest works. And that idea is spreading. School systems across the country are training teachers and administrators that colorblind standards and the work ethic are instruments of white privilege. Any private institution without proportional representation of minorities and females is vulnerable to attack, since bigotry is the only allowable explanation for the lack of sex and race “diversity.”
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That’s it. If you think I am going to say I understand what these students are so upset about, stop thinking I do because I don’t.

In fact I can hear Jack Nicholson shouting at today’s college students as I peck this closing out… “You can’t handle the truth!”

Would I kid u?
Smartfella


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This mind numbing pap is our fault as conservatives as we ignored control of education as a goal and surrendered it to the left. It has worked down from the college level to high schools and now the grammar schools. It has invaded private schools as well as the public schools . That is the problem. What is the solution? All I can think to do is voting and turn out the creators of white racism and sexism from the elected school boards. This comment is from one who does not discuss with my own children the efforts to change our culture and the election of those who understand the beacon that America is to so many. It guess I find it easier to talk about that with others as most of my peers are in the same boat. My wife is in a book club of 12 or so. Some are our age some are younger but most are the wives of teachers at the local college or retired teachers themselves. Thus it is her and maybe two others that are not still pushing the left agenda. The books they read are selected at the December meeting and it is only after 10 years in the club were two of her recommendations accepted and they are not written by Rush or Buckley . Maybe the answer is to send the left to Cuba or Mexico to see how the reality of poverty and control by the government produces nothing but more poverty and control. The one bright spot of recent note is the Governor of Florida issued an executive order that civics is to be reinstated in Florida’s schools. Merry Christmas not happy winter holiday.

Anonymous said...

Evil and hatred doth prevail on many college campuses and I am NOT kidding you!!!! Thanks for this article!

Anonymous said...

This blog – sounds scary? Our children and grandchildren will see the effects of this mindset – sad!