Thread: Another Language Virus

We had an NDP candidate - an MA in education I believe, and the Superintendent of a School District, who got in trouble for taking a selfie at Auschwitz, of one of the electrified concrete fence columns and comparing it to a phallic symbol.

When she got called on the callous lack of respect for, a) taking the "selfie" in a concentration camp, and b) comparing it to a phallic symbol, she claimed she didn't know what Auschwitz was, she'd never heard of it or the concentration camp. She was running for Parliament! Lots of excuses were made for her, but the fact remains, she's an idiot. A buffoon who should have resigned immediately.

This is why I sometimes get the feeling we're doomed.

University is to instill a firm foundation of basic intellectual skills, through critical thought, analysis and broadening the mind to ideas outside your own comfort zone. Most don't teach that anymore, they teach ridiculous courses, and anything that may frighten or disturb these poor "kids", is littered with, "trigger" warnings now, whitewashed, or rewritten to suit various political agendas. It's ridiculous, and the "progressive left" on many campuses now, are in fact a type of politically correct thought police, squashing anything outside their little comfort zones.

And we wonder why, when they're out in the real world, they are completely incapable of dealing with conflict or adversity - or anyone challenging their "rote" taught ideas.