Ivy Privilege
If I were PRIVILEGED -- yes, privileged -- enough to attend Dartmouth, I sure as fuck wouldn't be spending my evenings yelling at other students in the library. First, because it's rude, but mainly, because it's a waste of a potential education...and a high-dollar one at that.
Jessica Chasmar writes at the Wash Ex:
Roughly 150 Black Lives Matter protesters reportedly stormed a library at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, Thursday night to berate students studying there for their supposed racial privilege.The Dartmouth Review, an independent newspaper at the private Ivy League college, reported that protesters marched into the Baker-Berry Library shouting profanity and berating white students.
Protesters reportedly shouted "F- you, you filthy white f--" "f- you and your comfort" and "f- you, you racist s-."
"Throngs of protesters converged around fellow students who had not joined in their long march," The Review reported. "They confronted students who bore 'symbols of oppression' such as 'gangster hats' and Beats-brand headphones. The flood of demonstrators opened the doors of study spaces with students reviewing for exams. Those who tried to close their doors were harassed further. One student abandoned the study room and ran out of the library. The protesters followed her out of the library, shouting obscenities the whole way."
Ivy Privilege: Being able to attend Dartmouth. Ivy Thuggery: Stopping others who do from studying in the library.
As for where some of this rage might be coming from, Stuart Taylor, Jr., explains in The American Spectator that racial preferences policies "bring in black students who are well qualified for moderately elite schools like (say) the University of North Carolina, but not for the Ivies that recruit them":
This, in turn, increases these students' isolation and self-segregation from the higher-achieving Asians and whites who flourish in more challenging courses. At least one careful study shows that students are more likely to become friends with peers who are similar in academic accomplishment.Put yourself in the position of manyHispanic and especially black students (recipients of by far the largest racial preferences) at selective schools, who may work heroically during the first semester only to be lost in many classroom discussions and dismayed by their grades.
As they start to see the gulf between their own performance and that of most of their fellow students, dismay can become despair. They soon realize that no matter how hard they work, they will struggle academically.
It is critical to understand that these are not bad students. They did well in high school and could excel at somewhat less selective universities where they would arrive roughly as well prepared as their classmates.
But due to racial preferences, they find themselves for the first time in their lives competing against classmates who have a huge head start in terms of previous education, academic ability, or both.
Researchers have shown that racial preference recipients develop negative perceptions of their own academic competence, which in turn harms their performance and even their mental health, through "stereotype threat" and other problems. They may come to see themselves as failures in the eyes of their families, their friends, and themselves.
Such mismatched minority students are understandably baffled and often bitter about why this is happening to them. With most other minority students having similar problems, their personal academic struggles take on a collective, racial cast.
Protesting in a time and place that is completely irrelevant to their cause. Being complete jerks to their fellow students, which will actively harm their cause. A cause they pretty clearly don't even understand, if they think that Beats headphones are symbol of oppression.
Meanwhile, scum like this kills a black kid just for the hell of it. The silence is deafening. No uprisings, no protests, nothing.
a_random_guy at December 1, 2015 3:55 AM
Meanwhile, someone who should have been admitted is getting an education elsewhere. They are destroying the Ivy League brand, one over-entitled and under-performing jerk at a time.
MarkD at December 1, 2015 5:15 AM
Of course, it being the Ivies, the students who were attacked by these crybullies would not think of throat-punching their attacker, much less pulling out pepper spray, a stun gun, or, horror of horrors, a compact pistol, and ventilating their attackers. . .
Keith Glass at December 1, 2015 6:33 AM
This should not be a surprise in any way. Once the level of comfort for the masses gets above the subsistence level far enough for them to forget where food comes from, the masses kill the intelligent among them, for being different, and for bringing uncertainty everywhere they go.
Radwaste at December 1, 2015 6:46 AM
Meanwhile, scum like this kills a black kid just for the hell of it. The silence is deafening. No uprisings, no protests, nothing.
For the same reason why the Usual Suspects won't challenge the Islamists: those people won't sit there and take it, they'll kill us.
They want to say they're down with the struggle, but not actually face physical danger.
I R A Darth Aggie at December 1, 2015 7:01 AM
There are several transition points in every totalitarian movement. There's an early stage in which the movement tries to argue in favor of its philosophy and convince people. In this early stage, the movement attaches itself to a worthwhile cause in order to gain popularity and bring attention to itself. It creates the appearance of supporting the cause and establishing an ethic.
However, once sufficient power is achieved, a transition happens. The movement no longer bothers to maintain an intellectual or moral pretense. Its goal now is not to convince you of the righteousness of its views. It doesn't give a crap what you think about its views. Its goal is to intimidate you into submission and silence. (And if that doesn't work, physical violence is no longer off the table.)
Kristallnacht, the Cultural Revolution, and the Dartmouth Library. They are the same in kind; they differ only in scope.
Cousin Dave at December 1, 2015 7:04 AM
Oddly enough, the University news has nothing to report on the matter.
Dartmouth Now
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at December 1, 2015 7:52 AM
It's going to be interesting if this happens on a concealed-carry campus.
Non-lethal protection should be used first but if pressed into a wall by a group of adults yelling and getting close doesn't produce a sense of not being 'safe' I'm not sure what does (dead white men's writings excluded).
Bob in Texas at December 1, 2015 8:09 AM
So a bunch of racists storm the library to assault a bunch of students because of the color of their skin. These are criminals who should be expelled.
Matt at December 1, 2015 8:28 AM
Or prosecuted.
matt at December 1, 2015 9:45 AM
And when will the mainstream media call these thugs racists?
About the same time they will call the guy who threatened to kill 16 white males at University of Chicago a racist.
Of course, the answer is no time soon.
charles at December 1, 2015 12:22 PM
"Throngs of protesters converged around fellow students who had not joined in their long march," The Review reported. "They confronted students who bore 'symbols of oppression' such as 'gangster hats' and Beats-brand headphones. The flood of demonstrators opened the doors of study spaces with students reviewing for exams. Those who tried to close their doors were harassed further. One student abandoned the study room and ran out of the library. The protesters followed her out of the library, shouting obscenities the whole way."
Those actions are crimes. The police should be called. Bust into a room and start screaming at me, and someone is getting a bloody nose, at least.
Steve Danielss at December 1, 2015 5:04 PM
You're going to fight a mob with your fists? Good luck with that. You'll probably be expelled to boot. Leave it to the cops - the real ones, not the campus police. "Riot in the library, people injured" ought to do it. You didn't lie, your psyche was injured.
MarkD at December 2, 2015 5:56 AM
Knock one of them down, and the rest will run screaming for their "safe space" and start wittering on about microagression.
Steve Danielss at December 2, 2015 9:46 AM
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