^oh and every time my “elite” SLAC alma mater gets mentioned in the local mainstream paper, 99% of the comments mock the navel-gazing privileged basket-weaving students who don’t have a clue. This is a school that turns out more nobel-winning scientists per capita than all but a small handful of institutions, and where tons of kids join the peace corps, go work pro-bono law, etc. etc. There is tons of stereotyping on both sides.
It seems someone conveniently forgot the whole occupy nonsense, but those were very forgettable protests. Oh, and the birther movement was started by John Podesta in 2007.
As for Yale students, they are not snowflakes. After the shrieking girl videos of last year, they seem more like bullies.
“As for Yale students, they are not snowflakes. After the shrieking girl videos of last year, they seem more like bullies.”
Oh, yes, let’s draw conclusions about the ENTIRE Yale student population based on a video of one girl that you saw. I guess we can do the same and state ALL OK students are racists.
This kind of rhetoric really helps further a discussion. /sarcasm/ 8-| Enough with the stereotyping.
Agreed.
There plenty of folks wearing his campaign hats/t-shirts in my area which tends to be upper-middle class, increasingly multi-ethnic, and leaning heavily Democratic/Green.
Just found out last night that one neighbor of the chairperson of my election district table where I did my stint as a poll worker is not only a supporter of the Yuge one, but also a bigwig executive of some sort within his organization. The chairperson also happens to be another supporter of his due to her religious conservatism.
Also, several FB friends from the NYC area including an older HS alum who is a retired local politician are proud supporters of the Yuge one.
And you don’t think they’ve noticed that they live in ‘fly over’ states, that the east coasters treat them as if they are bumpkins whose opinions don’t matter? There is an article in Salon right now about how the writer could have chosen to stay in her hometown and married and joined a church and focused on her kids, but she chose not to, moved to NYC and now is paying the price because she didn’t get the president she wanted. I’m not even one of those married, church going women and I was insulted.
As shown by the following video, which does not even have the shrieking incident, it was more than one girl.
You’re missing the point again, @Zinhead, but I’ve followed enough of your posts to know you enjoy stirring the pot.
“the writer could have chosen to stay in her hometown and married and joined a church and focused on her kids, but she chose not to, moved to NYC…”
A midwestern gal? (After all, the implication is she left the area she as raised in.)This tells me what about coastal prejudice? I guess if we stand on one anecdote, it could show that those who leave the midwest are tough on their former communities? Or? (Or, nothing.)
Nope. What started as a possible primary election strategy by a former senior analyst which was immediately rejected by Clinton and her campaign. And that strategy never questioned President Obama’s Hawaiian birthplace. . However, many conservatives, White supremacists, and their fellow travelers seized upon and exaggerated it to try undermining Obama’s campaign and later his presidential administration.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/birther-movement-founder-trump-clinton-228304
I’m not sure how much percent on FA tells you. If sticker is 50k/year for a boarding student and FA knocks that down to 30k/year per kid for high school, then your family is still likely to be fairly affluent, although perhaps not “rich.”
It’s ridiculous how upset people are at the election anyhows. We get it, you wanted the other candidate and party to win, big deal, don’t get that upset to where you can’t function over it.
People really need to grow up and accept the election results.
“A midwestern gal? (After all, the implication is she left the area she as raised in.)This tells me what about coastal prejudice?”
The author didn’t say where she was from, just that she wasn’t from there anymore. The way it was written was that she blamed the white women from her former home, that their vote shouldn’t matter because they were stuck in the past. Her past. She was superior because she wasn’t them. I just found it very insulting and assume that her old friends would too. I felt she wanted to reach out and shake her old friends and scream “How can you have won this election? I am so much better than you.”
I’ve lived in 8 different states, in big cities and tiny towns, and I definitely think that the coasts look down on the fly over states (first by calling them fly over states) and feel superior to the bumpkins living in the south or midwest. I did not find that the midwesterners looked down on the coasters, but they had no interest in moving to those coasts and no jealousy for the lifestyles. They do not think think those in LA or NYC are smarter or have a better life, just different but that those from NYC and LA and Boston and Seattle do think they are better than those living in fly over states.
I mean, was the outcry from Obama winning the election nearly as bad as this? This is ridiculous.
@noplayallwork You’ve chosen to ignore the comments posted here about why people are protesting. If you are going to jump into the discussion late, go back and read through please.
I loved how faculty and staff handled it at my D’s college (which is heavily liberal):
-There were no missed exams and no extensions.
-Students get a couple of excused (not penalized) absences per class, so they could, of course, use those, but that was never announced.
-The Office of Student Life offered donuts, games, and adult coloring pages in their office Wednesday, inviting people with a neutral, “Need a place to relax and clear your mind today?” (They are an active office and have many events and invitations to hang out in their offices like this, anyway.)
-Many of my D’s faculty members addressed the election results, but they did so in a completely neutral way. For example, they reminded students that not everyone holds the same beliefs on campus and encouraged true intellectual discussions, etc., by not alienating each other.
-Social media was deluged with students bashing people who didn’t vote for one candidate and saying things such as, “If you support __, do not even speak to me. We are not friends.” D kept sending me screenshots of the vitriolic, divisive posts; there were so many. Only a few students–of which my D was one, I’m proud to say–kept a positive, peaceful online stance. Faculty and staff “liked” these unifying, positive, call-for-peace-and-true-intellectual-discourse posts and ignored the negative ones; I assume that spoke to the students.
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Well said.
@twoinanddone I usually hear CC posters from the midwest call it flyover country. Maybe we have different experiences, but having lived on both coasts, I don’t hear the expression. Everyone I know personally says Indiana, Kansas, the Midwest or whatever. My point was whether the author was a true coastal person, representative of sentiments, or just living here now, not a reason to blame us for certain attitudes… And my preference for coasts is simply the oceans. Good people can be found anywhere.
I was intrigued by the title word “snowflakes”, an interesting word choice and colorful metaphor . I was hoping for an entertaining display of the English language on this thread. Instead I found the usual political discussion going around in repetitious circles ending in pointless insults.
@lookingforward, come on. Coastal myopia is not a construct of the Midwest/middle America.
No myopia is always someone else’s fault, lol. Btw, googling for the article in Salon, every link that came up that used “flyover” was accompanied by some comment the person lived in the midwest.
Anyway, arguing is silly. You don’t want to be blamed and neither do we. Think about it.