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noddy wrote:you should have put a trigger warning up before i clicked on that distressing information.

Simple Minded wrote:

noddy wrote:you should have put a trigger warning up before i clicked on that distressing information.

Distressing, but encouraging. To see the intellectuals devoured by the little mindless, soulless automaton monsters they created provides great schadenfreude...... Kinda like watching parents eat their young, or spoiled children destroy the lives of their parents..... those who preach social justice are often the victims of cosmic justice.

Maybe Typhoon's point was that OTNOTer's should grow the hell up? Not you or me, or course, but we know which ones he intended the lesson for....

I'm hoping AGW melts all the special snowflakes.....

noddy wrote:

Simple Minded wrote:

noddy wrote:you should have put a trigger warning up before i clicked on that distressing information.

Distressing, but encouraging. To see the intellectuals devoured by the little mindless, soulless automaton monsters they created provides great schadenfreude...... Kinda like watching parents eat their young, or spoiled children destroy the lives of their parents..... those who preach social justice are often the victims of cosmic justice.

Maybe Typhoon's point was that OTNOTer's should grow the hell up? Not you or me, or course, but we know which ones he intended the lesson for....

I'm hoping AGW melts all the special snowflakes.....

hah.

least the doomer pron tastes sweeter after articles like that, its foreplay, philosophical burlesque.

Simple Minded wrote:

noddy wrote:you should have put a trigger warning up before i clicked on that distressing information.

Distressing, but encouraging. To see the intellectuals devoured by the little mindless, soulless automaton monsters they created provides great schadenfreude...... Kinda like watching parents eat their young, or spoiled children destroy the lives of their parents..... those who preach social justice are often the victims of cosmic justice.

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Romanian gymnastics world champion reveals dark side of performance in autobiography

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Her book includes other similar episodes in which she describes how she or her teammates were beaten and humiliated by their coaches and even by their parents. Olaru remembers how one of her colleagues was savagely beaten by her father in front of the other team members because the coaches wanted to expel her from the national gymnastics training program. Nobody intervened to stop him. Olaru, who was 17 at that time, writes that she cried after watching the episode.

“What’s wrong with you? Do you think that anyone would cry for you,” she remembers coach Octavian Bellu telling her. “And then he gave me a few slaps as a lesson. And, boy, does he have a heavy hand,” Olaru writes, according to journalist Catalin Tolontan, who wrote the preface to her book.

[...]

Tolontan added that Maria Olaru’s book tells the story of many children in Romania who have grown up in communist and post-communist Romania, who have been disciplined and educated with the stick. “A child tells on our behalf how we were beaten at home, in school, at the workshops, at our relatives, and in boarding schools,” the journalist writes.

[...]

Nicolae Vieru, former RFG President, basically admitted that abuse was common and a lot of coaches did things a lot worse than what Olaru is telling in her book, so what she’s talking about are minor things that he isn’t interested in. He also says she wrote the book for fame and she should have just been pleased by becoming a Olympic Champion.

The Minister of Sports, former multiple Olympic medalist, said live on a tv show that she doesn’t believe Maria is telling the truth and even if she, herself, was beaten or trampled by her coaches during training she wouldn’t admit it because those people made her a champion and she respects them for that. According to her, dirty laundery must not be displayed in public, but should be kept in the family[...]

Typhoon wrote:

Simple Minded wrote:

noddy wrote:you should have put a trigger warning up before i clicked on that distressing information.

Distressing, but encouraging. To see the intellectuals devoured by the little mindless, soulless automaton monsters they created provides great schadenfreude...... Kinda like watching parents eat their young, or spoiled children destroy the lives of their parents..... those who preach social justice are often the victims of cosmic justice.

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This trend reminds me of the histrionic Red Guards youth during the Cultural Devolution in China who eventually ended up persecuting each other over perceived deviations from Mao's Little Red Book.

Simple Minded wrote:Since my grandmother advised us at age 3, 4, 5, or 6, and it helped us form a workable world view, I feel the burden of responsibility of helping today's youth.

When the other kids say things that are mean, you just say "I'm rubber and you're glue, everything you say bounces off me and sticks to you." or "I know you are, but what am I?" or "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

Pee Wee Herman's conversational strategies should be more widely taught at US colleges.........

This was not the most absurd bias incident in Colby College's archives. Earlier this year, someone filed a report with the BIPR [Bias Incident Prevention and Response] Team after overhearing an offensive figure of speech. The offending phrase: "on the other hand." The BIPR Team's files note that these words were flagged for targeting people on the basis of "ability." I must therefore presume that the person offended by the phrase "on the other hand," possessed only one hand, or thought that a one-handed person might feel triggered by such a proclamation of dual-handedness.

NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:

Simple Minded wrote:Since my grandmother advised us at age 3, 4, 5, or 6, and it helped us form a workable world view, I feel the burden of responsibility of helping today's youth.

When the other kids say things that are mean, you just say "I'm rubber and you're glue, everything you say bounces off me and sticks to you." or "I know you are, but what am I?" or "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

Pee Wee Herman's conversational strategies should be more widely taught at US colleges.........

Unfortunately, the old rubber-glue routine has been hit with semantic drift, it's presently at, "I wear rubber and you sniff glue, whatever harms me befalls you too." ,,,kids these days much more lawyerliness.

Typhoon wrote:Reason | Saying ‘On the Other Hand,’ Got a Student Reported to the Campus Bias Police

This was not the most absurd bias incident in Colby College's archives. Earlier this year, someone filed a report with the BIPR [Bias Incident Prevention and Response] Team after overhearing an offensive figure of speech. The offending phrase: "on the other hand." The BIPR Team's files note that these words were flagged for targeting people on the basis of "ability." I must therefore presume that the person offended by the phrase "on the other hand," possessed only one hand, or thought that a one-handed person might feel triggered by such a proclamation of dual-handedness.

Given my overuse of the phrase "on the other hand", I had better avoid Colby College, so as not to be forced to undergo self-criticism and reeducation by the Red Guards, er, the Bias Incident Prevention and Response Team.

If former POTUS Truman were alive today, he would find himself in serios social media trouble for joking about wanting a "one-handed economist" who could not use the phrase "on the other hand".

In other news, a college has a "Bias Incident Prevention and Response Team".

Interesting times.

Typhoon wrote:x5uaVFfX3AQ

Parodite wrote:Reminds me of the paranoia in the Scientology church.

Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called "trigger warnings," we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual "safe spaces" where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.

Typhoon wrote:Reason |
Outrage Over U. Chicago Trigger Warning Letter Shows Power of Political Correctness

Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called "trigger warnings," we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual "safe spaces" where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.

Good for Uni Chicago.

Simple Minded wrote:

Typhoon wrote:Reason |
Outrage Over U. Chicago Trigger Warning Letter Shows Power of Political Correctness

Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called "trigger warnings," we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual "safe spaces" where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.

Good for Uni Chicago.

+1! Also an excellent screening strategy. Good management, and integrity.

Nonc Hilaire wrote: Big govenment social control systems are breaking down, and critical thinking is in comeback mode.

Coined by the famed sociologist Erving Goffman, total institutions are those that seek to control every aspect of life within the organization. Goffman highlighted prisons as an example of a total institution. In a prison, life is regimented, orderly, and compliance with even the most insignificant directive is required. Prisons control what inmates watch on television, what is available to read, what and when an inmate eats, and even what passes through the mail or the phone.

Typhoon wrote:Quillete | The University as a Total Institution

Coined by the famed sociologist Erving Goffman, total institutions are those that seek to control every aspect of life within the organization. Goffman highlighted prisons as an example of a total institution. In a prison, life is regimented, orderly, and compliance with even the most insignificant directive is required. Prisons control what inmates watch on television, what is available to read, what and when an inmate eats, and even what passes through the mail or the phone.