No More Joking Around On College Campuses
I’m offended!
The College Fix reports.
Lighten up, buttercup: Special snowflakes on campus must learn how to take a joke
Humor is dying on campus – and it isn’t funny. Increasingly, jokes can’t be told, or laughed at, at least not without fearing backlash or a verbal lashing from the campus thought police.
As the old saying goes: “Grow thicker skin.” Or better yet: “Grow a pair.”
But instead, students, with the help of administrators, have infantilized themselves in what’s becoming the “safe space” era of college. From the padded walls of an insane asylum, we’ve reached the padded walls of a campus classroom, and now the inmates run the place.
Thanks to a combination of identity politics, hints of moral relativism and the right to victimization, college students can no longer bare any unsavory joke, satire, or tongue-in-cheek comment. We’ve reached the dawn of humorless campuses, a tragedy.
“I like to think that all jokes are okay as long as it’s making the joke about society rather than about the victim of society,” a student from a humor group, Bloomers, told the student newspaper at the University of Penn.
Herein lies the problem.
Lighten up, buttercup: Special snowflakes on campus must learn how to take a joke (The College Fix)