Some exchanges not in the video in the OP start at 4:12. The poor guy is trying to explain the concept of free speech, which these Yale-educated nitwits can't comprehend. At one point another girl (yes girl, not woman) goes totally ballistic.




Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6ZVEVufWFI

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
I cannot imagine ever speaking to one of my professors, any teacher, or for that matter any adult at all, in such a manner during my entire education.

This is all about wearing halloween costumes indicative of another race/ethnicity/group? And this professor said it was OK? That's all this is about?

Yale sent out a list of guidelines/rules about what students should not/could not wear as costumes. The professor's wife wrote an open letter arguing that administration should not micro-manage the situation, and that adults should be able to dress themselves. She argued that if you someone is wearing something that you find offensive, you should engage that person in discussion and explain why it is offensive and insensitive to you. It is better than expecting administration to police free speech and free expression.

The students in the video argued that Yale is their home while they are matriculated there, and they want an environment that protects them from being offended. They'll get a big wake-up call when they enter the real world.

If you can't understand fundamental concepts like those outlined by the BoR, or can't hold an intelligent, data supported debate without emotional outbursts, or can't maintain a mature composure especially in public, WTF are you doing at a university?

These should be grounds for expulsion. Too closed minded and immature to actually benefit from the institution. Let someone else benefit. Especially if she's there not by merit but some other qualification (yes, I profiled a bit, so what?).

I hope her name gets posted everywhere so that future potential employers fully realize who she is.

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Originally posted by konata88:
... Especially if she's there not by merit but some other qualification (yes, I profiled a bit, so what?).

I hope her name gets posted everywhere so that future potential employers fully realize who she is.

It's not just she, singular. There are many so-called students confronting the prof, and many more making faces, gasping, snapping, etc. I hope this video haunts them.

As a side note, notice the (minority) Asian students, all of whom no doubt got there in spite of "affirmative action" against them, didn't seem so upset at the prof.

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Originally posted by iron chef:

They'll get a big wake-up call when they enter the real world.

Ah the real world. I’ll give you an example of that. I’m Catholic and attend holy days of obligation. You or someone else reading this may hate the church, that’s your prerogative. My boss always is informed if I have to attend during working hours and I make the time up. So ash wednesday, I’m walking into the office at about 9:30am. A newer emplyeee in my group, a millennial, and a 70 something gentleman, also in my group are standing in front of my row (cubes) blocking access to my desk. I’ve got a stack of work, busy morning, and I just want to get to my desk, fire up my machine and do my job. They block access and proceed to say “You’ve got something on your forehead” and the millennial starts smiling, and instigating. I inform them both that I’d like to get to my desk, at which point the millennial repeats. I say to both of them that’s it’s Ash Wednesday, which leads to deer in head lights. They had no idea of what they are talking about or anything else. Still blocking access I wrestle my way through and say “You’ll be alright gentiles” as a joke. I log in, and apparently the millennial is fuming. He goes back to his desk, lights me up on IM, and proceeds to state how I offended him, how he doesn’t like religious talk or something, and how uncomfortable I made him feel. His excuse was he thought maybe I was working on one of my motorcycles before work or something at which point I ask him who does that? Gets up hours before their job, gets greasy working in the garage? This goes on for quite a while, millennial hurt feelings and such. and then he says “I’m not gonna go to HR or X (our mutual boss) and do anything about it.” I’m sitting there reading it, laughing. That’s a threat from a cowardly bitch that started it in the first place. At this point I simply state it was not my intent and cut him off, and close the window. I tell my boss about it, word for word as I don’t play at work or with my job. We both laugh as we both knew company policy is you do not talk about a person’s personal appearance. So both of those clowns committed a HR violation while the millennial was accusing me of one. We have to take annual training, and I guess millennial forgot about this company policy. When annual training comes up, and is complete. I ask him if he took it and completed his. He didn’t say anything. He was in an entry level position and within weeks of starting he went to my boss’s boss with a list he had made out of what he thought needs to change. That didn’t go over well
He then left within a year because he “felt” he wasn’t moving up the ladder quick enough.
It was like a month and he was schmoozing, trying, with extremely highly experienced personnel to get in with them and move up. He was running around mouthing about this cert he had, bragging, when the people he was bragging to had the cert equivalent of a phd while he had basically an associates. The day I learned of him turning in his notice was a great day. You had to watch everything you said around him, because one wrong word, or something taken the wrong way you knew he would be off to HR crying.

To this day I marvel at how fragile these people are. Companies everywhere must be having a field day with these people entering into the work force. From what I hear from colleagues in management positions, they are none too pleased. It is indeed a very frail generation who constantly need to be reminded how special and important they are. Older folks having to pick up their slack (from what I hear this generation doesn’t work too hard) and can’t say anything about it.

In public I’ve already been in multiple situations where myself or my friends have said something that offends these folks. We laugh at them each time and tell them to “call the cops and see what response you get.” My goodness the entitlement is off the charts. When we had the gas shortage after Harvey I was eating and overheard a table of them completely freaking out over a few days to one week of inconvenience. They’ve grown up in an on demand, instant gratification, instant shipping, living in the web lifestyle and know nothing of pain, sacrifice, or thick skin. Pardon the lengthy reply, I’m sick of them.

What I saw was a racist mob.

They might be snowflakes individually, but grouped together they were definitely enjoying their ability to intimidate this guy.

It amazes me how 'hurt' these kids can be by the words of others and yet they continue to be smug, aggressive, and belligerent when dishing out the hurtful words to the old white guy.

And here I thought--- all this time, that Halloween costumes were supposed to be scary and colleges a place to develop intellect.

That video shows the consequences of people not being able to think but rather, digesting and regurgitating information without the ability to distinguish between correctness and incorrectness.

In other circles, that girl would be referred to as "fodder".

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Originally posted by iron chef:

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
I cannot imagine ever speaking to one of my professors, any teacher, or for that matter any adult at all, in such a manner during my entire education.

This is all about wearing halloween costumes indicative of another race/ethnicity/group? And this professor said it was OK? That's all this is about?

Yale sent out a list of guidelines/rules about what students should not/could not wear as costumes. The professor's wife wrote an open letter arguing that administration should not micro-manage the situation, and that adults should be able to dress themselves. She argued that if you someone is wearing something that you find offensive, you should engage that person in discussion and explain why it is offensive and insensitive to you. It is better than expecting administration to police free speech and free expression.

The students in the video argued that Yale is their home while they are matriculated there, and they want an environment that protects them from being offended. They'll get a big wake-up call when they enter the real world.

OK, I read an article recently about multiple colleges sending out "rules" for halloween costumes, basically banning dressing up as another race or ethnicity. So no native American headdresses, no asian pointed hats, no blackface, etc. So if anyone who is not of eastern European slavic origin, or Romanian particularly, dresses up as Count Dracula, have they violated the rules?

The professor is a rational person that seems to be trying to explain that free speech is protected, regardless of others feelings. If you are offended, you should speak to that person rationally and explain your position such that they may understand. He has made the mistake of trying to use rational arguments on irrational people. That doesn't work. I've made the same mistake - logic, reason, and facts simply do not work on irrationals.

It's interesting that someone in the crowd mentioned "gaslighting" which is a term for the behavior of "cluster B" personality disorders such as Narcissistic and Borderline personality disorder, where they do or say something and then insist later it didn't happen. The emotional behavior of the crowd shows more signs of personality disorders than the professor. Projection of their emotions onto the Professor's intent is classic disordered behavior.

Edited to add:

It's not about creating an intellectual space, it's about creating a home". Ummm, sorry but I think you are missing the entire point of a University...

I guess what both fascinates and disgusts me about this particular incident is how it encapsulates so much of what's wrong with so many young people today. In this one scenario you have:

• Snowflakes galore (I'm special! My feelings are the most important thing ever!)
  
• My hurt feelings mean you must be racist.
  
• Identity politics (Your skin color disqualifies you from understanding me or empathizing with me.)
  
• Virtue signaling (If I snap my fingers, or scream at you, everyone will see how right and brave I am.)
  
• Offensive (to me) speech is NOT allowed.
  
• Speech is violence (you caused me pain!)
  
• Affirmative action, I strongly suspect.
  
• And of course, the left eating their own.
  

I believe this was the "high water mark" of the liberal, safe space, social justice warrior faggotry.




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/oss7KmiHLmA