At Yale University there’s been student protest over an email encouraging tolerance of other students’ Halloween costumes:
They also condemned an e-mail from the associate master of Silliman College, one of Yale’s 12 undergraduate residential communities, to Silliman residents that argued that people should not be offended by insensitive Halloween costumes and should instead tolerate them and talk about them. That message came in response to a plea from Yale officials that the university community “take the time to consider their costumes and the impact it may have,” citing possible outfits including “feathered headdresses, turbans, wearing ‘war paint’ or modifying skin tone or wearing blackface or redface.”
The email about tolerance has ironically mobilized the tolerance police on campus:
Yale administrator's wife sent out note protesting Halloween costume police.Student mob demands husband be fired. https://t.co/L5UrJFotEt
— Christina Sommers ? (@CHSommers) November 6, 2015
"Who the f**k hired you?" Watch Yale cry-bully denounce professor. Why?His wife defended non-PC Halloween costumes. https://t.co/yaYaxsnvVO
— Christina Sommers ? (@CHSommers) November 7, 2015
https://twitter.com/mcmoynihan/status/663001875403382784
In the Yale Herald, an op-ed writer pointed out that some students were taking that particular call for tolerance pretty hard:
Yale students "having breakdowns" because professor wrote email saying free speech was good. https://t.co/zdObjWEptX pic.twitter.com/fn6zEKoCkq
— Byron Tau (@ByronTau) November 7, 2015
Admins aren’t there to “take care of you” & check on your fee-fees. #Yale isn’t a preschool https://t.co/rz41ciitgd pic.twitter.com/d9p6bn2Sgk
— Ari Cohn (@AriCohn) November 6, 2015
Having breakdowns? Maybe next time Yale will provide safe spaces from “offensive” emails, along with somebody to “take care of” them.
Shut up! I am a delicate little flower! A. DELICATE LITTLE FLOWER!!!!!! https://t.co/PXpNXwG692 – https://t.co/PXpNXwG692
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) November 7, 2015
An entire generation has been raised that cannot deal with reality. This country, if not the world, is doomed. https://t.co/8huqbKDrl9
— Patrick H. (@trogdor8768) November 7, 2015
I have never read anything more infantile in my life, and I literally live all but surrounded by infants daily. https://t.co/FkJGLyZakI
— (((≠))) (@ThomasHCrown) November 7, 2015
What a stupid time to be alive. https://t.co/XK2pFfRuxG
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) November 7, 2015
https://twitter.com/sleepymale/status/663017007835541506
I cannot imagine who would voluntarily hire these people when they finish school. https://t.co/PZDpMB0S4v
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) November 7, 2015
We are raising a generation of ignoramuses. https://t.co/iHRJr0jUVN
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) November 7, 2015
@ByronTau @allahpundit I'm convinced we need compulsory military service to overcome this generation of hypersensitive babies.
— Mitch (@ii_what_ii) November 7, 2015
College isn't real life. Luckily, for most of these special snowflakes, they'll stay in academia forever. https://t.co/KNdlrbOvMR
— james kann (@jameskann) November 7, 2015
At what point do these Yale students enter the job market, get reprimanded by a supervisor, and move home to mom? https://t.co/9NLRHcn68Q
— Whitney Munro (@whitney_munro) November 7, 2015
. @JonahNRO All this over a refusal to ban certain Halloween costumes. This is not the sign of a healthy mind pic.twitter.com/9NG5ZPO8uR
— Wretched Esq (@WretchedEsq) November 7, 2015
You had a good run, Yale. https://t.co/deYfHI11QA
— Michael Haugen (@HaugenATX) November 7, 2015
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