Ashe Schow wonders at Wash Ex what will happen when all of these "delicate snowflakes" ...enter the work world

Entering the work world is not in their contemplation. This is a convocation of an elite-in-the-making.

I find the use of jazz hand demeaning and derogatory towards homosexuals.

I demand that women instead show approval by baring their breasts and shaking back and forth.

"Ashe Schow wonders at Wash Ex what will happen when all of these "delicate snowflakes" ...enter the work world"

They will at first fail, and move back home for a few years. They will then attempt to get some law passed mandating safe working conditions, meaning safe from bad words. Try and hopefully fail to mandate each company have a sensitivity officer. And spend the next few years trying a few jobs and suing the companies for some kind of discrimination or hostile work environments.

I've employed my fair share of engineers over the years, and I can't imagine keeping a straight face if any job applicant ever asked me to accommodate infantile insecurities of this kind.

-jcr

You guys are pretty worried about their job opportunities. I think HR departments all over the world are just waiting for their applications.

But visually impaired people are being discriminated against by jazz hands!

...and what about intersectionaliy?

I presume we're not talking about Léon Foucault, he of the pendulum fame, but rather Michel Foucault the 20th century philosopher.

Also: jazz hands is cultural appropriation.

Of course, as a white man I probably shouldn't point out such microaggressions.

My sister had one of these living on her couch for a while. A very intelligent fellow filled with an amazing amount of insecure arrogance. He really bought into the perfection-worthless duality, i.e. either he was perfect in absolutely every way or he was a worthless piece of trash. So you got oscillating blabage of how great and wonderful and absolutely better than you he was followed by sorry for the incompetence/stupidity/living/... He actually expected my sister to drive him wherever he wanted whenever he wanted because 'I don't know the town.' The concept of learning the town didn't occur to him.

My sister took it as an educational experience and kicked him out when she had learned enough.

I asked my daughter in college just how many social justice warrior-types there actually were at her campus. She didn't think there were that many, but they made up their lack of numbers by being noisy. I suspect most of them will settle down by the time college ends and they find out that nobody's really listening to them.

How will they do in the real world? Who knows? Most of them, separated from the affirmations of their pack, will probably function reasonably well after a while. Of course, there will be a few who won't get it; you'll find them moping in the coffee houses.

"You guys are pretty worried about their job opportunities. I think HR departments all over the world are just waiting for their applications."

This. The HR people are those kinds of people themselves; they have been leading the charge. They're going to hire fellow travelers. Those are the kinds of people they want. People like me are the kind of people they want to get rid of. They'll get jobs. Actually doing work is another matter, but they'll get jobs.

And there will be a rerun of the workplace-sexual-harassment hysteria of the 1990, except ten times worse. There will be suits and counter-suits and counter-counter-suits and laws and regulations and compliance officers and grievances and charges. Anyone who is politically incorrect will either be kicked out or will see the light and depart on their own. There will be losses of earnings followed by consolidation and then government subsidies. Meanwhile, China will keep importing raw materials from us and selling us finished goods at a profit. We're colonizing ourselves.

"you'll find them mopping in the coffee houses."

Fixed it for ya.

I'd be afraid to hire anyone who takes any serious part in this stuff.

So, you admit to your blatant discrimination?

This'll come in handy in court.

(Gotta run this stuff by the lawyers first, Amy!)

Up twinkles?!

We're supposed to take these people seriously?

Note that at that meeting the NUS also "ruled" that white gay men would no longer be allowed to channel their inner black woman.

I'd say businesses small enough not to have HR dept's will avoid hiring women altogether at some point, based on the potential downside...

And those with HR's will become bloated larger bureaucracies that will eventually implode because of being non-competitive...

Ultimately a lot of rules will be made BY and FOR a very small group of people, and the rest of us will :massive-eyeroll: behind their backs.

I wonder how this will play out amongst plumbers unions, and longshoremen, and firefighters...

Ultimately I'd say much ado about nothing, but I know how this pernicious thing works...
I can't compliment any woman at work for fear of her taking it the wrong way, etc, etc...

I R A Darth Aggie,

Not only is "Jazz Hands" a literal cultural appropriation, but at the very same conference, the students voted to ask gay white men to stop their cultural appropriation of black women. (But they didn't ask that of gay black men, or white women.)

http://www.inquisitr.com/1953764/nus-women-conference-gay-white-men-should-stop-appropriating-black-women/

The problem is not the students. They are the symptom. The problem -- the sources of the rot -- are the professors, those ivory-tower "progressives" who are smugly attempting to destroy American institutions in the belief that something wonderful will spring from the ashes. Something wonderful -- where they are in charge, but only because that will be best for the "99%" -- whether they like it or not.

We would like to think that these folks are a minority, just quite vocal, and just in academic areas.

However, many of them are finding work! Yes, I have seen over the past several years a growth in the corporate world of "diversity educators" pushing all sorts of crap outside the academic world and in the for-profit corporate world.

And damned is the corporation that doesn't have some sort of "diversity" training or some other type of "exclusive" (read that as discriminatory) clubs. One for women of color, one for Black men, one for Asians, one for gays, one for Hispanics, etc. Just don't have one for "white males" that would be racist.

And the corporate world is falling over themselves to get the tax breaks or whatever it is they get for doing all this crap on company time with employees on the clock. And, don't you dare be the employee who does NOT show up and be a good sport while doing their stupid role-playing games.

They all go into academia or social work or non-profits, so it's not most of us will ever encounter any of them irl.

Jazz hands is ASL clapping and predates the occupy movement

My husband is a professor and I gotta say, I haven't seen any signs of wanting to take over the worl. He just wants the world to leave him alone so he can invent new ways to solve math problems. If the professors DO take over the world and rise from ashes, that would suck because he doesn't want to go into administration. Takes too much time from his research you see.

The problem is that they are getting employment at the administrative level and then make it impossible for the productive people (engineers, programmers, technicians, usually guys with social deficits) to do their work. End result is company either tanks or the work is off-shored, leaving administration intact, but tossing the workers onto the street. End result a subsidized politically correct administrative class, a lot of unemployed un PC men, and the Chinese manufacturers and exporters laugh all the way to the bank.