Seattle University students decided to show their parents why they are paying a whopping $40,500 per year to attend the school. A group of students have “occupied” the front lobby of the Matteo Ricci College (MRC) — the school’s college of humanities.
They’ve been there since Wednesday evening and claim they will not leave until the college’s dean, Jodi Kelly, resigns. Lest anyone fear for their wellbeing, the students have stocked themselves with pizza, pillows, and Beyonce’s Lemonade album playing over speakers — after all, what would a protest be without daily comforts and pop music?
The more relevant concern is why do these students want Kelly to resign?
According to their online petition, “Dissatisfaction, traumatization, and boredom are realities within our collective MRC experiences, as well as being ridiculed, traumatized, othered, tokenized, and pathologized. These experiences have been profoundly damaging and erasing, with lasting effects on our mental and emotional well-being.”
By the highly dramatic complaint, one would think that Dean Kelly was forcing students to participate in some version of the Hunger Games as a requirement for receiving a humanities degree. Alas, it’s much less dramatic than that.
Apparently, the students feel “traumatized” by the “profoundly damaging” experience of reading classics. One student told a very liberal blog that the “humanities curriculum is based heavily on Western canon and European classic literature, i.e. stuff that old racist and sexist white guys wrote down.”
Because, at the highly experienced age of about 20 years old, these students have achieved a level of enlightenment that allows them to dismiss the classics as written by “old racist and sexist white guys.”
But, that’s not all.
These little would-be hostage negotiators also have a problem with the “lack of diversity among the college’s faculty.” The same student cited above claims that professors “do not know how to communicate about race.” She also claims that they call her “aggressive and emotional.” According to the student, Dean Kelly once explained that she was “afraid of the oppressed becoming the oppressor.”
Perhaps the student should contemplate the possibility that, if a professor says she is being “aggressive and emotional,” she is actually being “aggressive and emotional”.
Unfortunately, given the incredible level of unmerited intellectual arrogance she exhibits, it’s safe to say the thought of self-evaluation would not cross her mind.
Never one to miss out on an absurd protest and/or the opportunity to make herself the center of attention, Socialist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant showed up to encourage the arrogant students.
Here are a couple of tweets courtesy of Sawant and a student:
I’d like to be able to say “Only in Seattle” but unfortunately these poor little self absorbed pansies are everywhere in America now and with pandering politicians like Shama Lama DingDong out to get their votes they are encouraged to just keep getting more & more ridiculous at the expense of the tax payers !
The students are wrong. Not knowing history is to repeat history that maybe, or maybe horrible. Without knowing history, those people will repeat mistakes made by those “old white guys.” As to teaching about race, why should they?
Didn’t your parents teach you how to get along with people who are different than you are? If not, then demand your parents, not the schools, teach you!
Yes we have pandering politicians from all parties who will do or say anything to get the votes. Also we taxpayers do pay the price.
Arrest them all for trespassing!
I don’t disagree with the socialist lady who claims she and the other protestors need “curriculums that serve us.” I would start with teaching her Latin plurals.
an open letter should go to all parents of protesting children, and tell that their children are no longer welcome, and they should make room for someone that is willing to learn.
We really need to figure out a way to “re-aline” our youths liberalism. To me, this is just plain bad behavior, with a fictitious excuse. If my kid was involved in this, I would ask them if they would like to “drop out” and learn to say, “Do you want fries with that?” I would also reiterate, that they have more important things to do with their time, MUST more important. In other words, “Fly right, or the next sound you hear will be a very loud “thump”. That would be their ass hitting the pavement looking for a job”
wellllllllll the liberal parents are paying the way, they must want their kids to learn these silly ideas. the only way to stop this is to quit paying for it, and somehow, I believe that the parents WANT this stuff to happen, therefore they pay the tuition……