Here’s the latest Pearls Before Swine strip by Stephan Pastis. Once again the denigration of Snowflakes has become mainstream:
Two days ago the College Council, a organization representing the (apparently) undereducated students at the University of Chicago, voted by a vote of 8-4 (with three cowards abstaining) to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, and to recommend that the University divest its funds according to those guidelines. There is no chance the University will follow suit, as it has a policy of not taking political considerations into account when investing. Curiously, the article about College Council vote has disappeared from the student newspaper site (the Maroon), so I can’t find the resolution; but it apparently called for academic boycotts, which I oppose. I also recall, and I may be wrong, that it characterized Israel as an apartheid state, which is completely wrong if you look at how South Africa treated blacks under that system.
The Algemeiner, a Jewish website, reports this:
The vote is the culmination of a series of events, sponsored by proponents of each side, since the “UofC Divest” campaign launched two weeks ago (as reported by The Algemeiner). The resolution, promoted by UofC Divest and Jewish Voice for Peace, was also endorsed, according to UofC Divest’s Facebook page, by many student and community groups, including Students for Justice in Palestine, the Muslim Students Association, Black Students Association, Latinx Students Association at SSA (LSA), Queers United in Power, the Socioeconomic Diversity Alliance, The Fight for Just Food, UChicago’s Women’s Rugby and Hyde Park Pagans.
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Sorry Jerry, my vote is with Bernie and the Hyde Park Pagans, whoever they are.
Heavy metal?
Yes, if my country will not listen to my foreign policy position (whatever that is) then lets go after private institutions and demand they not invest where I say they should not. That has always been a winning strategy. One thing is sure…the rat in Pearls before Swine will let you know what he thinks.
I think demanding that a private institution stops investing your money into a country or business you do not support can be a legitimate approach – I think people have done that to object investment of their money into oil companies out of concern for the environment and climate change, for example. The question is whether singling out Israel is appropriate for this tactic – and to me it makes no more sense than demanding divestment from one specific oil company while happily doing business with all the other ones.
But even if attempting this sort of boycott on a private company, such as on an oil company has not caused any harm of much extent on that company. Or caused/forced the company to change it’s ways. Not saying there is any law that keeps you from doing it, I just don’t see much coming from the attempt. The boycotts against South Africa or against Iran did accomplish something because the reasons behind them were legitimate. The reasons for do this against Israel do not, far as I can see.
Yes, I cannot imagine Israeli Jews committing a mass suicide because snowflakes disapprove of their existence.
Not every campus has crossed the threshold toward needing safe spaces with fainting couches. The campus in which I work was recently defaced by large and elaborate pro-Trump chalk signs written on sidewalks around the quad. Students would stop and take cellphone pix, but so far absolutely no protests.
Liked that one. 🙂
On the subject of the perpetually offended, I am a gamer, and I’ve noticed that a lot of right-wing racists and homophobes are extremely offended whenever games include things they disagree with.
Was recently amused/shocked by the outrage expressed over a game that had an optional transsexual character that only mentioned her transsexuality in one sentence throughout the game. All the right wing nuts were outraged and offended and demanded that the game should be pulled because of the inclusion of an SJW agenda.
Appearantly, including characters that are not white, heterosexual males was deeply offensive.
Appearantly the game should have come with a warning about “transsexual content” (a lot of people actually suggested that).
I think all the perpetually offended people on the far right and the far left deserve each other. They could get their own universities with safe spaces everywhere.
The snowflakes on the right side of politics would only have too meet other white heterosexual cis men, while the snowflakes on the left would only have to meet their people.
The rest could mingle and have fun without them. 🙂
I would prefer however, that the universities simply demanded that the nutcases on both sides simply deal with being offended like the rest of us.
“The snowflakes on the right side of politics would only have to meet other white heterosexual cis men…”
To me, this doesn’t sound quite heterosexual :-).
Here. You’re so right. 🙂
That’s whats always amused me the most about those right wing nuts with the unholy trinity of misogyny, racism and homophobia (the 3 seems to hang together for some reason).
Here was supposed to be hehe. Damn autocorrect.
I hope the Perpetually Offended appreciate the thoughtfulness you showed in encapsulating a trigger warning in the headline.
For me, the burning question is whether this was endorsed by the Cubs or Blackhawks.
Great cartoon!