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Sessions rips campus culture for creating generation of 'sanctimonious' snowflakes

Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered a blistering attack on campus culture in front of a group of conservative high school students on Tuesday, saying that colleges are creating a generation of “supercilious snowflakes.”

“Rather than molding a generation of mature, well-informed adults, some schools are doing everything they can to create a generation of sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious snowflakes,” Sessions said during a speech at Turning Point USA's High School Leadership Summit in Washington.

Sessions focused much of his address on railing against what he called the suppression of free speech on college campuses and hostility against conservative students.

He added that instead of fostering open debate on campus, school administrations are bowing to liberal ideologies and “coddling students” with trigger warnings, crying rooms and therapy sessions.

“Too many schools are coddling students,” Sessions said. “There was a ‘cry-in’ at Cornell after the 2016 election, therapy dogs at the University of Kansas. … I hope they had plenty of tissues.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/...snowflakes.html



Jeff
Jeff
Jeff!

I have a lot of disagreements with Sessions on things, but he aint wrong here.

All of his whining make him sound like a snowflake. An elfen snowflake.

It's funny how the right can't see the hypocrisy when they throw their tantrums this way.

Referencing his time at Huntingdon College in Alabama, Sessions said that conservative students today face even tougher treatment from their more-liberal peers than they did when he was in school during the turbulent 1960s.

“The hostility was not as great then as it is today on college campuses,” he said. “Stand strong for what you believe in.”

Poor conservatives. They have it so rough. #snowflakes.

It is so good to see people standing up to the Fascism of the Left as they try to shut down free speech which is guaranteed by our Constitution.

Last spring, students protested a scheduled lecture by controversial sociologist Dr. Charles Murray. The incident at Middlebury College eventually turned violent, with protesters shouting down Murray and even putting a professor in the hospital.

In Alabama in the 60’s?

Hahahahahahahaha. That’s why the majority of the country can’t stand sessions and his dumbass comments.

There were many good people on both sides.

Yes, actually there were. Too bad some became violent.

Yeah, that poor dead woman's family that the Trump supporter ran over with a car would agree with you.

As you use their tragedy as a weapon on a message board.

Real class there.

Now, Beauregard... either liberals are coddled snowflakes, or they're tougher than when you were young. Both can't be true.

As usual, your message is disjointed, whiny and contradictory.

Better go away quickly, before someone sics that scawy, scawy lib Kamala Harris on you...

So much 'tough talk' from a figety little house elf who says stuff like this:

Thanks for your comment but I don't think Attorney General Jeff Sessions needs any more proof as to the validity of his statement.

Sometimes the facts aren't classy.

Interesting that you felt the need to rush to Keebler's defense.
Relative of yours?

Didn't know that elves and trolls had a shared bloodlines.

Dear Fox News, if you are going to put things in quotation marks, that means you are using the exact words.. yet you use sanctimonious in your title and supercilious in the body of the article.. Which is it?

dou·ble·think
ˈdəbəlˌTHiNGk/Submit
noun
the acceptance of or mental capacity to accept contrary opinions or beliefs at the same time, especially as a result of political indoctrination.

I cannot stand Jeff Sessions.....he is a dinosaur who is completely out of touch with reality.....his stance on Marijuana and narcotics are asinine. Newsflash, the War on Drugs hasn't worked the past decade, its not going to magically become a panacea for societal ills the next 100 years.....

That said, college campuses have become ridiculous. College students are even worse. Any viewpoints that conflict with the core liberal ideologies are looked down upon, seen as ignorant.

I had a professor who once began talking about how all semi automatic weapons were illegal to own. Someone corrected her, and her response was that she didn't know anything about firearms, and she didn't want to know anything about firearms because they have no place in our society. Soooo, you're blatantly advocating ignorance of a topic you don't approve of, and in the same breathe demonizing it.....

This was probably ten years ago, its probably much worse now.....pair that with a bunch of young adults who have close to zero life experience, who probably had their first beer last semester, and these same kids are talking about changing the world.....get a diploma and a job and family first....and if you are lucky enough to get to that point, then you have a springboard for pushing your beliefs on the rest of us.....

I'm all for freedom of speech, and everyone having a voice. But there is a big difference between talking with knowledge and life experience on your side, and parroting what you heard from your professor, or read in a textbook....Not everyone's viewpoints have the same merit, its just a fact of life......these kids will hopefully learn that one day.....

I agree. Colleges are turning out a lot of educated punks who don't know sheet..

A little effort to click the link would have shown you exactly what he had to say...

“Rather than molding a generation of mature, well-informed adults, some schools are doing everything they can to create a generation of sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious snowflakes,” Sessions said.

Dear FOX News, please disregard DC's question as he recently discovered he is a Liberal and is confused.

A few questions:

--Is that something new or have they been doing that for a long time?

--Are they not also graduating a lot of quality job candidates?

--Are they not also graduating a lot of quality citizens?

Age gracefully.

And, I read this somewhere. "If everybody had like minds, we would never learn." You may want to think about that.

We don't want them to know sheets, got enough of that in Trumps America.

as someone who is still in school, i can tell you while some of the students seem a bit softer, its mainly due to a lot of these kids not coming from any sort of challenging backgrounds.

i think some of the older generations are....unfortunately... not really accepting to that fact. the overall reality with millennials and younger is that the tribalism just isn't there like it use to be. more and more, the tribalism displayed typically ends at the nationalism level. for example, just observing through the school, i've never seen so many diverse friends before. everybody is kicking it with everybody. everybody is dating everybody.

and that is reflecting on how they act. and again, its IMO of course, but older generations seem to not understand that.

also, older generations love romanticizing their era's. obviously, guys like peen think his prime was the best, and everybody else is punks and blah blah blah, because older generations dont want to admit that college has NEVER put out students with street smarts.

and vers, i know you get me when i say there's a vast difference between book smarts and street smarts. these kids coming out of college are bright as hell. book wise, education wise, i do often feel stupid compared to what these kids know today.

and for me, i love it. im not insecure about it, and im glad, because thats what we WANT to happen, big picture.

college never put street smart kids into the world. thats not their responsibility, nor has it ever been. thats on parents, and ultimately thats on the students themselves to gain the knowledge on how to navigate life. college is suppose to get you ready for a skill set.

college has evolved from being a place where only rich wealthy students went for "enlightenment" and just being scholars, to now teaching skill sets.

and again, unfortunately a lot of people in the older generations haven't evolved their thinking on that.

these kids are pushing even harder for equality.
these kids are pushing even harder for diplomacy.
these kids are pushing even harder to fix the income inequality gap.

^^^ apparently, thats a punk ass way of viewing life. whatever.

It is getting worse. Educators have mostly been left leaning , but it is way worse today.



I would say those quality citizens were quality citizens before they entered college.



I am aging very gracefully thank-you.


I am very aware of "If everybody had like minds"....why wouldn't I be? I have tried to live it since I was 17 when I first said that in a speech to our graduating class in 1966.


I have always tested as a Centrist....just did on a thread by Swish. You or others may think of me as a right wing guy, but in reality it is only slightly to the right. It's just that the right tends to push my buttons more in the areas where I am decidedly right. I swing opposite in many areas. I don't like social injustice. I don't like hungry people and am willing to pay more since I have more to feed a few more. I just don't want to pay for it all. I think everybody should pay some kind of tax for living in this great country, even if just $100

Don't tell me that guns are bad, but don't tell me that homo's are bad either. Guns don't kill people, and gay people don't wake up one day and decide that they are going to like people of the same sex.


Don't tell me that I should pay 80% tax because I have it, but don't tell me that poor people shouldn't be helped by a greater share.....share being a key word here.


Don't tell me that abortion should be legal, because I hate it, but don't tell me that it should be illegal if a state wants it so....I am big in to state Governance.....to me that is a state by state issue. Local Community standards has been in the books for a long time.


I am big in to States rights, but also see a need for Federal oversight. I don't want Jim Crow type laws but also don't want illegals voting in elections.



To close, I want balance. If you don't have a good balance, you don't have crap.


What else do you want to rap about?

Interesting post.

I don't want to argue this point, but I think that each generation has bias against others. I get what you are saying about the older generation and I agree. However, the younger generation has built-in bias against older peeps, too.

I will share this. When I was a younger man and even when I was a teen........I sought out old dudes and picked their brain. I absolutely loved hearing stories about "the old country." I loved hearing about different cultures. Different political beliefs. I learned a lot from those guys. I didn't accept everything everyone of them said...........but, I was smart enough to listen. Many of the kids and young men my age were not smart enough to listen to those w/vast experience. The same can be said for some younger folks today.



This is an awesome comment! Hmmmm......how do I talk about this? Perhaps a parable. When I was a young athlete, especially in basketball, I made sure to always play w/guys older and better than me. They would kick my ass. But, I would fight hard and would learn from them.

I always felt the same way in regards to intellectual acquaintances. I want to be around people that are more intelligent than I am, more street smart, more global, more sophisticated, etc. I have a huge ego in some ways, but I know that I can learn from everyone and I especially like learning from those who are more gifted in a certain area than I am.

Bro, when I was little in New York........I pretty much knew I was smarter than almost all the other dudes. I tried to hide my intelligence and sought out to prove I was the toughest dude in the 'hood. Lots and lots of fights. I don't regret any of them.

When we moved to Ohio, I was tougher than all the suburban kids.............so, I had to prove I was smarter than they were.

It's evolution of oneself, bro.

You keep striving to become a better man. A better person. Be the best you can be both street wise and book wise. If you can be at the top of both, you'll be something to be reckoned with.

I think you are very intelligent. I think you embrace learning. I think you like to educate yourself. I think you get the street thang. You have a ton of potential, Swish.

Go get 'em.

But bro, just remember this.............don't become what you hate. Be open-minded and accepting of all cultures and try to judge individuals as individuals instead of assigning labels.

j/c

I think it's too easy to make blanket statements about college being a haven of liberal 'safe spaces.' I mean, that may be true in gen pop, I don't know. But what I know about my own cellege experiences is this: my major was so highly specialized there was little to no sociopolitical content at all.

History
Theory
Performance Practice
Composition
Arranging
Small Ensemble
Orch
Private studio
Pedagogy
Master Classes
M&P Recitals
Audition Prep

Not to mention the 2-4 hrs individual practice per day. I literally put in 14-16 hour days 5 days a week for 3 straight years.

And I know that those studying the Sciences had similar demands placed upon them, as well. We literally had no time to engage in such pursuits. One of my former private students just completed his undergrad at my alma mater, and his story was the same as mine, 20 years after I was there. Kid throws down hard on his axe, and is no puss by any stretch.

So I'm not sure what those folks you fellows describe were majoring, but I almost never ran across them. You'd have to tell me what kind of Major exposes them to this indoctrination you reference.

Where are these students you guys describe getting this?

Inquiring minds want to know

This reminds me from a scene from "Gran Torino".


The language prevents me from posting. Anybody can pull it up, just plug in Gran Torino Bro scene

Bro, I loved college. So much so, that I have three separate college degrees.

I have one in English, one in Education, and one in Mathematics.

I love them all, although the Educ degree was kinda BS.

I love how mathematics is undeniable. I love the assembly line approach of equations and formulas. You do this, then this, than that, etc.........and you = this. Brilliance. I also love prime numbers and how they are the key to the universe. It's mind-boggling and I'm not sure if DawgTalkers is prepared to talk about it.

I chose English first because I was a writer and poet. I absolutely loved the deep discussions we got into discussing literature in my upper classes. It was nice to move beyond the 100 and 200 classes where the classes were dominated by people who were there only because they had to be. I know this sounds totally unlike me............but I was always a favorite of my upper level English professors. We used to have deep, deep conversations about literature, philosophy, psychology, and how all relate to the practical world.

Man, I miss college.

I never felt more stimulated in my life. I love learning and improving myself and college was the perfect place for this dude who was raised on the streets.

What you looking at old man?
I see a bunch of sanctimonious snowflakes, punk.

I was there twice.
Dude, BG2 was insane. My second year back, my cello prof told me to audition for an opening in the TSO. "Yer a dadgum performance major, ain'tcha? Then git on in there and gitchyer feet wet!" (Alan Smith never lost his Texas accent)

Dang if I didn't win the sucker outright.

So... I'm commuting every day from Lima (1:15 road time) for an 8AM History/Theory block, taking a 20 credit hour load. I'm still 1st chair in the LSO, carrying a studio of a dozen privates- and now I'm jetting UP the road from BG to Toledo for my first year in that band! Reherasals in Tol finished at 10PM. 1:40 home. Up at 6AM to do it all over the next day. I taped all my lectures on a cassette player, and listened to them on the car deck on the way home from TOL.

3 years: never under a 3.60 GPA

I was a maniac.
I knew I couldn't keep the pace, so I resigned my post in Lima, got a place in Findlay to teach my Lima kids, and moved to Maumee. 20 min straight down SR25. Ah, the simple life.

Until I got a job as adjunct faculty at Heidelberg later that year. Dude- teaching cello on a college campus while I'm still trying to finish my undergrad in perf! Back on the road. Those 2 years were the start of a half-decade of manic intensity. I never felt so alive.

I was trying to make up the 5 years I spent at the refinery between BG's, and it really paid off. When school was done, I still had the Tiffin gig, my Lima kids (in Findlay) a new Toledo studio, TSO, Master Classes/symposia at UT, Michigan Opera Theater (DET) and free-lance jobs from CLE to CHI. I still know 80/90 like the back of my hand.

Like I said, insane.
And no liberal indoctrination during my time on any campus
Yeah... school was very good to/for me.

I did the Grad Assistant in College for one year when I was working on a Masters. I taught English 101 to a bunch of illiterates, some aspiring writers and learners, and a handful of truly intellectual young folks.

It was frustrating, rewarding, and inspirational.

Bro, the original plan was that I was going to get a doctorate and teach college forever. I got married and had kids right away. Locking myself in a library for 6-10 years was not my idea of being a good father, so I got the degree in education. It didn't take long because I had a ton of classes that carried over.

All I know is that I loved college. I love it when I was a goof and playing football. I loved it when I was an intellectual and I loved it when I was helping teach others.

I'm hoping guys like Swish are still reading. Embrace learning. Embrace improving yourself. Embrace putting yourself in a position where you can not only help yourself and your family, but mankind as well.

Look at the posts on this thread from guys like Clem and myself and then look at the posts from guys like 40. Who do you want to be?

Knowledge is power!

Cons pissed they can't get speaking time at colleges to promote their hate speech.

They then try use "freedom of speech" as a defense against anyone who dares question them. When Charles Murray is at a college campus, saying black people are dumber than white people, and he's getting shout down by the audience, now his "freedom of speech" is under attack, because other people are talking over him. GMAB.

Cons are using "freedom of speech" to expand their PC and civility culture. For them "freedom of speech" doesn't mean everyone is free to say what they want. They've turned it into, "you are violating my freedom of expression, by using your own freedom of expression. And that makes you a horrible person."

Says the almighty great grand wizard ... Are you praying to idols and false gods again?

I agree with you, but what I find hilarious is that the left is against the war on drugs, but think the same exact war on guns would produce differently.....

the left is barely against the war on drugs. HRC didn't even want to legalize weed.

the base is not, the leaders on the left and the right are too much in the pockets of big pharm to care either way off it, it will be their rallying cry I am sure. That's the only reason they fight against the 2A, they aint getting any money from the 2A people.

Its not about what these people actually believe, it about where their money is coming from. I am taken back to the "The Distingguished Gentleman", when Eddie is having lunch with that lobbyist and he is asking him what his views are and where he stands and Eddie says "what do you think"...the guy replies " well if your for I got money from ______ and if your against I got money from ______"

What a great movie, one of his underrated ones imo.

Exactly. That's what kills me about the people who think that the Democrats will lose by moving left. They can't tell right now that the Democrats and Republicans are essentially the same. We don't have a choice between coca cola and coke when we vote, we're choosing between flavors of water all made by one company. People believe we have two similar products, by different producers. In reality we're just getting the same flavor made by one company under this guise of illusion.

Conservatives calling out the Left who indoctrinate our children by referring to Conservative thoughts as hate speech.

This is Fascism from the people who lied about being inclusive.
The people who lied about being tolerant.
The people who lied about being open minded.
The Left.

And sometimes, a pig is still a pig... No matter how much lipstick you slather on its snout.

When you support hate, you should not cry when hate camps out on your stoop.

Like Richard Spencer and Milo? They don't promote hate speech?