The Yik-Yak Revolution

[4est_4est_Gump]

[Time to wind up the usual suspects.]

There is a social media app popular on campuses nationwide called Yik-Yak. The way it works is that short Twitter-like messages (yaks) can be posted anonymously within a short-radius area. The best yaks are then voted up or down a list by those within a given place. All these short messages, however, disappear into oblivion after a short time.

The attitude of many of the students now disrupting college campuses resembles this popular social media app. They seem to have adopted a “Yik-Yak” mentality where feelings, impressions, and resentments rule inside a worldview that is local, unstructured, and chaotic.

Indeed, those in authority are mystified as to how to deal with this nameless movement that does not seem to be playing by the old rules of using logic and facts. It lacks the dynamism and internal logic of student movements of the past.

Call it a Yik-Yak Revolution because there are no rules at all. Rather there are simply those intense and anonymous feelings and resentments inside given “micro-spaces.” These extremely local protest mobs seem to have no visible leaders or chiefs, but rely upon the action of the tribe that votes up and down the sentiments and emotions of their members.

These childish students represent a postmodern deconstructed generation that has detached themselves from traditional labels like Christian or Western. What is important to them is a subjective, insular, and self-absorbing vision, which would perhaps be better characterized as a blindness. Inside their tribes, these students demand to be insulated in a “safe space,” a kind of academic playpen that keeps out all “microaggressions” that are systemic, threatening, or hateful. However, these same students feel free to express their own offensive and hurtful rhetoric. With incredible vitriol, they have no problem condemning all those who oppose them as racists or bigots. They present their lists of impossible “demands” calling for the end of making distinctions (which they call “phobias”) and for the proliferation of disorders (which they call “genders”).

In the final analysis, like all true revolutionaries, these pampered children of postmodernity really want no concrete solutions. Rather they desire revolutionary changes, which will further overthrow the structures of higher learning. They ultimately want a world without structures where everything will be like their vanishing yaks. All must be ephemeral, relative, and without consequences or responsibility.

Alas, it needs to be said that the university has long forsaken its principal mission of searching for truth and forming character. It has turned itself into a machine churning out career paths, parties, and student debt. The system has produced vacuous curricula that are the breeding grounds for the Yik-Yak Revolution. Academia is merely reaping what it has sowed....

John Horvat II

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/11/the_yikyak_revolution.html#ixzz3sh2KQOsN



For a half-century, professors have privileged diversity over unity. Faculties focused more on American sins than American virtues. They fixated on the color of our skins rather than the content of our characters. Administrators watered down the curriculum, lowered standards, and appeased pampered students.
Now they are reaping the liberal whirlwind that they alone have sown.
Victor Davis Hanson


"Reap the whirlwind, Brady. Reap it.

Reap it, Murphy, you son of a bitch."
Wm H. Bonney, Young Guns

 

[Saint Peter]

another one
bites

the dust

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The first Yak of the thread.


:shrug:

 

[Saint Peter]

You were the first yak.

I am here for balance and sanity.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

YAKety YAK!



Don't talk back...

 

[Saint Peter]

Ish loves spam.

Is this strategy really going to win the war?

 

[Saint Peter]

Will you also be going down on the sword?

Are you called to do so because of duty and apprenticeship?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Get back to us when you decide to sober up and become coherent...

 

[Saint Peter]

Do you avoid my questions because you are a loyal soldier or because you are a big pussy?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Progressives delighted when Woodrow Wilson took the reins at Princeton University. The first non-clergyman to lead the Ivy League school, Wilson further secularized an institution founded on religious principles and nudged a college imparting broad knowledge into more of a university of specialized instruction. But the Virginia-born political scientist also held uncouth racial opinions, which inspires the Campus Taliban to ready their sandblasters to remove his name off Princeton’s gothic buildings.

When do the sins of the Goths coax the wrecking ball to the New Jersey campus’s arresting architecture?

The New York Times calls America’s 28th president “an unapologetic racist whose administration rolled back the gains that African-Americans achieved just after the Civil War, purged black workers from influential jobs and transformed the government into an instrument of white supremacy.”

...

http://spectator.org/articles/64787/woodrow-wilson-and-campus-taliban

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Do you avoid my questions because you are a loyal soldier or because you are a big pussy?

Get back to us when you decide to sober up and become coherent...

Incoherency mainly...



That's the problem with you Yik-Yaks and your Yakety Yak.

 

[Saint Peter]

Incontinence mainly...

You are a good soldier.

 

[Saint Peter]

Obviously you are not ready to talk about it. Yet. That is alright! We are humans. We are emotional beings.

It will get better.





http://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/

 

[Saint Peter]

...because love never dies...

 

[Saint Peter]

http://cdn.fansided.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/130/files/2013/10/reid.jpg

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Typical Yik-Yak...

No logic, no cogent argument, just emotion, sweet emotion...



Talkin' 'bout things and nobody cares!
Just spittin' out phrases like some big dares...

 

[Aella_]

Inside their tribes, these students demand to be insulated in a “safe space,” a kind of academic playpen that keeps out all “microaggressions” that are systemic, threatening, or hateful. However, these same students feel free to express their own offensive and hurtful rhetoric. With incredible vitriol, they have no problem condemning all those who oppose them as racists or bigots. They present their lists of impossible “demands” calling for the end of making distinctions (which they call “phobias”) and for the proliferation of disorders (which they call “genders”).

I enjoyed the article (soo deja vu).

Racist!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I am, like my hero, the biracial Barack Obama, a racialist.





Only white people, especially now, white liberals who run colleges, can be racists.

*chuckle*

How long before they start accusing Hillary of being a racist and the recipient of "White Privilege," and undeserving of being President of Yik-Yak America?

 

[Saint Peter]

Typical Yik-Yak...

No logic, no cogent argument, just emotion, sweet emotion...



Talkin' 'bout things and nobody cares!
Just spittin' out phrases like some big dares...

Your feelings about the freshly departed Ish are much more interesting than your tired old cut and pastes from the White Web.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Typical Yik-Yak...

No logic, no cogent argument, just emotion, sweet emotion...



Talkin' 'bout things and nobody cares!
Just spittin' out phrases like some big dares...

W'aaaaaaah. 19 year olds don't see the world the same way someone several generations removed from them do.

 

[Adre]

Your feelings about the freshly departed Ish are much more interesting than your tired old cut and pastes from the White Web.

That loony old drunk was eighty sixed again? Who's going to step up with the unintentional humor now? Where are you Vetteman???

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

19 year-olds are eating the lunch of the people who trained them to hate "their" enemies, only to discover that their little monsters have turned on Dr. Frankenstein instead, and that gives me no end of amusement and pleasure...



And yet, you and Petey are focused like lasers on the "conservatives" in your midst, because lacking a full understanding of the history of the Left, you do not realize that the more radical they become, the more intensity they focus on useful idiots in their own camp to purge before sallying forth do do battle with the "BIG" Satan.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

In short, to these "children" you are no more than Republicans trying to hide in the Democrat Party so that you will be eaten last.

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[Aella_]

That loony old drunk was eighty sixed again? Who's going to step up with the unintentional humor now?

AJ:

Are You Prepared for a Board Wide Conservative Contraction?
Have they gone to Galt's Gulch to build train sets?

Does AJ stand alone, the last bastion of objective thought amid the predatory liberal horde?

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

19 year-olds are eating the lunch of the people who trained them to hate "their" enemies, only to discover that their little monsters have turned on Dr. Frankenstein instead, and that gives me no end of amusement and pleasure...



And yet, you and Petey are focused like lasers on the "conservatives" in your midst, because lacking a full understanding of the history of the Left, you do not realize that the more radical they become, the more intensity they focus on useful idiots in their own camp to purge before sallying forth do do battle with the "BIG" Satan.

Let me be very, very clear, I'm focusing on your hypocrisy. Since you brought it up, I'll call, who & how were they trained to hate and whose lunch specifically have they eaten?