Don't make us bring back the draft, son.

In a sane world it would put him on a "No Hire" List. Unfortunately it makes him qualified for university counselor jobs, being a sensitivity trainer, university professor, a dozen other jobs in the education department, gov't worker, or democratic cause activist.

Tough call: Yo have 10 psychologists, where do you send them, to the sight of a train wreck or to students who ran into someone denying their ideology? One has to wonder how they handle fairy tales without a team of counselors. Probably the source of all this, no one ever read real fairy tales to them. And still they manage to half live in their own little imaginary worlds. Kudos.

Don't forget that he'll be hired at any ABBCNNBCBS outlet.

"If you can't handle a Milo Yiannopolous lecture without bursting into tears or needing counseling, you do not belong in college."

Ah, but maybe you *do* belong in college. Where else would you belong if you're this sensitive? You certainly don't belong on a construction crew. You couldn't handle the rejection inherent in being a salesperson. You couldn't possibly deal with the stress involved in being a pilot or an air traffic controller.

Maybe college today is, precisely, a reservation for the weak.

Since he feels so unsafe at Pitt - and with the wild parties that are soon to happen due to March Madness (whoever is playing, it's always the right time to tap a keg) his unsafe space will surely increase, I suggest that he immediately leave there and enter the a Trappist Monastery. Strict order, discipline and silence away from troubling views that may disturb his, would be just the place for him - and us, too, since we'd never have to listen to his drivel again.

"Maybe college today is, precisely, a reservation for the weak."

This fits with something I've been thinking recently: that there is a significant portion of the Millennial generation that is going to have to be institutionalized, because they are too mentally fragile and unstable to be able to care for themselves or earn a living. How large a number will this be: 20 million? 30 million? Society will be responsible for feeding and caring for them, for life. The legal and ethical complications to, in effect, commit this many people to institutions are going to be an enormous mess. And the cost, combined with existing entitlements, will drive government debt well past 100% of GDP -- a point at which economists generally consider that the economy is no longer viable.

a significant portion of the Millennial generation that is going to have to be institutionalized

They would find themselves very lucky if that came to pass.

Unfortunately, I fear they will not be so lucky. Whether it is a full-on collapse of Western Civilization, or merely a Depression style lost decade or three, only a wealthy, healthy nation can afford to institutionalize such a vast swath of its population.

Young fools, only now at the end do you understand.

"there is a significant portion of the Millennial generation that is going to have to be institutionalized, because they are too mentally fragile and unstable to be able to care for themselves or earn a living"

They may be in for an unpleasant surprise, when the pendulum swings back, as it inevitably does. I sincerely hope that paying people to do nothing - as in most modern welfare systems - will die out with the SJWs. This has been the most counterproductive concept ever introduced, and all with such lily white, pure intentions.

If they are so delicate that they cannot work, they will be hungry. When they are hungry enough, Maslow's hierarchy of needs will take over, and they will suddenly be able to work.

I don't know if "weak" or "fragile" really describe what's going on. In the first place, we don't really know how many vocal SJWs really inhabit our campuses; their noisiness may cause us to overestimate their numbers. In the second place, I suspect the people traumatized by Milo Yiannopoulos are the same ones who would be traumatized by their mothers' demands to eat their Lima beans.

They're not fragile. They're spoiled.

This has to be a hoax of some kind. Who raises kids to be this way by the time they reach college age? How did these people survive the back and forth ribbing and put down antics of the typical high school student?

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I don't necessarily fault the student for feeling uneasy or uncomfortable. Isn't the point of Milo's speech? To challenge old prejudices and stereotypes and shake up those who hold them?

But I do fault the student for likening his uncomfortable feelings to trauma and thinking he needs counseling for them.

I've had my beliefs shaken up many times, sometimes on this blog. What I do is rethink my positions and life goes on. I don't call my psychiatrist to have my meds adjusted or place an emergency call to my therapist because of it.

a_random_guy: ...and all with such lily white, pure intentions.

Actually, I don't think their intentions were pure at all. As Amy points out, it's about having unearned power over others.

I remember stopping by a monolith of a Christian church to see a demonstration by nuns and other people against General Rios Montt, former dictator of Guatemala who ordered the genocide of at least 25,000 indigenous people in order to lease their land to oil companies. Eventually he took his millions, fled Guatemala to find christianity. After sizable donations they found him too. He was there to speak of being "saved". The protesters put political prisoner masks in front of their faces, stood up and exited, singing "we shall overcome". The church told the good christians that the police were called on the protesters, and since I was a stranger, a guy burst into the bathroom, and ordered me & my bags of Famolare shoes ($15/pair moving sale). I can't imagine this Pitt student being anywhere in this tale. He'd feel unsafe in the audience, too timid to be a protester, or threaten the alleged off-duty cop who refused to show his badge when ordering me off the premises. Maybe people had to grow a tough outer shell when I was growing up, but this kid is like a hermit crab with no shell. Sadly, he isn't a rarity.

I can just imagine their response to the standard back and forth of a group of adult men. Teasing each other, insulting each other, making fun when one guy says something stupid. All friendly, but not "safe".

'...and all with such lily white, pure ' justifications.

Free this, and fair that all sound nice. But equal outcomes without equal opportunity or effort is certainly not just.

It's easy to criticize these kids, but keep in mind that this is largely a learned behavior. They're being encouraged to think and express themselves this way be their teachers and administrators.

Behind these students movements are University officials who are brainwashing their students and using them as pawns.

You don't really think that the administrators at Brown whipped up a 100MM diversity program overnight do you? - do you really believe that it was drawn up in response to student protests? - or more likely that the protests are being used as a pretext?

I don't know about using them as pawns. They are both certainly using each other. And the training goes way back before university. They got the same training from their high school, middle school, and grade school.

You don't turn into a self righteous snowflake over night. That takes years.

Unsafe? The last time I felt unsafe was on assignment in Belfast where people were beating garbage can lids on the sidewalk, waiting for British troops to roll up. i was 5 months pregnant, had a camera crew with me and needed to pee--that's "unsafe". Not sitting In a college auditorium.
These people need to grow up.

I agree with Joe J on this; instead of being put on the "no hire" list, this student has "beefed up"* his credentials for a whole host of other jobs so that he can continue to annoy everyone elsewhere.

* Yea, I know, "beefed up" is going to annoy someone somewhere.

This guy can go work for Coexist and get five days more off a month for his pain...