Therein lies the difference between college experience of the 1980's & 90's and what it is today. It will get worse when it filters down to the High Schools, robbing them of any skill needed to become self-aware.

The weirdest part of it is that there is a race to claim a position of the most extreme "powerlessness".The one with the most -ists, wins the argument. Not on merits or anything, just because being the most offended is being granted the most power to silence others.

It will be interesting to see if it runs its logical course and we have tribunals running in academia for thoughtcrime

Hey MrScience, so polite of you to elide past the geology that marble is formed by subjecting carbonate rock to high pressure and temperature.
Back on topic - I'm continually offended by crypussy behavior. Why don't my hurt feelings count for anything? Where's my movement? When do I get to pick a personal pronoun?
I hope all this fades away like Werner Erhard and est therapy.

Canvasback, thanks -- I actually know that but wrote this wrong. I was thinking of polishing rocks with sand -- I have one here from a dear departed friend, and I had a rock polishing kit as a kid.

Going to change that in the post.

Thanks for the correction.

Version before change:

In fact, dissent makes us better, same as sanding turns a rock to marble but throwing a sponge at it a couple of times just leaves a wet mess on the floor in front of it.

Within a few short weeks, members of my freshman class had quickly assimilated to this new way of non-thinking. They could soon detect a politically incorrect view and call the person out on their "mistake." I began to voice my opinion less often to avoid being berated and judged by a community that claims to represent the free expression of ideas. I learned, along with every other student, to walk on eggshells for fear that I may say something "offensive."

That being true, they certainly aren't going to get much of an education there when there is so much knowledge and thought that they're not permitted to even be aware of. And yet knowing that, they'll continue to tolerate that and walk on eggshells for the full four years. Do they value the education as much as they do the credential?

Kira is slow. She should have learned that in junior high.

And MrScience, too late. It already has.

Thoughtcrime trials for badthoughts?

https://www.adflegal.org/detailspages/case-details/adams-v.-trustees-of-the-university-of-north-carolina-wilmington

When it all goes bad, the SJWs will whine, "We just wanted things to be nice for everyone!" No, they didn't. They are Cluster B's, and Cluster B's have the ability to lie through their teeth and sleep soundly at night. Political correctness is not an unfortunate side effect of good intentions. Everything that's happening at Smith, and other schools, is going according to plan.

Guess what happens when College Republicans post a sign saying "Safe spaces are for children"?

http://redalertpolitics.com/2016/10/27/safe-spaces-children-liberals-triggered-college-republicans-sign/

I'm not sure how you equate that with wanting to put people in gas chambers, but whatevs. I'll chip in to a fund to send those ninnies on an all expenses paid trip to the leading countries of the Middle East.

Lagarde is arguably the most influential woman in the financial world, excelling in what has always been a male-dominated field.

Actually, this is false. Lagarde is an apparatchik, a transnational careerist floating on Europe's sea of unaccountable, parasitic quasi-government organizations. The only thing Kira Barrett missed by not hearing Lagarde speak was being propagandized by a a communizing elitist.

Amy, I thought it sounded like a miscue. Are you done with the book yet so we can have your full attention? Just kidding.

By the time many people get through high school, they have met their share of people who seemed to go out of their way to piss them off, even to the point that they would spout unpopular views they didn't actually agree with. You get accustomed to the concept that if someone, even someone you admire, says something that pisses you off, they said it solely for that purpose. By the time you get to college, you'd hoped that you had left all those people behind in high school. But here come very successful people to speak at school, and they're going to say something that pisses you off. You think, "If all they want to do is come here and piss me off, why are they coming here at all?"

What puzzles me is that when I was at university, if someone got in my face the way I see SJWs on YouTube getting in people's faces and physically getting in the way, how are people *not* replying in kind... i.e. with violence? Sometimes pushing back really is the best way to handle things.

Because you will be punished and they will not Perry. The SJWs have the complete support of the administration. When they take over school facilities it is with the permission of the administration. Try any of these tactics while exposing right wing ideas and you will be kicked out.

Ben has it. Their world is the world of droit de signeur. Whether an action is right or wrong is determined not by what the action is, but by who is doing it.