The souffl\u00e9 is a difficult dish to master. Even seasoned chefs can tell you that this very fragile, puffy delicacy will collapse if you open the oven at the wrong moment. Mirroring the vulnerability of the souffl\u00e9, a nation of undergraduate and graduate students is on the verge of a hysterical collapse following Hillary Clinton\u2019s loss to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
Just as the frustrated chef\u2019s anxiety comes from the perpetually delicate souffl\u00e9, the educator\u2019s anxiety comes from a perpetually delicate generation of students. Post-election safe spaces<\/a> abound at campuses nationwide, where mollycoddled students are offered coloring books and puppies<\/a> (not a joke), and administrators implicitly signal to the campus minority that voted for Trump that their political philosophy is damaging to their eggshell peers.<\/p>\n My own law school sent an email offering group stress-relief and individual therapy sessions to grieving students. The higher-tiered University of Michigan law school one-upped us, though, by providing a \u201c[p]ost-election [s]elf-care\u201d session<\/a> replete with play dough, Legos, and bubbles.<\/p>\n If my school had only asked, I could have brought all those items in. Although it might\u2019ve taken a while to find the play-dough, which is kept in storage with the rest of my 10-year-old daughter\u2019s old toys that she\u2019s outgrown<\/em>.<\/p>\n Instant Access to Current Spot Prices & Interactive Charts<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n After receiving that email from my law school, my wife explained the souffl\u00e9-making process to me, which I thought was quite the apt analogy, given college students\u2019 exaggerated victimhood:<\/p>\n Whipping egg whites, the first step in achieving a perfectly rising souffl\u00e9 is a sensitive task.\u00a0 Egg whites are particularly touchy, and so the bowl must be pristine. One drop of fat or oil in your mixing bowls and they won’t whip.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Sarah Klotz, a Butte College assistant professor, recognized that her post-election egg whites<\/a> no longer felt their school was the pristine bowl it was meant to be. In place of a planned lesson on Emily Dickinson, her 25 students would instead \u201ctalk about their feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n The structure seems strong and high-walled, but is very dainty and must be handled extremely delicately.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Wrestling with defeat, 150 Rice University students clasped hands, hooked arm in arm, and formed a circular wall of anti-Trump solidarity. The student who organized that event encouraged the maudlin display<\/a> by saying \u201c[y]our voice is wanted, it is desired. Let\u2019s spend a few moments locking arms, holding hands, and feel like one big family.\u201d<\/p>\n It must have perfect conditions, if there’s even one small element that it doesn’t approve of, the structure will not hold.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Eerily, University of Denver has placed a surveillance camera<\/a> to keep watch over its \u201cfree speech wall,\u201d following the defacement of a Black Lives Matter message and the addition of lyrics from the Minor Threat song \u201cGuilty of Being White.\u201d In the spirit of chilling speech, the university explained that \u201c[anonymity] allows one to disrupt community standards without facing the impact and accountability of their work\u2026 A camera has been put in place to monitor The Wall.\u201d<\/p>\n You might recall the anti-authoritarian Pink Floyd album (also named) The Wall<\/a><\/em>: \u201cWe don\u2019t need no education. We don\u2019t need no thought control.\u201d<\/p>\n But credit given where credit is due, you must hand it to the University of Denver. The school is apparently running a master class in irony.<\/p>\n Read the Whole Article<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The post The Basket of Deplorables<\/a> appeared first on LewRockwell<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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