College Students Are Ridiculously Infuriating Safe-Space/Mega-thread

[Famous Mortimer]

I would support changing the name and mascot of Amherst University because Amherst was a bad dude.

People claiming it is causing them pain though are stupid as hell.

Yes, I'm tone policing. Tone policing is good. If you want to actually get things changed, you need to have a tone that isn't ridiculous.

[Famous Mortimer]

Protesters at Princeton are demanding "Affinity Housing" ie voluntary re-segregation. Called this.

[Famous Mortimer]

Legally, of course, it would be illegal to have housing that was only available to Black people. So what they're proposing is housing just for "people who are interested in Black culture". I wonder how that will work in practice though, given how they no doubt feel about "cultural appropriation".

[Famous Mortimer]

I'd be more willing to criticize the "SJW" movement if it didn't mean siding with a bunch of racists.

For every one legitimate complaint about being overly PC, there are 20 angry white kids who think concepts like not calling gay people fags, not using the N-word, not dressing up in black face, not using misogynist terms, etc. are stupid.

That's part of the problem. Reasonable people refuse to speak up and then the only people talking are extremists and trolls.

[Famous Mortimer]

Was just wondering today, why in the face of the Great Recession, the American education system was able to survive, even though it it's been obvious in the almost 8 years since, that college degrees, and liberal arts degrees in particular, are less than worthless in their current form.

Why do people young people still sign up to get BAs in psychology, anthropology, sociology, political science, and gender studies when 1) they know it won't get them a job 2) they can find more in depth information about these subjects online for free?

It doesn't seem a coincidence that the moment when schools could no longer lie about making their students money was the same moment schools decided to push hard the idea that their students were collectively possessed by a demon called privilege and the only way to exorcise it is to "get educated"/pay a school lots of money.

[Famous Mortimer]

Was just wondering today, why in the face of the Great Recession, the American education system was able to survive, even though it it's been obvious in the almost 8 years since, that college degrees, and liberal arts degrees in particular, are less than worthless in their current form.

Why do people young people still sign up to get BAs in psychology, anthropology, sociology, political science, and gender studies when 1) they know it won't get them a job 2) they can find more in depth information about these subjects online for free?

It doesn't seem a coincidence that the moment when schools could no longer lie about making their students money was the same moment schools decided to push hard the idea that their students were collectively possessed by a demon called privilege and the only way to exorcise it is to "get educated"/pay a school lots of money.

It's still very possible to get jobs with some of the degrees you listed (gender studies majors usually have other issues which make them un-hireable).  I've found that with most entry level jobs, it really doesn't matter what your bachelor's degree was in, as long as you have one.  My friend graduated with a degree in history and now works for a PR company. Masters degrees are where it really matters what it is.

How long ago did he graduate? I would say that's very rare. Most "entry level" jobs either pay about the same as retail ($10 an hour) or actually want you already to have a Masters and five years experience.

[Famous Mortimer]

Killing people is bad. Free speech is good. These ideas do not conflict at all.