{"id":11643,"date":"2016-05-05T00:32:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T07:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=11643"},"modified":"2016-05-05T00:32:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T07:32:33","slug":"survival-guide-for-social-justice-minded-special-little-snowflakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2016\/05\/05\/survival-guide-for-social-justice-minded-special-little-snowflakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Survival Guide for Social Justice Minded Special Little Snowflakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>&#8230;or why parents need to inoculate their children against collegiate madness<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What would happen if you put together a how-to guide for college Freshman made primarily from Tumblr posts? \u00a0You&#8217;d get the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thescrippsvoice.com\/scripps-survival-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unofficial Scripps College Survival Guide<\/a>&#8220;!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11645\" title=\"scripps college survival guide\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/scripps-college-survival-guide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/scripps-college-survival-guide.jpg 901w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/scripps-college-survival-guide-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/scripps-college-survival-guide-790x1024.jpg 790w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Oh, there are a few tidbits about how the dorm washing machines can take two regular loads (so don&#8217;t both wasting your quarters), particularly at the begining, but for the most part it page after page of &#8220;Social Justice&#8221; insanity.\u00a0 Even superficially neutral entries belittle &#8220;middle class, mostly white&#8221; upbringings and revel in tales of how &#8220;privileged&#8221; students saw the holy light of &#8220;Social Justice&#8221; and learned to smash the Kyriarchy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There is plenty of madness&#8230; to the point that any serious attempt at fisking would invariable cause the poor soul doing the fisking to go mad and immediately stab themselves in the eye sockets.\u00a0 However, upon a quick glace a few bit of insanity that were a bit unusual\/evil stood out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In one section, we are told that &#8220;prostitute&#8221; is a no-no word and oppressive, and one should use &#8220;sex worker&#8221;.\u00a0 One of the examples they give of what one ought to say?\u00a0\u00a0 This (on p. 169):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Youth in the sex trade; Why we should decriminalize sex work&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That&#8217;s correct, underage hookers are being harmed by&#8230; the word &#8220;prostitute&#8221; (and not, somehow, the sex salvers that pimp them out).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Also, &#8220;Safe Space&#8221; is no longer Politically Correct.\u00a0 The term suggests weakness, and accurately so.\u00a0 Nope, we are supposed to use the term &#8220;Brave Spaces&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Perhaps the most cringe-worthy entry is from a &#8220;conservative&#8221; who waxes poetic about how he has been enriched by Leftist ideology and how bravely the special little snowflake stands up against the eeevil troglodyte family:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11644\" title=\"conservative at scripps\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/conservative-at-scripps.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"632\" height=\"822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/conservative-at-scripps.png 632w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/conservative-at-scripps-230x300.png 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The full <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">tome of absulute madness<\/span> &#8220;<strong>Survival guide<\/strong>&#8221; 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