Do you know what Stepford students are? This article by Brendan O’Neill explains:
They’re everywhere. On campuses across the land. Sitting stony-eyed in lecture halls or surreptitiously policing beer-fuelled banter in the uni bar. They look like students, dress like students, smell like students. But their student brains have been replaced by brains bereft of critical faculties and programmed to conform. To the untrained eye, they seem like your average book-devouring, ideas-discussing, H&M-adorned youth, but anyone who’s spent more than five minutes in their company will know that these students are far more interested in shutting debate down than opening it up.
Stepford students demand the ‘right to feel comfortable’. Their eyes “glazed with moral certainty”, they demand ‘safe spaces’ – spaces where no student would feel threatened or unwelcome. They seek safety from words, ideas, Zionists, ‘blurred lines’, Nietzsche etc. This new generation of students believe that self-esteem is more important than everyone else’s liberty to speak up their mind. At some universities, like Brown University, ‘safe spaces’ have been set up so that students can take refuge from ‘disturbing ideas’.
Now comes the greatest part: the concept of ‘safe spaces’ has been discussed in South Park’s latest episode. It is hilarious!
This is why I intentionally tell offensive jokes and make fun of sacred cows when I first meet people. Sometimes being subtle, like just talking about Bruce Jenner instead of referring to him as Caitlyn, will do the trick. If they clam up and look like they’re searching for a safe space, I know they’re not going to be terribly interesting.
😀 I also like to make fun of false idols subtly, just to see how people respond. It can tell you how open-minded people are, and whether it would be interesting to have rational conversations with them.
Rational is the ket word.
Wait until they leave home and find out there is no safe space.
Now you can’t wear most Halloween costumes. …I’m thinking black face needs to make a comeback just to annoy these bratty “students.”
Yeah, political correctness is killing all the fun. Who is ‘black face’ btw?
I just saw this article, and had to think about your comment: https://reason.com/blog/2015/11/06/watch-students-tell-yale-to-fire-a-staff