Dose of Reality

Rob Long
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A college friend posted this on Facebook, in response to the news that a Yale professor cancelled a test yesterday because the students were too upset by Tuesday’s experience of democracy.

I cannot improve on it:

I’m so glad Yale charges $70,000 a year to teach kids that life gives you a holiday whenever you’re upset. Thinking about my friends who have both cancer and kids. Thinking about friends who’ve lost their jobs or their parents or, God forbid, a child, and still had to put food on the table and hold their heads high to be strong for others. Thinking about the countless times I’ve lost business suddenly, but still had to make payroll for the employees and families depending on me. Life is about resilience. Teach that, Professor.

As they say: mic drop.

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  1. Dustoff Inactive
    Dustoff
    @Dustoff
    2:08 PM EST ⋅ Nov 10, 2016

    kelsurprise:Pansies.

    I managed to make it in to class or work after every single election that didn’t go my way – and that was in spite of crushed hopes AND a hangover.

    With a hangover?  That is  most impressive.

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  2. Dustoff Inactive
    Dustoff
    @Dustoff
    2:10 PM EST ⋅ Nov 10, 2016

    Oh..That Guy:I was working at DePaul and some students wanted to take the day off because of the beginning of the Gulf War.

    I said, “Sure, if you can name three of the countries bordering Iraq. We can all go to McGee’s and I will buy the first round.”

    Of the seven college student present, not one could come up with an answer.

    Beautiful!

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  3. Ryan M(cPherson) Inactive
    Ryan M(cPherson)
    @RyanM
    2:54 PM EST ⋅ Nov 10, 2016

    Kozak:

    Ryan M(cPherson):

    Kozak:These precious snowflakes will be eaten alive by their competition in China, Russia, Japan,etc etc.

    No. If they have useful services, they will come up with innovative ways to sell them. If they have no useful services, then they’d be eaten up by any competition at all. That’s a good thing.

    No way they compete in the world with their attitude. Whatever services they offer, someone who will actually show up and work will get the job.

    Exactly.  And if that someone is in China or Russia or Japan, more power to him.

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  4. Ray Kujawa Coolidge
    Ray Kujawa
    @RayKujawa
    6:42 PM EST ⋅ Nov 10, 2016

    Dustoff:

    Oh..That Guy:I was working at DePaul and some students wanted to take the day off because of the beginning of the Gulf War.

    I said, “Sure, if you can name three of the countries bordering Iraq. We can all go to McGee’s and I will buy the first round.”

    Of the seven college student present, not one could come up with an answer.

    Beautiful!

    Syria, Iran and Kuwait. I’m taking tomorrow off.

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  5. Annefy Member
    Annefy
    @Annefy
    10:10 PM EST ⋅ Nov 10, 2016

    I’ve never been prouder of my kids than I have in the last few days. I suspect a few went rogue – pretty sure son #1 wrote in Mattis.

    But I’ve been watching them on FB and listening to them on the phone patiently explaining the electoral college and democracy. Someone reached out to daughter about faithless electors asking if it’s ever happened where a election was overturned

    They are all rolling their eyes at their peers and are frankly embarrassed by their cousins’ FB meltdowns

    I liked the earlier comment about suffering being a necessity of life – I’m fairly sure they would all agree they’ve had their share having had to listen to me for years

     

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  6. kelsurprise Member
    kelsurprise
    @kelsurprise
    1:18 AM EST ⋅ Nov 11, 2016

    Annefy: They are all rolling their eyes at their peers and are frankly embarrassed by their cousins’ FB meltdowns

    I’ve got a few cousins making me cringe but it’s some of the co-workers, friends and fellow actors out there that are truly leaving my jaw on the floor when I fell compelled to go back and gape at the sea of raw sewage that is my FB feed right now.

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  7. Nick Baldock Inactive
    Nick Baldock
    @NickBaldock
    6:36 AM EST ⋅ Nov 11, 2016

    I have been avoiding Facebook all week and shall continue to do so. I might leave it entirely, as it used to be a fun site for sharing life news and has now become a platform for stridency and assertion.

    I’m increasingly concerned that western civilisation shall die of emotional incontinence. What seems to me over-reaction seems to others almost a proof of rightness; that one’s virtue can be measured by one’s emotional response.

    Please reassure me, but this seems to be poisoning the societal well.

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  8. MISTER BITCOIN Inactive
    MISTER BITCOIN
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    10:57 PM EDT ⋅ Oct 4, 2019

    Hammer, The (View Comment):

    Majestyk:My college didn’t cancel a single class for 9/11, let alone a test…

    What a bunch of sissies.

    At my college, classes were going on during the attacks, and were cancelled for the duration of the morning. I think that had something more to do with the fact that they wanted to give people an opportunity to check on their families on the east coast, and classes resumed almost immediately following the attacks.

    My kids are 5 and 2.5, respectively. I’m already worrying about how to find them a college where they will both gain an education and not lose their worldview. I suppose more of that has to do with parenting than it does with college, but seeing the way today’s campuses have been transformed is indeed disheartening.

    McGill , the Harvard of Canada which is in Montreal!

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