If @georgewillf were a candidate, the GOP would run away in PC fear. But he speaks hard truth to progressive power: http://t.co/SAothGbOO0
— Prudence Paine (@PruPaine) June 9, 2014
George Will wrote a controversial column which ran in the Washington Post. The column is titled “Colleges become the victims of progressivism.” Here’s the opening paraphraph:
Colleges and universities are being educated by Washington and are finding the experience excruciating. They are learning that when they say campus victimizations are ubiquitous (“micro-aggressions,” often not discernible to the untutored eye, are everywhere), and that when they make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate. And academia’s progressivism has rendered it intellectually defenseless now that progressivism’s achievement, the regulatory state, has decided it is academia’s turn to be broken to government’s saddle.
The rest here.
Will’s column is in part about how university attempts to prevent victimization can actually have the reverse effect and increase the number of victims. Will also wrote that progressivism makes victimhood a “coveted status.” However, many chose to read Will’s column as simply saying “getting raped is a coveted status”:
https://twitter.com/wagatwe/status/476042162086625281
George Will literally wrote a column about how great it is to be sexually assaulted these days http://t.co/IxCCVeVtd6
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 9, 2014
George Will thinks that being raped is a "coveted status" on campus. Retirement looms. http://t.co/7SeiKfdnNb h/t @BenLillie
— Dan Fagin (@danfagin) June 9, 2014
Let me get this straight… George Will thinks that being a rape victim "confers privilege"? What an idiot.
— Bret Baierlein (@bret1555) June 9, 2014
Just to recap, George Will thinks being a rape victim is a "coveted status." And the Washington Post was happy to publish it.
— Tyler Green (@TylerGreenBooks) June 9, 2014
What?! MT @JessicaValenti: George Will says being a college rape victim is a "coveted status" http://t.co/y8NXdW1ZjQ h/t @tori_saylor
— Amanda Terkel (@aterkel) June 9, 2014
I've called George Will a lot of things over the years, but deliberately ignorant wasn't one of them. http://t.co/7IoZfC8tQZ @kmcdonovgh
— Eric (@ericxdelta) June 9, 2014
@iamstu08 I think you will find this article apauling
George Will calls sexual assault victimhood a coveted status http://t.co/B23pm5qCaF
— D. W. Smith (@smitty0889) June 9, 2014
https://twitter.com/sexfinger/status/476047613980995585
God George Will is awful http://t.co/4qmsvtEWZO
— Dan Leonard (@DanielRLeonard) June 9, 2014
GEORGE WILL = grotesque human being: Being a victim of sexual assault is a “coveted status that confers privileges” http://t.co/YEjtzJxBR9
— richard chartier (@3particles) June 9, 2014
https://twitter.com/misssmithlisa/status/476046780799275009
https://twitter.com/alyssa_marieeee/status/476046540796989441
I have absolutely no idea what point George Will was trying to make with that campus sexual assault piece
— Ryan Foster (@FosterVsWorld) June 9, 2014
.@washingtonpost should add 'rape apologist' to George Will's byline http://t.co/F9d31kp2Yc #NoMRA
— Mike صباغ (@mikedolsx) June 9, 2014
https://twitter.com/dadflannels/status/476048400950255617
https://twitter.com/courtjusperk/status/476045369604706304
Someone tell #GeorgeWill his brain is missing
— Geoffrey Colon ? (@djgeoffe) June 9, 2014
https://twitter.com/TheOnlyZack/status/476049079743832064
https://twitter.com/tarynor/status/476049533923639296
Tip for @georgewillf: don't end column abt rape w/ "they've asked for this," even if about govt. http://t.co/ADYxkgGVr1 via @washingtonpost
— Marielle Mondon (@MarielleMondon) June 9, 2014
George Will thinks rape is overrated-and a fun way to get attention. FUCK YOU @washingtonpost for publishing dreck http://t.co/5xWARNlx9P
— sherry smith gray (@sherisaid) June 9, 2014
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