Pity the poor student activists at Ohio’s Oberlin College. As though succeeding in school were not hard enough, these students are facing an impossible dilemma: How can they possibly do well academically when so much of their time must be spent protesting the world’s injustices?
Well, they can’t.
But instead of turning to themselves in a noble effort to put their priorities in order, they are demanding that Oberlin administrators overhaul the college’s education system to meet their special needs. 1,300 students have signed a petition to force the college to do away with bad grades, turn written exams into casual conversations, and provide additional support for their ultra-important social justice battles.
“You know, we’re paying for a service,” one Oberlin student told The New Yorker. “We’re paying for our attendance here. We need to be able to get what we need in a way that we can actually consume it.”
It makes you think of that contact lens commercial where the guy talks about his “special eyes.” Our college campuses are filled to the brim with students who think they have special eyes. Special little needs that must be carefully met. They have become a weird hybrid: Part adult, part baby. At a time in life when humans typically crave independence, these students demand to be coddled.
One student named Zakiya Acey told the New Yorker that the college should not force him to take a written exam. “There’s professors who have openly been like, ‘Yeah, instead of, you know, writing out this midterm, come into my office and you can just speak it,’ right? But that’s not institutionalized,” he lamented. “I have to find that professor.”
There’s this kneejerk tendency to loathe these people, but the first line of this story wasn’t meant sarcastically. These students really do deserve our pity. They are too young and too ignorant to see the cold splash of reality waiting for them in a few short years, if not sooner. They say they want to change the world, but they really want the world to change for them. And if they can’t shake that mindset, their lives are going to be frustrating, angering, and depressing.
But if you can’t muster up any pity, don’t worry about it. They have more than enough of it for themselves.
Remove them from the campus. Teach them that there are consequences in life that they had better be prepared to accept.
Put them in the military. Both girls and boys. I can’t call them men and women because they act like babies. The military will straighten their ass up.
or label them as unfit for service… the better choice in my book. That will follow them for the rest of their lives into their jobs at McDonalds or wherever.
DAMN STRAIGHT!!!
But I’d like to to see them get shot at. Lol
Same here Bob; let them $hit their pants one time when a bullet zings by their empty little head, let them see that nobody has to play by their rules, nor will they!
Most will get shot in the back running away.
No one here is interested in you. Please just go away.
Lorriane, baby ! Knock it off with the stealing advertising !
This website should hunt you down and sue your chinsey ass for the commercial rate per line.
You are a thief !
Welfare, free handouts, we PAY to support Them…while they do as they please.
Solent green…
That’s a throwback comment.
It’s a little late for throwing them back, but I’m with you. Any way of disposing of rubbish is a good way.
It’s the obama way, don’t you know?
Sigh. But Sometimes I have to restate the obvious to get my frustrations at the situation out 🙂
Totally agree! Time to wake up kids! Life doesn’t just hand you your future you want. There are rules everyone needs to abide by. Quit acting like a bunch of spoiled brats!
Spoiled brats is being too kind. I can’t use my word because I’m talking to a lady here. But you’re right. They think life owes them.
Bunch of Demotards.
RIGHT ON!! I think they ought to bring back the draft–everyone should have to serve for two years–both males and females–THEN go to college—they’d be better equipped to handle the big bad world then!! They don’t all need to be on the front lines if there is conflict—small females who couldn’t carry 75 lbs. on her back as she only weighs 95 lbs. herself—but there are plenty of other jobs for them but they all need to serve in some capacity!
I’ve been preaching that for the past several years. Does anybody listen?? Hell no !! Making these immature “children” go into the military would not be within the agenda of the elitists who are running this country………………..into the ground I might add !!!
Me too—-and it might happen with Trump—we’ll need to increase our military greatly after Obozo has discriminated it! Take out the waste and fraud of all agencies to pay for the best military in the world—Obozo should be put in prison for what he’s done to this country!
Dinkerduo, Did auto-correct insert “discriminated” instead of “decimated” in your comment? I wouldn’t be at all surprised with all the cries of “Racism” that we hear everyday!
EEEEK—I don’t know—but it was probably just another of my typos–thanks for letting me know 🙂
Straight to Gitmo and waterboard him with pig blood until he tells the truth.
Even the ones in wheelchairs can work with the cyberhacking/computer unit. The only ones that should get a free pass are the ones with a mentality of less than a six year old
Don’t let the liberals off that easily.
I really was thinking of those that had an infant’s understanding/ mentality to be let off the draft but if they are smart enough to pick a candidate WITHOUT HAVING IT DONE FOR THEM, like is done in voting the graveyard, then they’re draftable
Fantastic comment Beeotchstewie! That was so great! Thank you
Thanks I was just stating the obvious. LOL.
Maybe pre Obama it would have, Not so sure after what he has done to make it so pro-gay, lesbian etc and completely anti-Christian.
Personally, as an old ‘Nam Marine, I’d not care to share my foxhole with any of them and the idea of trusting them to cover my back is ludicrous.
Thank you and bless you for your service. Welcome Home
These are not “Men and Women”.
They are punks and twats.
Here here, my friend, you said it! I remember when I was in the Army back in the sixties, these were the kind of low life’s that protested against everything back then as well. Now we all know damn well that these are the grand kids of those idiots and traitors from the 60s
They are the descendants of those disgraceful losers who spat on our soldiers after Vietnam. Ingrates.
Totally agree!
That suggestion would be doing them one of the greatest favors of their life, forcing them to come to grips with the consequences of their own actions. Generation cupcake is going to be in for a real surprise and the failure of the real adults to teach them about that is neglect on part of the adults.
These poor, poor snowflakes.
What kind of background do they come from, that made them into wusses so early in life ??
SMH
Its called ‘the public education system’, I doubt if any of these protesters could pass a basic 12th grade exam of50 years ago. They have been coddled by the system and built up with lies about how ‘deserving’ they are. And lets not forget the medias complication in this by broadcasting drivel in their programming which only fortifies this self centered notion that everything should revolve around them.
I hear yout comment about the education system. Thank you
My comment was directed to the parents of the snowflakes
Simply shocking
YOU MEAN BLACKS & CHINESE & WHATEVER. NO SNOWFLAKES DOING THE SCREAMING.
The Me Me generation, that gave them whatever they wanted, and also gave the participation trophies, for just being there. They never learned, to work, for what they desire.
Those doing the activating seem to be Asian, black, & whatever. Seems the “WHITE” students are standing there looking at the screamers as lunatics………….which they are. So why do they come to the USA for an education if the only thing they want to do is carry signs, riot, turn cars over, set fires. They are a disgrace to OUR USA, our Flag, and our GOOD CITIZENS.
Because Democrarts pay them to come here and cause unrest all for a vote.
Losers, all of them. They have been drinking the Socialist kool-aide.
KOOL-AIDE AND DOPE SO THEIR BRAINS ARE ALREADY FRIED. THEY THINK SOMEONE OWES THEM SOMETHING FOR BEING BORN. HARD WORK NEVER ENTERS THEIR MINDS AND THE WORD FREE IS AT THE TOP OF THEIR VOCABULARY.
Work is a dirty 4 letter word to them. I pity them, because they will never know the feeling of losing, and then coming back, even stronger, and WINNING!
Right below the biggest lie of all “reparations”
They will all vote for Sanders.
Do parents actually pay for their children to attend this so called college? It looks more like these are all on some kind of free full ride scholarship funded by George Soros. Something akin to the Karl Marx award for becoming a follower instead of a leader. I noticed a large percentage of minorities in the crowds of paid rioters. Does Oberlin admit Caucasian students?
THE USA WAS FOUNDED BY CAUCASIANS. THE BLACKS & ASIANS CAME LETTER MUCH TO THE MISTAKE OF THE USA. SHOULD HAVE SUNK THOSE SPANISH SHIPS CARRYING THE AFRICANS. SHOULD NEVER HAVE LET THE ASIANS SET FOOT ON OUR SOIL BEING THAT THEY THINK THEY SHOULD CHANGE OUR USA.
The Spanish were not the only ones bringing the slaves over and not all slaves were black
We might want to take a look at who is teaching them this crap. Start with the professors in charge.
Actually; we need to start with the public ‘education’ system from which they came. I doubt if any one of them has had any real education concerning the Constitution and the hardships faced by our forefathers in establishing this nation!
“…..signed a petition to force the college to do away with bad grades, turn written exams into casual conversations, and provide additional support for their ultra-important social justice battles.”
In a world where the criteria for law are not universally recognized, the “diversity” of opinions, beliefs, human differences and individual personality factors being the principal reasons for the lack of such universal recognition, the imposition of law in order to attain a recognition of all those diversity factors is not possible. Did these kids go to college to learn or to teach?
It is interesting that kids of 17-21 years of age have a youthful idealism, not informed by experience, which is exhibited in “activism,” protest and demonstration. Is it that they do not wish to have to impose the rule of law or that they do not want the rule of law imposed on them? When they have that figured out, perhaps, we will understand what parts of the education and political systems need to be changed to accommodate the chaos which is apparent in the activism and protest and demonstrations against the injustice of the law (simple obedience to it) which seems to be the principal reason for objections among college-aged students.
Hand your petition to ISIS and see what their reaction is! But, be ready to deal with the reaction, on your own, with no help from “the system.”
Well, what do you know, must be the same little shits that are the grand kids of the little shits from the 60s!
I graduated from high school in 1950 and that summer my father lined up a job in a steel mill for me, He had 2 reasons, he wanted me to learn that working as a laborer in a steel mill was not what I would like to do for a living. Second, I was to make the money to pay for my college education. By having to work to pay for my education, let me know that I better get the most out of it and learn to improve my abilities. We had 3 sons and told them that they would have to work themselves to pay for their own educations.
GREAT MAN>YOUR DAD. Made you a better man for it….This is the RIGHT way! This is how I was raised…WHAT you want YOU will work for! There is too much nonsense in higher ed. now….
I was a year ahead of you, so you also experienced rationing and the “inconvenience” of WWII, you most likely, like me,brought your kids up,that nothing was owed them,and If they wanted something bad enough,then get a job and earn money to buy it, my boys started with paper routes, girls baby sat,
We only have ourselves (and our weak kneed politicians) to blame for all of this. If we would have voiced our opposition to the way kids were being taught in the public schools; been ready and willing to boycott any and all programming which enforced the idea of entitlement; and enacted laws to get rid of college “professors” who pushed a socialist agenda, perhaps we could have avoided these kind of misfits!
What needs to be institutionalized is these pitiful, decadent and degenerate products of government-run education and a culture debased by marxists and metrosexuals. It is time to defund these marxist madrassahs, put the lumpenprofessoriat to work on the infrastructure and offer the wimps, whiners and wankers the options of work, a western education suitable for work or scholarship or the military.
If they focused on getting a good education, maybe they will realize that they are on the wrong side of the issues.
How to make college worthless
It became ‘worthless’ over 50 years ago, when they decided to indoctrinate, rather than Educate!!!
‘Dumbing down’ has never stopped, but gotten worse!
Speeding all that money to be a ……
In my day at the Univ. we were there to learn, not party. These children, yes I called them children, have never been taught responsible behavior by their parents. College admin. should insist that they attend class, take their exams. If not kick them out on their butts. The same goes for these so called profs. Teach or get out.
Kick the little brats out into the world…BUT with the way our “system” has become, they would just get “rewarded” with their very own EBT card, welfare benefits, and still be on the Taxpayers dime. (more time to “protest”)
Scratch Oberlin College graduates from acceptable with the HR department.
Kids don’t run the world…You can allow civil protest and the right to an opinion…However these are suppose to be places of learning, education for those fortunate enough to be able to attend…The liberals are turning our younger generation into a bunch of whining snots…
Stop all student loans, if they have to work full or part time to pay tuition they won’t have time for the activism
Even in the ’60’s students had to do the course work and pass exams to get their degrees. Today’s college and university administrators have to stand up to these snowflakes and tell them that they are there to get an education. They can be activists as well but they still have to do the course work to get their degree. If the student doesn’t like it, tough then the kid needs to grow up.
OHHHHHHH!! The !!PANTYWAIST MFER’S!!!!!
How did the professors allow this to happen ? Liberal Ideology preached on a daily basis probably , I’m not sure however these ideas didn’t all just enter these students minds the minute they entered the classroom, this is carefully planned to brainwash these poor simpleminded children who think the World owes them a living just because they read a few books and penned a few essays.
Preparation for what awaits them has been abandoned by the News media allowing and spreading the one sided messages to be absorbed into the immature minds spewed out into their ears by an administration immersed in “Hope and Change” for the Worse instead of Better. No Work Ethics, No progress except Downhill, because Unlike the 72 Virgin mirage out there somewhere in Space , they have a vision of some institution or business taking them in and supporting them because they are different !
Well that they are , different than people who work for a living and don’t accept handouts from the Government and expect to be taken care of and coddled because of this Horrible , Horrific Beast called Political Inequity whereby their bathrooms cannot be shared because of sexual differences , How Dare Society dictate to these “Educated Persons” how and where they can be exposed to the opposite sex ? What a shame this has become , where through some silly idea that a dictator has put forth as a misdirection or distraction from the real problems of the world has taken such a hold on the minds of “the Future of America”
these so called “Students” feel that they have now become the “Teachers”
This is only a small part of the problem , since the professors need to be educated themselves as to what these “Students” are really facing if they ever do graduate, so they can begin preparing for reality as it exists , waiting for them !
BTW All Lives Matter…………………………….
Rush Limbaugh said it best. Our schools (public education system) are “DUMBING DOWN” our youth!! When you have public schools teaching “creative spelling,” (spell the word the way it sounds–example–enough=enuf) eliminating “cursive handwriting,” (people now cannot sign their own name to any legal document, check, credit card, or receipt, etc.–they have to print it, or for that matter can’t READ A LETTER THAT GRANDMA WROTE because they don’t understand the scribbles on the paper) the “new math” of common core, and that the world OWES them a living, a home, and so on, it’s no wonder that our Country is falling apart!! AND I NEVER WOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF TAKING PART IN “SIGNING” SUCH A STUPID PETITION!! When I was a youngster in school, I was taught to SPELL CORRECTLY, TO WRITE CORRECTLY, (so I could be identified by my signature, and be able READ AND UNDERSTAND WHAT OTHERS HAD WRITTEN) and I was taught BASIC MATH without the use of calculators and/or computers, and I WAS NOT TAUGHT the new “common core math” which complicates a simple problem so that even parents (who were taught correctly) can’t make head or tail out of it!! Kids now days have extreme computer skills by the time they are in grade school, and while that may not be the worst thing in the world, they have lost the ability to figure things out using their minds, and a pencil and paper!! Again, the DUMBING DOWN of our young people, and BRAIN WASHING them with the idea that they “should not” be “forced” to take a written exam, or take the time to learn the very basics that everyone should know!! The examples of creative spelling and so on, is just plain laziness on the part of our educators if you ask me!!
give them A’s for each hour of protesting NOT. flunk the little snotts
These little sissies have no business stinking up college classrooms in the first place. As John Wayne said “Life is hard and it’s even harder if you are stupid” and these lazy loafers are definitely in the stupid stage. Many of these crybabies have been welfare children and are used to doing nothing and being paid for it so this is an extension of this way of life.
That student are wrong who must accept rules College have or simple, leave. left start using student for political reason, was use in a past in many Country, but student must NOT involve in politic, go to study or get out. Socialist are so much dishonest and dirty, that why be will a big puge next years, all socialist be will cease of exist, one time and for good.
This is what happens if you let the inmates run the asylum. Tell them quietly but firmly their attendance in class is mandatory as is completion of assignments.
If they fail then expel and remove them from campus.
Who knows, there may actually be students who came to learn remaining.
Why bother educating them since they already know everything just give or sell them a diploma and let them go their way. THEY ARE WHY OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM IS FAILING . Lets see how far they get when they can’t even get a real job.Can’t fill out job registeration,because they don’t know how to write.
most colleges now a days are nothing but cesspools.
they must be teaching homosexuality and trans this and that.
whatever happened to culture, science, tradition, etc?
All future welfare recipients!
Why not do away with final tests. We let people people come in to our country with no questions asked.
Dumb ni&&ers, can’t fit the bill so do away with it! What a bunch of A-Holes!
Get an education or go home to mommy. There are kids out there that want to learn and get ahead. As for the military, as has been mentioned… why not a 2 year compulsory draft, no exemptions right out of high school.. They can learn a trade, Our national defense will improve and they can go to school on the GI Bill.
Studies getting in the way of activism? Quit school. Become a full time activist.
Snowflakes – turn the heat up – melt them
Where are their parents paying for this ? Their too stupid to know that their funds can be cut off from parents are the people of this country . By the way these stupid so called educated people are signing petitions to get rid of the 1st amendment ?Does anybody out there really want these people doing or working for you When they graduate ? Don’t send your sons and daughters to higher learning schools or public ones either . Statistics show they are still living with mom and dad until their late thirties . No wonder ! They can’t see what color or what sex they are ! Da !
Close down Oberlin College. Or have Pest Control remove those nasty little sniveling, baby like critters. Sorry, THEY do not deserve an education, but a good butt whipping! Whiney little pests!
When are Colleges going to stand up for their individual Principles? Oberlin’s Corporate people need to regroup and provide a solid front of rules and laws of that school and tape them to those students foreheads.
But with the majority of the students being Black, and obama coddling and breast feeding them, what do you expect? He has created the perfect Black Infestation with its own “Entitlement” gene, with plenty of whining and temper tantrums to go with.
JUST FAIL THEM ALL AND REMOVE THEM FROM THE SCHOOL GROUNDS. WHY? Because when the Real World hits them right between the eyes, they are going to run and hide anyway because this World will eat them for breakfast!
I would BET that every one of those little twits that signed that petition are taking LIBERAL SOCIALIST Courses such as black/women studies, journalism, fine arts, puppet making and basket weaving.; NOTHING that requires ANY intelligence, effort or study and very little intelligence. What’s sad is they STILL cant make passing grades, hence the desire to end failing grades and mid-term/final exams. Kick them ALL out, draft the males and refuse ebt cards to the females and no money for having multiple little bastards.
Yet it is pretty clear that your own life has been a matching stream of bad decisions and festering crotch rot.
They get in the college to learn what college can offer but not for them to come and dictate to the school. If they can’t deal with it then they are not ready for college and they should leave until they are ready to face reality.
These kids are mature enough to be in college—there ought to be a test of maturity to get in in the first place!! They must be taught that they have to follow someone else’s RULES since they have been babied from birth—but they are being led by the uber left who are teaching them nonsense in college!
The really scary part of this remains the fact these are this countries future leaders.
I love the last two lines of this article!
Round up EVERY ONE of these assholes and ship their asses to Iran and see how long they last there. I am so sick of these winning cry babies I’m getting to the point that I can’t stand young people anymore. Someone should slap the shit out of all of them and make them understand that, the world dose not owe them anything.
Why did they enter college/university if all they wanted to do was be active in riots, etc. etc. Either they get an education or go back to their native heritage. Those that are activating their violence appear to be foreign or black. Other “WHITE” students are just standing around looking at them like they are lunatics………….WHICH THEY ARE.
Dodo birds!
Whose paying? Them? Or Mommy and Daddy?
The parents need to have a REALLY LONG discussion exactly what college is about, and how much they are paying for it. Then, they need to explain the way of the world, the world doesn’t change for you, YOU CHANGE for the world.
would not hire a millinial college grad school is supposed tio be a thought exchange proccess but its just a bunch of whinny little crybabys that need safe places and cont do thier exams because of false stress they only know how to do things one way and cant be innovative or creat new methods because these schools arent doing their jobs to prepare them for the future its truly a lost generation
Colleges are used to brainwash the youth of today.Liberalism is one of the most dangerous thinking processes in the world today.It teaches our kids not to be Americans with American values.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Friggin’ crybabies!
Remember folks, these people will be leading this country someday. These people vote!
and these are the idiots that will vote socialist hitlery & bernie for free college.
Professors in our Universities are ruining our young people by forcing students into Leftist Views to pass classes. Many of these professors belong behind bars for being UNAMERICAN TRAITORS.
Wow, is that what they learned so far! Bad grades are to be discarded. Test are to be a matter of conversation. They fight social injustices. “We’re paying for a service”, does that include learning? “We’re paying for our attendance here”, now we’re getting to the point. They want to “ATTEND” college, with no tests, no bad grades, and have more time to pursue “social injustices”. So is the college obligated to give them a diploma. Apparently so, since they will be ALL EQUAL in their EDUCATION. I’m sorry I’m not of college age anymore. Would have loved to get the same grade as all my classmates. I was born too early, which is the fault of my dearly departed parents. I would have loved to attend the class where they learn to change their diapers. Give me a good looking girl, not a guy.
More proof that most Colleges and Universities in this Country have been, and are, nothing but brainwashing camps for world socialism.
You know where to find sympathy you young indoctrinated fools? Right between shit and syphilis in the dictionary, another thing I am completely sure they have never had the occasion to use, like their brains.
Actually, the author is wrong. They really do deserve to be loathed, as do their parents and school officials who are enablers.
Show all of those students the door so they can protest all they want.
Unless they have changed the law every American has a 7 year obligation to serve the country. I believe everyone should serve at least 2 years in the military before going to college.
This was considered unconstitutional. SO it was removed…
Drop out of college. You DON’T deserve the education!
Get a REAL job. Get a REAL life and pay bills for a while while the IRS takes your hard earned $$$ away from you. Then see how EASY you currently have it now.
# GROW UP AND DEAL WITH IT!
I lay all of this at the feet of Obozo. Communist turd.
“We are paying for a service…” the service they are paying for is to be educated and become future leaders. This just shows that our future is screwed.
It is the Leftist College Professors that do not teach students proper American History. The University Professors are purposefully dumbing down students, making them feel entitled instead of teaching them that working for what they want is the best way to be prosperous. These University Professors (Leftist) should all be fired.
You dumb S**ts, What are you doing in school? Obviously you didn’t go to learn anything. How many of you went on grants, or scholarships, or even put yourselves in debt for years with a student loan? You are wasting all of it. You can be an activist on the streets. Trust me, there are a myriad of socialist community organizers ready to take advantage of your gullibility. Stop taking up time and space which could be used by students who really want to get an education
I always thought the purpose of going to college was to get an education, A degree which is a pass port to a better life. Not to socialize with protestors and demonstrating for or against whatever was popular at the moment. If they want to be social activist, then quit school and do it full time and see how much money you make doing it. Maybe when you get hungry you might decide it’s not worth it.
I only have one thing to say to these spoiled imature babies. “If you were my son or daughter, and I was paying your college tuition, and I found out that you were making demands on an education that you don’t even fund, I would stop paying your way and you would be on your own. Students demanding such stupid things should open their eyes because when the real world hits you right in the face it has no mercy, no negociation, and no exception because you demand it. Parents wake up and stop funding such stupidity.