Taxpayers should definitely ask for our money back.
The mindless inanity spreading across American campuses is the opposite of “education,” as education has traditionally been understood.
I guess it is education, in an inverted, gee-this-isn’t-working sort of way. The whole idea of educating the younger generations is to minimize the life lessons they have to learn by making morons of themselves. If humankind has been around the same mulberry bush ten thousand times, why not package the lessons learned and pass them on in an easily digestible format?
Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
Not everyone takes readily to learning without being hit over the head with a two-by-four. But a lot of people do, if you just give them the chance.
Unfortunately, that chance is what we’re withholding from too many kids now. And so we have the saga of #RockChalkInvisibleHawk* and the Candy Cane Microaggression.
The short version is that on Wednesday, some kids (these are mental and emotional children we’re talking about) who call themselves RockChalkInvisibleHawk as they protest systemic something-or-other in solidarity with Mizzou were roaming the University of Kansas campus, in some stage of their plan to invade the university administration offices. During the general surge, they encountered members of the Delta Delta Delta sorority, who were selling candy canes to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Hospital.
An interaction ensued, after which the following tweets were emitted:
.@KUTriDelta u could've stood up in solidarity w/@InvisibleHawks&passed around the donation box.There were 50 ppl&U could've raised lotsof $
— المكسيكيه (@almeksikiya) December 9, 2015
https://twitter.com/AKinkead/status/674662775151394816
So now fundraising for sick children when other people want to hold a protest is a microaggression, at least if it involves laughter and candy canes. Campus Reforms’s Peter Fricke illuminates:
“@KUTriDelta cares more about philanthropy than #blacklivesmatter,” Kinkead tweeted in an apparent reference to the sorority’s unwillingness to forsake their fundraiser and join the racial protest.
“The shouts of @KUTriDelta are coming from privilege,” Kinkead added in a follow-up tweet. “They are silencing the students of color who are hurting.”
Others who witnessed the exchange say they didn’t see the Tri Delts “silencing” anyone.
The #RockChalkInvisibleHawk Twitter stream is endless (and frankly tedious), but still informative on the mindset of the protest group and some of its critics. Let’s put it this way: by comparison, fourth-graders having a juvenile intrigue in the lunch room are a college of Cardinal Richelieus.**
It’s best to let a few of the tweets speak. This is just one back-and-forth exchange.
https://twitter.com/nslov/status/674706681595478016
@nslov the philanthropy/cause was not the issue. The impact of the actions of the members were the issue.
— TranzWrites ???????? (@TranzWrites) December 9, 2015
https://twitter.com/nslov/status/674708450664779776
@nslov the perception was they were unwilling to compromise/share space in a way that benefitted both groups.
— TranzWrites ???????? (@TranzWrites) December 9, 2015
https://twitter.com/nslov/status/674709160601063424
@nslov #RockChalkInvisibleHawk did no such thing.
— TranzWrites ???????? (@TranzWrites) December 9, 2015
https://twitter.com/nslov/status/674711150290862080
All of which led up to one of my favorite tweets from the great River Twitter:
@nslov chanting all lives matter during a Black Lives Matter protest is insulting and violent.
— TranzWrites ???????? (@TranzWrites) December 9, 2015
But it didn’t end there:
https://twitter.com/nslov/status/674712428580483072
@nslov if you disagree with their tactics, I don't feel you understand the message.
— TranzWrites ???????? (@TranzWrites) December 9, 2015
On and on it goes. We’ll let our tweep Danica Christine have the last word:
y'all @InvisibleHawks isn't about silencing a philanthropy. I was there. I heard RCIH offer to buy all the candy so they could stand w them.
— The Real Dirty Dan (@DanicaCh) December 9, 2015
Hey, they proposed a workable solution for interrupting other people’s plans and overriding their priorities. They offered to pay the Tri Delts to act as a rent-a-mob. What more do you want?
We really do owe these kids an apology for suffering the education system that has messed them up so badly to become the monster it is. It’s time to pull the plug. Cut the funding. Turn the educational establishment out with a broom to the backside. Just shut the sucker down and start over.
* “Invisible Hawk” – Kansas Jayhawks. Get it? (And where’s the inimitable Iowahawk when we need him?)
** Or, for those who like to show off, Richelieux. My preference is to anglicize wherever possible, as that usually makes English writing flow better, and is simply less annoying. But it’s an interesting question – one I don’t know the answer to – what the French do about referring in written French to more than one Cardinal Richelieu. (Cardinals Richelieu? That wouldn’t really do for colloquial English. But French is usually about spare simplicity in such matters.)
