Trigger Warning

American University’s student government president Devontae Torriente, in a move all too typical of our colleges and universities, wants everything taught at the school to come with a trigger warning.

The fact of the matter is, trigger warnings are necessary in order to make our academic spaces accessible to all students, especially those who have experienced trauma[.]

Sure.  Because the dear ones are unable to overcome their hurt feelings and learn to think.

Here’s trigger warning for all prospective pupils and students: American colleges and universities are rife with offensive, macroaggressive “trigger warnings” that various course materials require consideration of differing views, and these same colleges and universities have (not “may have”) “safe spaces” restricting freely spoken thoughts that encompass the entirety of the campus.

These are extremely offensive and depressing aggressions against those students who are there to learn, via the subject matter of their majors, how to think critically and rationally, how to consider opposing and even uncomfortable ideas, and how to get ahead in a real world that is indifferent to precious feelings.

Here’s an alternative action for these fragile ones: stay home in your domestic safe spaces.  The fact of the matter is the world is not a safe space, and work spaces in the world don’t come with trigger warnings.

CLM

Not to be confused with BLM.  Don’t you dare confuse the two.

The clown community in Tucson, Arizona organized a “Clown Lives Matter” march Wednesday that’s set to take place October 15 in reaction to the reports of “killer clowns” terrorizing communities and the rumors on social media fanning the fears of clown attacks, according to KGUN9-TV.

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“This is a peaceful way to show clowns are not psycho killers,” a flyer seen in Tucson read. “We want the public to feel safe, and not be afraid. So come out, bring the family, meet a clown and get a hug!”

Of course, the BLM isn’t a gang of psycho killers, either.  They’re just a gang of racist thugs who don’t like free speech that doesn’t accord with their own demands.

A Good Move

WFAY-AM, broadcasting out of Fayetteville, NC, normally carries East Carolina University football games.  No more, at least for a while.

WFAY-AM in Fayetteville announced Tuesday that it would not carry the Pirates’ game at South Florida scheduled for Saturday. The move comes after the school said 19 band members kneeled during the anthem before the game against Central Florida….

Of course, the band members have a free speech right to protest and to disrespect our flag and our national anthem in the course of that protest.

But—and this is a point too many on the Left choose to ignore—the rest of us have the same free speech right to protest the protest and/or its technique, and to take action in counter to that protest.

Good for WFAY, and good for the station’s sponsors, who agreed with the decision.

A Howard Dean Apology

Recall that the Democrat Howard Dean accused Republican Party Presidential candidate Donald Trump of being on cocaine.howarddeantweet

After the hoo-raw that rose over Dean’s scurrilous accusation, Dean said this to MSNBC‘s Stephanie Ruhle:

I apologize for using innuendo. I don’t think it’s a good thing to do, I don’t think it’s the right thing to do…. I’m not unwilling to apologize for using innuendo.

Notice that.  Dean apologized for beating around the bush (which he didn’t actually do; Dean was quite direct in that tweet of his) with his accusation about Trump being on cocaine.

But Dean has not a syllable of apology for his actual accusation.  Masquerading that statement as an apology for his accusation is a base lie.

Full stop.

The VA Strikes Again

Reform the Veterans Administration?  It’s still not happening.  It’s hard to believe the folks nominally in charge (they can’t be termed “leadership”) are even trying.

An Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital already under fire for excessive wait times, festering black mold and kitchen cockroaches faces a new shame—the bodies of dead patients left unclaimed in the morgue for up to two months without proper burial, whistleblower documents allege.

One example of the VA’s…failure…here is in this string of emails, beginning 7 Dec 2015, that a whistleblower provided outside authorities.

“[There is] an invoice for an unclaimed veteran that has been here for over 30 days. Please approve for burial at Abraham Lincoln,” the clerk wrote to [Chief of Patient Administrative Services, Christopher] Wirtjes and several others.

Three days later, the clerk wrote again: “Approval of unclaimed Vet D?? Status?”

On Dec 23, the clerk wrote to human resources: “Any further on my poor unclaimed? I WILL file a police report, but I hate doing that…”

Three weeks, and Wirtjes couldn’t even be bothered to respond.

There have been no consequences for Wirtjes, either.

Veteranos Administratio delende est.