Oppressing Oppression
This is entirely charming. The dreadlocked, body-pierced granola-crunchers with sprouts stuck between their teeth at Hampshire College want “anti-oppression training” for all staff.
The article sadly doesn’t detail the nature of the administration’s failure to be insufficiently committed to fighting racism. It’s hard to imagine, if you know anything about Hampshire College. But what’s fascinating is that while the alternativistas earnestly claim they want to boost diversity at their 1,350-student ultra-liberal arts college in western Massachusetts’ Happy Valley,* one of their demands is for residence halls exclusively for students of color and for “queer-identified” students. That doesn’t sound very diverse. Sounds … kind of oppressive.
* It’s actually called the Pioneer Valley. The 17th century pioneers who settled places like Hadley, Deerfield and Northampton would probably burn a lot of the present occupants at the stake if they saw what they were getting up to, from queer identification to fornication to assorted kinds of godlessness and even witchcraft. Also, failure to keep the Sabbath, adultery, intoxication, wearing of outlandish garb, strange dances and cavorting with the devil. Disclosure: I used to live there. What a great place. If you have a high granola tolerance.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:18 pm on Monday, March 31, 2008
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March 31st, 2008 at 11:28 pm
In 1733, Jonathan Edwards preached the Great Awakening at Northampton MA. His mortal remains are now doing 8000 rpm.
April 1st, 2008 at 1:49 am
Don’t opress me, bro!
April 1st, 2008 at 8:00 am
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April 1st, 2008 at 9:29 am
They want diversity, they can live in the streets. Now that’s diversity!
April 1st, 2008 at 10:50 am
Hampshire College Students Stage Walkout to Demand More Diversity
Somebody needs to inform them those students, alas, “more diversity” is impossible as they only have 4 functioning neurons.
Collectively.
And that their taskmasters (aka “teachers”) haven’t seen fit to develop more than a few neuronal circuits inside their (so called) brains.
And that their prime “thinking” circuit is labeled “diversity”.
I hope this helps.
April 1st, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Hey kids, hear that phone ringing? It’s another corporate recruiter canceling a trip to your college because it’s been overrun by politically-correct morons. The working world has no patience for your BS. The sooner you learn that, the better off you’ll be.
My suggestion to the striking students would be: Join the Peace Corps, and see what oppression REALLY looks like in some of the worst hellholes on Earth. Then you can go back to your cuddly little college and realize how incredibly fortunate you are. If you survive the experience, I strongly doubt you’ll feel any more need for ’safe spaces’.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Happy Valley, that’s here. Right idea, wrong campus. Penn State. State College is in Happy Valley (seriously). That’s over the mountain from Bald Eagle Valley, and over another mountain in the other direction from Nittany Valley, etc.
April 1st, 2008 at 3:12 pm
College kids are notoriously stupid. Fortunately, most of them will grow up.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Pampered twits oughta join the Navy. Most diverse place I’ve ever been. They didn’t care what color you were, but you had better know your shit.
April 6th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
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