Not even former &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; writers are safe from the Ivy-League PC crowds.
Nimesh Patel, comedian, Emmy Award nominated writer, and the first Indian-American writer for SNL (he no longer writes for the show), was performing stand-up comedy last Friday for an event hosted by Columbia University&#8217;s Asian American Alliance (AAA). But mid-set, the 32-year-old was removed from the stage because his jokes were making some audience members uncomfortable.
The event was called cultureSHOCK: Reclaim, but apparently attendees neither wanted a shock nor to reclaim anything, as Patel&#8217;s treatment shows.
Patel&#8217;s set focused on his experiences growing up in a diverse neighborhood in New York City, <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2018/12/01/student-organizers-boot-snl-writer-from-stage-during-standup-routine-for-jokes-deemed-offensive-2/">according to the student newspaper the Columbia Spectator</a>. But when he made a joke about a gay, black man he knew growing up, things turned sour. Patel joked that being gay couldn&#8217;t possibly be a choice because &#8220;no one looks in the mirror and thinks, &#8216;this black thing is too easy, let me just add another thing to it.&#8217;&#8221;
The Spectator reported that 30 minutes into Patel&#8217;s set, AAA members &#8220;interrupted the performance, denounced his jokes about racial identities and sexual orientation, and provided him with a few moments for closing remarks.&#8221; The report added that Patel&#8217;s jokes about sexual orientation received fewer laughs from the audience.
Patel stood his ground when asked to leave. He said he identified with Asian Americans, insisted his jokes weren&#8217;t offensive, and that these ideas were found &#8220;in the real world.&#8221; This was too much for the Columbia snowflakes, and Patel&#8217;s microphone was cut.
The event, according to the Spectator is &#8220;an annual charity showcase featuring a fashion show, productions by various student groups and a famous performer, aims to provide a platform for Asian American artistic expression and breakthrough harmful stereotypes.&#8221; Apparently, &#8220;artistic expression&#8221; actually means &#8220;carefully censored politically correct expression,&#8221; and &#8220;breakthrough harmful stereotypes&#8221; actually means &#8220;don&#8217;t mention any harmful stereotypes.&#8221;
Columbia freshmen Adam Warren agreed with AAA&#8217;s decision to remove Patel.
&#8220;The message they were trying to send with the event was opposite to the jokes he was making, and using people&#8217;s ethnicity as the crux of his jokes could be funny but still offensive &#8230; He definitely wasn&#8217;t the most crass comedian I&#8217;ve ever heard but for the event it was inappropriate,&#8221; he told the Spectator.
Not all audience members were offended (so there is still some hope for humanity). Elle Ferguson, a freshman at Columbia&#8217;s sister school Barnard College, said she wasn&#8217;t offended by Patel&#8217;s set.
&#8220;While what some of the things that he said might have been a bit provoking to some of the audience, as someone who watches comedy a lot, none of them were jokes that I hadn&#8217;t heard before and none of them were jokes that elicited such a response in my experience,&#8221; Ferguson told the Spectator. &#8220;[AAA] should have talked to him beforehand especially because comedy is known for being ground-breaking and for pushing boundaries.&#8221;
Naturally, at least one student had to insist the current politically correct movement &#8211; which labels opposing ideas and unpopular facts as &#8220;hate speech&#8221; &#8211; is making the world a better place.
&#8220;I really dislike when people who are older say that our generation needs to be exposed to the real world. Obviously the world is not a safe space but just accepting that it&#8217;s not and continuing to perpetuate the un-safeness of it&#8230; is saying that it can&#8217;t be changed,&#8221; said freshman Sofia Jao. &#8220;When older generations say you need to stop being so sensitive, it&#8217;s like undermining what our generation is trying to do in accepting others and making it safer.&#8221;
An earlier version of this article implied Patel still writes for SNL. He has not written for the show since last season.

SNL Writer Removed From Stage For ‘Offensive’ Jokes At Columbia University

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Social Justice

Those who stayed up on election night 2016 remember the images of Hillary Clinton supporters crying and screaming and political commentators claiming that the country was doomed &#8212; women and minorities especially.
Celebrities are apparently still dramatizing their feelings over that night for sympathy, as actress Amber Tamblyn did on Sunday at her &#8220;Feminist AF&#8221; reading at Vulture Fest. Those attending the reading no doubt found her account of post-election night panic horrifying and all too real, while the rest of us sane people hear these kinds of histrionics and roll our eyes.
The Hollywood Reporter (THR) framed Tamblyn&#8217;s reading as an &#8220;<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/amber-tamblyn-previews-political-new-memoir-era-ignition-1162093">emotional story</a>&#8221; about election night. The story was exactly what we&#8217;ve come to expect from entitled millennials who turn every feeling into some sort of crime against nature.
Tamblyn read from her upcoming political memoir Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution, which details her &#8220;political awakening,&#8221; according to THR. She was the last reader of the night, and recalled spending election night with actress America Ferrera and &#8220;comedian&#8221; Amy Schumer. Singer Katy Perry was also there (obviously, these women face grueling oppression). Tamblyn was pregnant with her daughter at the time, and described her realization that Clinton might not win the presidency.
&#8220;I swigged some more Zantac, and my baby shoved her foot into my ribs, as if to foreshadow the pain that was yet to come,&#8221; Tamblyn read, according to THR.
She realized Clinton had definitely lost when her campaign chairman, John Podesta, said Clinton wasn&#8217;t going to speak to the crowd at Javits Center that night.
&#8220;A dark realization swallowed me: I was going to bring a baby into this world. And not just any baby: a girl,&#8221; Tamblyn read. She also said she imagined giving her daughter to Canadians or Swedes to protect her from whatever damage she believed President Donald Trump would do to the country (as of this writing, Tamblyn has not given her daughter away for political reasons).
The day after the election, Tamblyn said, she was at a subway station and started experiencing pain and shortness of breath. She said she collapsed, and a &#8220;homeless man&#8221; offered to cut the umbilical cord if she was going into labor.
It turns out, Tamblyn was just having a self-induced panic attack because her preferred candidate lost.
&#8220;How can I keep her safe?&#8221; Tamblyn said she asked her doctor about the baby after the attack. Tamblyn said the doctor suggested listening to a one-minute recording each day to remind her of their bond. She then played a one-minute recording of her daughter&#8217;s heartbeat for the audience.
The &#8220;Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants&#8221; actress ultimately gave birth to her daughter and still resides in America with her husband, &#8220;Arrested Development&#8221; actor David Cross.

DRAMA QUEEN: Actress Says She Imagined Giving Baby To Canada After Trump Was Elected

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Feelings continue to matter more than anything else on college campuses. Officials at Grand Valley State University in Michigan are now asking students to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-encourages-students-to-report-feeling-belittled-disrespected-to-bias-team/">report to the school&#8217;s bias response team</a> if they feel &#8220;belittled, disrespected, or isolated based on their identity&#8221; and it&#8217;ll be investigated.
&#8220;The university is committed to safeguarding individual&#8217;s constitutional rights to free speech and assembly and we are also committed to addressing incidents of bias that may negatively affect individuals and/or communities at the university,&#8221; it says on the <a href="https://www.gvsu.edu/bias/">school&#8217;s website</a>.
The website goes on to say: &#8220;Grand Valley facilitates educational dialogue to ensure that individuals understand both their right to free expression within the community and the impact of their expression on individuals and/or the community.&#8221;
So, yeah, you have a right to free speech, but only if you don&#8217;t offend anyone.
The school will provide &#8220;support resources&#8221; to those who report incidents &#8211; so there may be an incentive to exaggerate or make up supposed incidents of bias.
The school also suggests that students &#8220;confront bias whenever you hear, see, or experience it&#8221; by calling out the alleged bias, interrupting the bias, supporting &#8220;an upset person,&#8221; using body language &#8220;to show disapproval,&#8221; encouraging dialogue (but still reporting people).
Anyone can easily claim to feel &#8220;belittled, disrespected, or isolated&#8221; &#8212; especially with the victimhood mentality permeating college campuses. If you claim you were treated adversely because of your &#8220;identity,&#8221; you will get special treatment.
As The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professors-voiced-conservative-views-reported-universitys-bias-response-team/">has previously reported</a>, bias reports at Grand Valley have been used to demand conformity to liberal thought. One professor was investigated for saying there are only two genders and refusing to use preferred pronouns. Another was investigated for daring to say children should be raised by a mother and a father.
A campus official told the Fix that most reports don&#8217;t result in an investigation, it&#8217;s basically a &#8220;mechanism for someone to report that they felt mistreated and, consequently, University offices work to address the needs of the affected individual.&#8221;
So, like I said before: Claim someone was mean to you and get special treatment. And even though most incidents aren&#8217;t investigated, there&#8217;s no doubt they could be used against someone if they were accused of actually violating a school policy &#8212; whether they even know they had been reported to the bias team or not.

Feeling ‘Belittled, Disrespected’ At College? Just Report It To The Bias Response Team

Michigan

A New Jersey committeeman is suing his township because a colleague allegedly insulted him and called him names during township meetings, including &#8220;baldilocks&#8221; and saying he has &#8220;bad breathe[sic].&#8221;
Dave Schlick, a Democrat from Tuckerton, New Jersey, has filed a tort claim notice against his Republican colleague John Kehm, for what Schlick calls a &#8220;verbal assault&#8221; that has resulted in &#8220;damages to my political career [that] are impossible to repair.&#8221;
In his <a href="https://opramachine.com/request/2338/response/4581/attach/2/ROZZI%20REQUEST%20TORT%20CLAIM%202018.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1">handwritten notice</a>, Schlick says Kehm slandered him at a Little Egg Harbor Township meeting on April 12, 2018. Schlick wasn&#8217;t at the meeting, but apparently knows what was said.
&#8220;Some of the allegations in Mr. Schlick&#8217;s tort claim &#8211; such as allegedly being told he had &#8216;bad breathe[sic]&#8217; and &#8216;inappropriate comments&#8217; &#8211; read like they could have been made out on the recess field at the nearby Pinelands Junior High School, but they were apparently made at a township committee meeting, according to the tort claim notice that was served on the Little Egg Harbor clerk&#8217;s office,&#8221; Ocean County Politics <a href="https://politicsoc.com/2018/08/leh-democrat-files-tort-claim-wants-1-million-in-damages-for-gop-committeemans-insults/">reported</a>.
Schlick alleges that Kehm has engaged in &#8220;harassment&#8221; and &#8220;bullying&#8221; on &#8220;many occasions&#8221; by &#8221;making fun of the way I look, the way I walk, what I wear.&#8221; He said &#8220;inappropriate comments&#8221; were made about his fiancé and daughter. Schlick also said Kehm called him &#8220;midget,&#8221; &#8220;old man,&#8221; and &#8220;baldilocks&#8221; and made fun of him &#8220;for going gray.&#8221;
&#8220;It goes on and on. It is never ending,&#8221; Schlick wrote. &#8220;It has created a hostile work environment.&#8221;
Schlick said the township&#8217;s legal counsel Jean Cipriani, has witnessed some of the behavior, as well as Republican Committeewoman Bobbi Jo Crea.
Schlick intends to sue the township for $1 million.
<a href="https://savejersey.com/2018/08/snowflake-democrat-egg-harbor-council/">H/t Save Jersey Blog</a>

Snowflake Mentality Hits Local Politics As Dem Committeeman Sues Over GOP Colleague’s Name Calling, Insults

New Jersey

Comedian Andy Gross was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/comedian-andy-gross-apologizes-to-outraged-purdue-students/2018/08/21/4c88f4f8-a54e-11e8-ad6f-080770dcddc2_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.5a6c88d2dc54&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;wpmm=1">forced to apologize</a> for a routine he performed that upset Purdue University students.
Gross was performing at the Indiana university when he called a female student onto the stage to assist him in a card trick, and made comments school officials deemed &#8220;inappropriate.&#8221;
&#8220;Some walked out of his Saturday performance and accused Gross of harassing a female student he called on stage to assist with his routine,&#8221; the Associated Press wrote. &#8220;They say he made a crude reference to his own genitalia and requested that the student touch his leg, among other comments they found distasteful.&#8221;
In a <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1747762/Video-Comedian-Andy-Gross-puts-controversial-performance-Purdue.html">video posted</a> of the routine, Gross asks the female student to stand back-to-back with him &#8220;cheek-to-cheek.&#8221; He then asks her to concentrate on the card she pulled so hard that he could &#8220;feel your vibrations&#8221; &#8212; to laughter and jeers. He then tells her he needs her to place her hand on his leg (presumably to pass her thoughts to him). She does so, placing her hand on the outside of his thigh, to which he responded: &#8220;Holy crap she&#8217;s doing it!&#8221; Later, when he fails to correctly draw the card she chose, he says &#8220;Well, I got a free feel out of it.&#8221;
Throughout the routine, students can be heard laughing and scoffing.
For this, Gross had to apologize. A representative for the comedian said he was &#8220;profoundly sorry&#8221; for his routine, and regrets upsetting the students. She also said Gross would not perform on college campuses anymore.
Gross is simply the latest comedian to stop performing at colleges and universities because of political correctness. In 2014, Chris Rock said he wouldn&#8217;t perform at colleges because they were &#8220;<a href="http://www.vulture.com/2014/11/chris-rock-frank-rich-in-conversation.html">too conservative</a>&#8221; &#8212; meaning too politically correct.
Jerry Seinfeld <a href="https://ew.com/article/2015/06/08/jerry-seinfeld-politically-correct-college-campuses/">said in 2015</a> that he wouldn&#8217;t perform for college students because people tell him, &#8220;Don&#8217;t go near colleges. They&#8217;re so PC.&#8221;
Larry the Cable Guy also refuses to go to college campuses. The Atlantic wrote an entire article about college students&#8217; <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/thats-not-funny/399335/">inability to take a joke</a>.

Another Comedian Won’t Perform on College Campuses After Snowflakes Get Upset

College professors and administrators use &#8220;trigger warnings&#8221; to warn students about material that may upset them, such as depictions of rape and violence. The American public has had some version of these warnings for decades, most recognizably as movie or video game ratings.
But in recent years, students have been receiving trigger warnings on a new range of material, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/whats-next-for-the-college-snowflakes">including classical literature</a> such as Ovid&#8217;s &#8220;Metamorphoses&#8221; because of a passage about the Greek goddess Persephone&#8217;s rape.
A <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005791618301137#fig1">new study</a> from Harvard University psychologists, published in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, found that such an overuse of trigger warnings can actually be harmful to those who are exposed to them.
Psychologists Benjamin Bellet, Payton Jones, and Richard McNally took 270 American research subjects and divided them into two groups. One group was given a &#8220;trigger warning&#8221; before reading each of 10 passages from classic literature, where five of those pieces contained explicit material such as descriptions of murder.
The &#8220;trigger warning&#8221; group proved far more likely to suggest passages containing distressful language would cause themselves and others emotional distress had they experienced trauma.
Social psychologist Craig Harper <a href="https://medium.com/@CraigHarper19/its-official-trigger-warnings-might-actually-be-harmful-3e8acaae098b?sk=dfba016f8157637c378af8b0c0150b60">wrote at Medium</a> that the results of this study could have far-reaching cultural effects.
&#8220;This finding could have significant implications in the context of ongoing cultural debates about the power of language in reinforcing perceived oppression,&#8221; Harper wrote. &#8220;That is, if we are telling students that words are akin to violence and can cause harm, and then giving them trigger warnings to compound that message, we risk increasing immediate anxiety responses rather than decreasing them.&#8221;
Harper notes that the study is limited in its scale, and its use of non-students and exclusion of participants who had experienced trauma.
But he notes that the research lines up with the writing of Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, who in 2015 <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/">wrote an article</a> in The Atlantic claiming that trigger warnings would result in mental health damage. Part of the problem Lukianoff and Haidt found was that &#8220;trigger warnings&#8221; allowed students to avoid material that may upset them, which would further their fears and prevent them from healing.
&#8220;According to the most-basic tenets of psychology, the very idea of helping people with anxiety disorders avoid the things they fear is misguided,&#8221; Lukianoff and Haidt wrote, before explaining that someone with a fear of elevators would not be told to avoid them, but rather to gradually engage with them until they were comfortable to use one. &#8220;Trigger warnings,&#8221; on the other hand, reinforce the fear and compound anxiety.
Another problem with such warnings is that they achieve the exact opposite effect from their intentions. From Harper:
<blockquote>
To some people, trigger warnings are an essential part of the classroom. They&#8217;re seen as a way to make &#8216;marginalized&#8217; students (as is the current vernacular for describing ethic, sexual, and gender minorities, those with disabilities, and those with histories of abuse) feel like they are more included in the classroom.
</blockquote>
This is essentially &#8220;othering&#8221; people who might take offense and assuming all people of a marginalized group need to be protected from words. It&#8217;s infantilism.
This is just one, limited, study, but it&#8217;s something colleges need to consider.

STUDY: ‘Trigger Warnings’ Are Harmful To College Students

Colleges now encourage students to become a self-governing body of secret police in the vein of Robespierre, providing places where they can report each other for saying something &#8220;offensive&#8221; on social media.
According to <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/16/williams-college-students-should-report">Reason</a>, as many as 100 campuses have enacted &#8220;bias reporting&#8221; systems where students can report each other for so-called &#8220;bias incidents&#8221; &#8212; the sin of uttering something offensive.
The latest college to join in on this culturally Marxist trend is the Massachusetts-based Williams College, which, according to the campus <a href="https://d28htnjz2elwuj.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/30040429/Questions-about-Bias-and-Bias-Reporting-_-Speak-Up.pdf">website</a>, has deemed &#8220;name-calling and stereotyping&#8221; examples of such bias. The criteria for a &#8220;bias incident&#8221; might range from outright racist comments to your standard jokes about racial stereotypes.
Other such biases include ones as ridiculous as &#8220;a sign that is color­coded pink for girls and blue for boys.&#8221; Here are some more:
<blockquote>
Making comments on social media about someone&#8217;s disability, ethnicity, race, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, or political affiliations/beliefs
Writing on a white board about someone&#8217;s disability, ethnicity, national origin, race, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, or political affiliations/beliefs
Drawing or creating pictures that imitate, stereotype, or belittle/ridicule someone because of their gender, gender expression, race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, faith, or political affiliation.
</blockquote>
The rules fail to make any distinction between actually mocking somebody for their disability and &#8220;making comments on social media&#8221; about another person&#8217;s religious or political beliefs. It&#8217;s not clear how the rules are to be enforced, or whether uncomfortable subjects like Islamic terrorism must now be reported to the campus commissars.
The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/40955/">notes</a> that Williams correctly distinguishes a &#8220;bias incident&#8221; from a hate crime. However, the reporting system is the same for both &#8220;bias&#8221; and &#8220;hate&#8221; issues; anybody who feels victimized by such an incident is encouraged to report it to either the Dean of the College, the Office of Strategic Planning and Diversity, counseling services, or even campus security.
All of this is just an offshoot of the &#8220;speech is violence&#8221; microaggression culture on college campuses that encourage snowflakes to run into their safe spaces every time they encounter a differing point of view.

College Students Can Report Each Other For Social Media Comments On Politics And Religion

Censorship

A bitterly cold spate of global warming has struck the East Coast, freezing harbors and blanketing whole cities under its sweltry frost. The cause? A &#8220;bomb cyclone,&#8221; which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration explains occurs when a &#8220;cold air mass collides with a warm air mass.&#8221; Although Popular Science and National Geographic point out that such events, despite the intense name, are actually quite common, particularly in the northern Atlantic regions, the mainstream media have wasted no time in identifying the clear culprit behind the frigid cold front: global warming. The Washington Post, where democracy dies in darkness, quickly ran a headline Thursday to dispel any skepticism: &#8220;How Climate Change Could Counterintuitively Feed Winter Storms.&#8221;
Have a look for yourself at the balmy floes . . . 
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Cars line both sides of the street as engines overheat in Stamford, CT.
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Commuters to Greenwich, CT, ditch I-95 for the Long Island Ferry.
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A trendy Brooklyn-ite dons half a snorkel in her tropical paradise.
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A Stony Brook, NY, couple fetches a bag of ice after their air conditioner breaks from overuse.

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A tractor sweeps bubbling asphalt off the main drag in Bellport, NY.

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A despondent puppy in Bryant Park begs his owner to trim his coat just a little shorter.

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Three beach bros cruise Main Street Medford, NY, on jet skis.

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&#8220;On the way to Cape May, Stone Harbor skies were blue; we were naming the day when Wildwood came in view &#8230;&#8221; 

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Can&#8217;t wait for summer? The Atlantic City beach is open to swimmers!
Left-wing activists have long pointed out the difference between weather and climate. Telegenic smug-mugging science performer Neil deGrasse Tyson explains that, while the climate comprises long-term environmental patterns, &#8220;weather is what the atmosphere does in the short-term, hour-to-hour, day-to-day. Weather is chaotic, which means that even a microscopic disturbance can lead to large scale changes.&#8221;
In other words, no reasonable person would ever base environmental conclusions about a chaotic system heretofore impervious to long-term foretelling on acute weather events that have occurred throughout all of recorded history, much less articulate those prophecies in <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2015/02/falsifiability/">unfalsifiable</a> <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-15/climate-change-replaces-global-warming-as-preferred-term-for-a-changing-world">euphemisms</a> whereby any such event corroborates the thesis &#8212; unless of course those conclusions are <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/climate/hurricane-harvey-climate-change.html">convenient</a> <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/01/25/climate_change_helped_produce_the_blizzard_of_2016.html">for</a> <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/01/04/mayor-walsh-sees-climate-change-warning-boston-flooding/9l6NlNKzM0Y6cOjrbyxXnI/story.html">Democrats</a>.

WATCH: Bitterly Cold Global Warming Strikes East Coast

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The University of Rochester Medical Center has created a whole administration to promote &#8220;culturally sensitive&#8221; artwork to combat &#8220;visual microaggressions.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10281">Campus Reform</a>, the URMC <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171214232001/https://ps.its.rochester.edu/psc/PSApplyOnline/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST&amp;Action=U&amp;FOCUS=Applicant&amp;SiteId=1&amp;JobOpeningId=205386&amp;PostingSeq=1">job posting</a> seeks to fill the newly-created position of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171214232001/https://ps.its.rochester.edu/psc/PSApplyOnline/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST&amp;Action=U&amp;FOCUS=Applicant&amp;SiteId=1&amp;JobOpeningId=205386&amp;PostingSeq=1">Diversity and Inclusion Education Director</a>, which will be tasked with an &#8220;institutional-wide implicit bias training curriculum&#8221; and the creation of &#8220;an annual diversity and inclusion series&#8221; featuring various speakers.
The director will also work in concert with the school&#8217;s &#8220;aesthetics committee regarding culturally sensitive physical space including artwork,&#8221; providing advice on issues including &#8220;accessibility, gender-neutral space, [and] visual microaggressions.&#8221;
These trendy &#8220;Diversity Educator&#8221; positions have also popped at Middlebury College, where the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171215194536/https://middlebury.peopleadmin.com/postings/16405">Director of Diversity Education</a> will be paid $61,215 to &#8220;facilitate difficult conversations&#8221; on issues including &#8220;microaggressions, bias, cultural capacity, inclusive pedagogy, diversity hiring practices, etc.&#8221;
&#8220;Although not required, Middlebury hopes that its new hire will also be &#8216;someone with an intersectional lens&#8217; who can demonstrate &#8216;experience in racial justice frameworks and social justice education.&#8217; Working knowledge of &#8216;restorative justice principles,&#8217; a <a href="http://restorativejustice.org/">social-justice themed conflict resolution strategy</a>, is also desired,&#8221; reports Campus Reform.
The Stanford University Medical School added a similar position. Surprisingly, that job has <a href="https://stanford.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=272612&amp;src=JB-10064">remained open</a> for several months. Its responsibilities include educating professors on &#8220;unconscious bias, microaggressions, change management for diversity, and other diversity and inclusion leadership topics.&#8221;

College Administration Fights ‘Culturally Insensitive’ Artwork

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We now live in an age where sins you commit before you&#8217;re even old enough to ride a tricycle could come back to haunt you.
According to reporter Virginia Heffernan, former staffer for Politico and The New York Times (and now host of the &#8220;TrumpCast&#8221; podcast), Donald Trump Jr. has a rap sheet of abusing women, beginning at age three when he said to a teacher, &#8220;F**k you, b**ch!&#8221;
The bombshell revelation of Trump Jr.&#8217;s scandalizing behavior at an age when most children are obedient saints comes as a shock to us all. Heffernan&#8217;s brave expose of America&#8217;s First Son came in response to a tweet from Bloomerg&#8217;s Steven Dennis that taunted Trump Jr. over his &#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/941100052759576576" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">slick</a>&#8221; hair:
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My friend Anna taught Don Jr preschool in Manhattan. She asked him to move his mat one day and he said, &#8220;Fuck you, bitch.&#8221; He was three. Today&#8217;s for you, Anna. <a href="https://t.co/Y2oOkUPU5r">https://t.co/Y2oOkUPU5r</a>
&#8212; Virginia Heffernan (@page88) <a href="https://twitter.com/page88/status/941102462823526400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Worse still, Trump Jr.&#8217;s abusive behavior scarred the teacher to the point she quit teaching altogether. Heffernan did clarify the revelation was not intended as a #MeToo.
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She quit teaching forever at the end of that year. It&#8217;s not a # metoo story but it was extremely disorienting. Many of us are essentially in service roles to the rich, and it takes its toll.
&#8212; Virginia Heffernan (@page88) <a href="https://twitter.com/page88/status/941111374972968960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2017</a></blockquote>
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The Twitterverse then began echoing with cries of solidarity over Anna&#8217;s horrific abuse at the hands of a tyke, saying it highlights how the ultra-rich exploit the poor and allow their children to run roughshod over people:
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I used to manage homes for wealthy people and it drained me. They thought nothing of calling me at 2am to ask me to go see who their spouse was with at their beach house. Sure bc I wasn&#8217;t sleeping or anything.
&#8212; wojo (@Wojtaszek0114) <a href="https://twitter.com/Wojtaszek0114/status/941127739578470400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Before Reagan, wealthy people felt obligated to do good works. He freed them from that &amp; w/o that balance they&#8217;ve deteriorated spiritually.
&#8212; GneissGirl 94% (@GniessGirl) <a href="https://twitter.com/GniessGirl/status/941115859917000704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Others quickly resorted to mockery:
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She quit teaching bc of a 3 year old?? Is this some type of parody account? I really hope so for your own sake LOL
&#8212; Luciano (@DirtyGuap99) <a href="https://twitter.com/DirtyGuap99/status/941162970515693568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Hahahahah- what a snowflake being bullied by a 3yo. BTW , I call BS on the story. Get a life
&#8212; Braxtonian (@Braxtonian1) <a href="https://twitter.com/Braxtonian1/status/941282177232310273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2017</a></blockquote>
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HORRIFIC: Journalist Accuses Trump Jr. Of Abusing Women . . . At Age Three

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From &#8220;trigger warnings,&#8221; to &#8220;safe spaces,&#8221; to &#8220;cry-ins,&#8221; the millennial generation has rightly earned the disparaging label of &#8220;snowflakes.&#8221; But instead of shrugging off the moniker (or, better yet, proving it incorrect), young people, in true snowflake fashion, are whining about the term and its supposed effects on their mental health.
Par for the course.
According to research from a U.K.-based insurance firm, Aviva, 72% of 16-24 year-olds (note: this includes overlap with Generation Z) think the term &#8220;snowflake&#8221; is unfair and could negatively affect their mental health, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/06/dont-call-us-snowflakes-damages-mental-health-say-young-people/">reports</a> The Telegraph.
It was also uncovered that young people are more prone to experiencing stress, depression, and anxiety in the last year than their elders. &#8220;Almost half of adults between 16 and 24 said they had experienced stress or anxiety, compared to just over a third of all UK adults,&#8221; notes The Telegraph.
Additionally, one in three young people were found to be &#8220;uncomfortable&#8221; talking about mental health issues, and more likely than their elders to say that they are experiencing a problem for which they have not sought help.
&#8220;Our findings suggest that young adults are more likely to be experiencing mental health problems, so using a phrase which criticises this age group could add to this issue,&#8221; said Aviva medical expert Dr. Doug Wright.
&#8220;Any term used disparagingly to a segment of the population is inherently negative,&#8221; said the doctor.
&#8220;While young adults in particular appear to take offence to the &#8216;snowflake&#8217; label, the majority of adults agree that the term is unfair and unhelpful, so it&#8217;s important that people consider how such labels are used, and the cumulative effect they could have on their recipients,&#8221; added Wright.
While it&#8217;s true that those of us Millennials and Gen Z-ers have <a href="https://millennialmoney.com/the-millennial-generation/">not</a> been brought up in the most hospitable environment, maybe, just maybe, young people should fight back against this disparaging label by exhibiting behavior that does not include crying over an election loss, or throwing a physical temper tantrum when you hear arguments you dislike, instead of fulfilling the prophecy by complaining about our frail mental health.

Young People Don’t Want To Be Called ‘Snowflakes’ Because It Damages Their Mental Health

To commemorate the anniversary of President Trump winning bigly over his bragadocious rival Hillary Clinton last November, leftists have the best plan ever to ensure the MAGA man gets to live another four years behind those big, beautiful White House walls: scream like banshees up to the sky in hopes the political gods will hear their cries of pain and strike lightning upon their orange ogre.
According to a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/811830315665667/?active_tab=about">Facebook invite </a>from Julia Helene and Johanna Schulman, residents of Boston are invited to drag their Trump-weary selves over to Boston Common for a good old-fashioned session of exhaling exorbitant amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere at unfriendly decibel-levels to accomplish absolutely nothing. Basically, what leftists do all day long.
Titled &#8220;Scream helplessly at the sky on the anniversary of the election,&#8221; the event reportedly has 4.400 pledged attendees with another 33,000 interested. &#8220;Come express your anger at the current state of democracy, and scream helplessly at the sky!&#8221; the description reads.
As seen in the comments to the invite, leftists outside the Boston area are hoping to plan something similar.
&#8220;I&#8217;ll be screaming in L.A.,&#8221; reads one comment. &#8220;Wokest Event of the Year,&#8221; reads another. &#8220;Anyone planing on screaming in Vancouver?&#8221; another man asked.
Others found the event so profound, they could only share quotes from their favorite philosophers to express the stir within them: &#8220;The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human [scream] and the unreasonable silence of the world.&#8221; &#8212; Albert Camus
Have a great night, lefties. By all means, scream until your voice goes hoarse. Scream until Fay Wray has to come back from the dead to reclaim her title. The rest of us will be sleeping comfortably in our beds.

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