A week after Donald Trump won the presidency, many students on the University of Delaware campus were still devastated. Professors at the blue-state public school where Vice President Joe Biden is an alumnus canceled classes, helped organize marches, and held discussions so that students could process their feelings and fears.
But the UD students who voted for Trump were thrilled. It’s not just that their candidate won, but that the Democrats’ reliance on “identity politics” failed. Hillary Clinton’s campaign bet on the votes of women, minorities, the LGBT community, and other groups whose political positions are often shaped by the way they identify. But the Clinton campaign didn’t just fail to get out the vote — it also alienated white people who don’t like being told they’re bigots.
Trump didn’t win the election thanks to college graduates. The majority of them backed Clinton — except for white college-educated voters, who went for Trump by a narrow four-point margin. Nevertheless, Trump voters on campuses across the country view themselves as underground rebels fighting a corrosive epidemic of political correctness. Just don’t expect them to wear their “Make America Great Again” caps to the dining hall.
“It’s the new counterculture,” said Jared, an undergraduate who wore a suit and tie to a recent meeting of the UD College Republicans. “It’s the equivalent of being a hippie protesting at Kent State,” he said, apparently referring to the 1970 Vietnam War protest that ended with National Guard troops shooting four unarmed students to death.
“Or being grunge in the ’90s,” another student chimed in.
:Massive Facepalm: I was part of the counterculture. Bonafide hippie, right here. These ignorant twerps wouldn’t know a counterculture if it fucking bit their arses off. People died at Kent State, murdered, as they ran away. A silence swept the land when that happened, and then a wave of screaming took place, it was past time to make things change. These stupid, whiny, overprivileged, entitlement minded gits have absolutely no fucking business talking about Kent State, let alone comparing themselves to those who were there. Especially in light of the special idiot who compares Kent State to being grunge in the ’90s. Yeah, wow, talk about hard times, dude, that was just awful, wasn’t it? I’m stunned. Just stunned by the depth of this willfully ignorant entitlement. These idiots would run away from an actual protest, afraid they might mess up their hair, or possibly get those oh so cool conservativeculture clothes dirty. This is a good illustration of the dumbing down though, of the idiocy being embraced in this lost country, and newspeak is firmly entrenched. Counterculture? No. Concult, yes. These little asswipes aren’t counter anything. They are the boot stomp of conformative fascism.
In the 1960s, the University of California, Berkeley, was known for free-speech protests, said Andrew Lipman, a UD senior and the chairman of the Delaware Federation of College Republicans. Now, in Lipman’s view, the university is known for “silencing conservative speech, because it’s considered hateful.”
Gee, that would be because a great deal of conservative speech is hateful, you dumbfuck. It would be so nice if vacuum headed idiots like Lipman would bother to think about why so many people do not have the slightest interest in hearing “conservative speech”. Any minority person could tell him why, but I doubt Lipman and his dudebros much care to listen to minority people. Probably aren’t too keen on listening to women, either. At least not women who aren’t bound up in the conservativeculture.
Trump’s win is a boon for every college student frustrated by progressive campus activists’ concepts that have gone mainstream, such as “trigger warnings,” “safe spaces” and “microaggressions.” Lipman wasn’t a big Trump supporter, but he’s concerned by reports from UD students who say they don’t feel comfortable voicing pro-Trump sentiments in class, in their dorms, and around campus. He’s such an advocate for free speech that he helped bring Breitbart News writer and alt-right celebrity Milo Yiannopoulos’s “Dangerous Faggot” college tour to UD two weeks before the election.
Oh, they don’t feel safe expressing themselves. Why, persons of colour and women and queer folk wouldn’t know a fucking thing about that one, no. So, I guess, Mr. Lipman, what you want, is what Pres-elect Pussy Grabber wants, a safe space. Oops, how did you get yourself into that box?
There’s much more at BuzzFeed, but I’m ending this post now, it’s too early in the morning for me, it’s barely light out. I have always taken great care to avoid falling into the “oh, young people today…” garbage, because it is garbage. It’s really difficult to stay away from that right now, so I’ll go have tea.
Full article at BuzzFeed.
Siobhan says
See, they just think black people are “inherently” criminal. That’s not bigotry! They’re not lynching or anything!
rq says
Oh look, validating presentation of hate masquerading as rational discussion of both sides.
*spit*
Also, identity politics, how do they work? I mean, I fail to see how Trump’s campaign didn’t rely on “identity politics”.
Dunc says
It’s not “identity politics” when white people do it.
Saad says
Is it possible to get a grant to study the correlation between white supremacy and face-punchability?
rq says
Saad
Can’t hurt to try.
Daz: Uffish, yet slightly frabjous says
Never punch to the face. Use the heel of the hand instead.
Giliell, professional cynic -Ilk- says
Well, that’S totally different, isn’t it? We don’t feel safe for existing in public, especially around that kind of dude, while they must dread somebody saying “not cool, bro, that’s racist”. You really can’t compare those two things!
The funny thing is, you can read everything I wrote as massive cynic snark as well as the full truth…
rq
It’s not identity politics when white people are concerned about their privilege.
Onamission5 says
No, you entitled, bigoted fucking douchebags, it’s more like being punk rock in the 70’s and early 80’s, until a bunch of fucking neo-Nazis took over and fucking ruined it for everybody.
So counter culture, stalwartly defending the former status quo. Much oppressed.
*spits and spits and spits*
Onamission5 says
It’s also like when some boomers, weary of having their minds opened and being asked to *gasp* consider the needs of other people, became Jesus Freaks and then ran headlong into today’s current dominionist/complementarian movement.
Like the ones I went to church with as a kid. White reactionaries who were fine with themselves bucking the establishment when it was about pissing off their parents and getting talked about on TV, but when told that feminists and PoC and LGBT people had valid complaints as well, decided maybe their parents had it right all along, joined the right wing and became fundamentalist Christian Republicans.
There’s comparisons to be made but the comparisons aren’t what the fucking hate-right thinks they are.
Caine says
Onamission5:
Yep. These twits don’t even realize how boringly establishment they are.