Wherein I help self-involved little brats perfect their game.

Some Columbia University students . Which right off the bat brings a warm smile to your face doesn’t it? They are “” at stuff and this is what they want:

We demand a Core Curriculum that is inclusive not only of the canon of Western European thought, but that seeks to build a deep understanding of the multicultural society that we live in and the power relations that constitute it.

We demand a sustainable expansion that does not displace 5,000 people and bulldoze a neighborhood in Harlem, one of the most important communities in the United States.

We demand an administration that is responsive to institutional racism, supports its students, and proactively works to create a climate in which nooses and swastikas are not the order of the day.

We demand support and autonomy for the Ethnic Studies program, which is crucial to a critical intellectual experience in a progressive university.

Until now, our demands have been ignored. Now we strike. Students are launching a HUNGER STRIKE to transform our university.

It is reported that the students “said they would not break their fast until the school committed to a core curriculum that includes a seminar addressing issues of ‘racialization and colonialism,’ among their other demands.”

Well these poor kids. Why won’t anybody do what they say? Those mean grown-ups need to learn a lesson or two, and these kids are the ones to teach them. Starving yourself is well known as one of the most effective ways of getting what you want - right? - but it might not break the cold unbending hearts of the racist, noose-and-swastika-lovin’ administration.

In my capacity as a very important and internationally influential blogger, I believe I can help these little turds achieve their dreams if the hunger strike fails. Refusing to eat is only one arrow in the successful brat’s quiver. Many other options should be explored:

1. Go to the chancellor’s office, hand him your list of demands, cross your arms over your chest, take a big breath, and hold it while staring defiantly at The Man. Awe him with your puffy-cheeked, red-faced demonstration of your commitment to diversity and justice.

2. Gather several “outraged” students together on the main lawn of the campus and as a collective harmonic oneness, all of you throw yourselves to the ground in the prone position, make tiny fists of rage with your soft, pasty hands, and beat on the ground with those fists as you scream. If immediate curriculum adjustments aren’t made to your specifications, begin kicking the ground, as well. Crying may be necessary if the administration is as racist and imperialistic as we suspect.

3. When you go to your classes, do not participate whatsoever. Sit with your arms folded over your chest, your head down, and your bottom lip sticking out further than your top one. When the professor asks you a question, do not answer, just continue to frown and stare at the floor. If professor asks you what’s wrong, mutter “nothin’, leave me alone”. If he or she continues to prod, suddenly jump out of your chair and run away and out the door, possibly as you begin to burst into tears. See #5 for the followup maneuver.

4. Gather all the outraged students and go to the cafeteria. Get your meals and be seated. If the university still hasn’t capitulated to your wishes, as one you should all throw down your forks, sandwiches, or whatever you’re holding, scrunch your faces up real hard, breathlessly catch a couple of sobs, and then suddenly wail out a long cry of impotent frustration. Sob loudly and with tears, and remember that snot running down your lip and into your mouth only makes you look more pitiful and therefore more powerful, because who can say no to a wailing little titty-baby?

5. Run to your dorm buildings, enter, and slam the doors hard. Stomp down the halls or up the stairs to your individual rooms, enter, turn around and shout back through your open door, “I hate you!” and quickly slam the door. Hard. Pop your earbuds in and listen to death metal or emo music with your Ipod while writing angry poetry in a notebook that you hide under your mattress.

These techniques require maximum commitment to the art of being a spoiled little arrogant shit-ass brat. Frankly, you should consider adding to your list of DEMANDS! that they add a liberal arts course to the curriculum on precisely this subject, as I’m sure your parents would be happy to pay good money for you to learn how to run around acting like petulant assholes good and proper.

63 Responses to “Wherein I help self-involved little brats perfect their game.”

  1. This is a thing of beauty.


  2. I say, let the little darlings starve. Mommy and Daddy must be so proud (unfortunately some of them probably are and that’s what makes me really sad) .


  3. Columbia,

    Aren’t these the guys who invited Imadinnerjacket to speak?

    Fuck’em let the bastards starve.

    Bet they last about as long that tub-o-lard Cindy Sheehan did on her hunger strike.


  4. oh for chrissakes, I had to read this twice to make sure it wasn’t some sort of satire. And at Columbia?? Are you kidding me? These kids need a good ass whoopin’.


  5. A good administrator would know how to turn that frown upside down. “Awww. Has oo gotta pouty lip? Careful, or a bird will come perch on that lip.”

    Nothing annoys like a good pout ruined by an inadverant laugh.


  6. I’ve never understood how a hunger strike could be expected to work on anybody besides the parents of a child under age three.

    The first time I heard about somebody doing that, I was like “…so this doesn’t hurt anybody but them? They’ll be hungry, is the sole consequence? … so what?”

    That’s pretty much still my conclusion.


  7. I think that everyone who goes on a hunger strike should be completely obliged.


  8. Support and autonomy for the ethnic studies department? Yeah, I’m sooooo sure the students came up with that demand on their own, COMPLETELY un-prompted by professors in the ethnic studies department. And really, you don’t need to demand autonomy for the ethnic studies department; they’re free to resign from their posts at Columbia, band together and start selling their services teaching ethnic studies at a college they can create for themselves, giving them all the autonomy they want. :::chokes back laughter:::::

    And every time I hear or see the phrase “institutional racism” is automatically translates itself in my mind to “the white man is ALWAYS keepin’ da’ black man down”. Institutional racism is a concept by which every white person is automatically racist, no matter how much they don’t use racial slurs or how accepting of other cultures they are, and it means every single institution is automatically racist if it was set up by a white guy. It’s a term that basically loads the deck against a white person being non-racist.

    But by all means, Columbia students, please continue the great tradition of Cindy Sheehan and go on with your hunger strikes. I’ll expect to see you at “Weight Watchers” next week.


  9. Are they going to do the hunger strike in public I hope? That way I can go watch, preferably while eating something……


  10. What they should do is this;
    1) Fence off the area. ‘Pissants go in but they dont come out.’
    2) Hose them down with OC spray.
    3) Beat 7 kinds of shit out of them.
    4) Repeat 2 & 3 as needed/wanted.
    5) Throw the candyass, no good shitheads out.

    Then, just for fun, *sue* their parents. For not doing their jobs. And sending the spoiled little fuckwits to a place where they will ruin things for those who want to learn.

    Mayhap look into the whole thing, and if anyone else was involved. Like the ethnic studies department, well then. See above.

    If I had a kid going there, first thing I’d do is look into some kind of refund. These jackasses are the hope for the future? Somebody save me a good spot in the handbasket.


  11. It’s unfortunate that the shrill idiots get all the press, since the overall trend amongst college students since 2000 has been more towards middle-line libertarianism. Really, most kids my age aren’t slobbering Communists.

    But the really loud, bratty ones are.

    And also, there are a fair number of clueless among our ranks as well…but I suspect that’s true of every generation.

    Still, I’ve got my taser fully charged and ready to go!


  12. Maybe Columbia can get Dog, the Bounty Hunter to negotiate with these twits. He’s got a little time on his hands lately, and he seems to be sensitive to racial issues.

    jk ;D


  13. Ed seyd:
    “What they should do is this;
    1) Fence off the area. ‘Pissants go in but they dont come out.’
    2) Hose them down with OC spray.
    3) Beat 7 kinds of shit out of them.
    4) Repeat 2 & 3 as needed/wanted.
    5) Throw the candyass, no good shitheads out.”

    As much fun as that would be, your average liberal hippie actually thrives on the idea that it lives in a police state. The US is the country with the most actual freedom in the entire world, and they still paint it as a police state right up there with the Stalin’s Russia or Mao’s China (the irony being they then try to defend these same character’s regimes). Even if cops arrest people for actually breaking laws, or companies fire people for valid reasons, it gives the liberal hippie ammunition for saying we live in police states or our lives are controlled by corporations. For example, I saw a story on Democratic Underground today were a 30-year employee of Taco Bell was fired and got no kind of severance package. All the comments by the DUmmies were in favor of the woman and against the company that owned this Taco Bell, even though the woman had two previous unsatisfactory reports, which included not keeping up the maintenance on the building and improper food handling. You’d think with beef and vegetable recalls lately that someone would notice the improper food handling charge and think this is a valid reason to fire the manager, but nope.
    Being a victim gets liberals off.


  14. I agree wholeheartedly with Michael! Roadtrip anyone? So who’s driving? :)


  15. I DEMAND that someone pay my rent this month!
    I DEMAND that someone feed my kids!
    I DEMAND that my boss let me read Rachl Lukis at work!

    Where do I send my demands?


  16. Probably your boss. But I’m sure he’d refer you to Sam Wan Hu Givzadam.


  17. Hmmm… is there a fund I can donate to for someone to hold a giant outdoor BBQ next to these morons?


  18. Dope smoking liberal kids on a hunger strike, eh? What will they do when the muchies kick in? “Dude, I’m really into social justice and all, but right now I could eat an entire box of Ritz crackers.”


  19. “You see, professor, I really deserved an A in this class, but I was participating in this hunger strike and so in my weakened state, I was only able to get a C-. Please change may grade in the name of social justice, ‘n stuff.”


  20. Are they going to do the hunger strike in public I hope? That way I can go watch, preferably while eating something……

    The only thing more fun than eating a big chili dog in front of someone on a hunger strike is eating a big chili dog in front of a PETA protest. : )


  21. But what’s going to happen when they get hungry? I’m willing to bet it will be the shortest public hunger strike in living memory.


  22. Out of curiousity, does anyone know if this is an actual hunger strike where they don’t eat at all, or a Sheehan type where one actually eats things like Jamba Juice and ice cream?


  23. Students are launching a HUNGER STRIKE to transform our university.

    Into what? A campus where the girls don’t have torsos that look like muffin tops?

    We demand support and autonomy for the Ethnic Studies program, which is crucial to a critical intellectual experience in a progressive university.

    Uh, hello-ooo-ooo? Remember Ward Churchill? And don’t forget that “intellectual experience” is an oxymoron in this context.


  24. I recently met a woman who starved herself to get her way.

    She was a Chinese refugee who came to the U.S. with her son seeking polical asylum.

    Before she became pregnant, she was imprisoned under trumped up charges and sentenced to death. She was sent to a labor camp used to keep political prisoners alive until a match for their tissue type comes up for organ harvesting.

    She was raped by prison guards and impregnated.

    In order to keep herself from being gutted like a fish, she put herself and her unborn son on hunger strike. You see, if you let your body chemistry get out of whack enough, it messes up your organs. That is, your own organs shut down and become unusable.

    After a few months, she was so forgone physically they couldn’t sell her for parts. Days before her scheduled execution, she fell unconscious from hunger and, thought to be dead, was simply thrown out with the trash. Amazingly, she came to and made her escape.

    Miraculously, her pregnancy continued. She gave birth to a child who, because of the abuse her body took, will always be handicapped.

    Now she is in the United States and is travelling with others like her to spread the word about what really happens in the “People’s Republic.”

    So you kids at Columbia, think about that as you slurp down your Jamba Juice, bought with the money Mummsie and Daddie put into your trust fund, in anticipation of the long day of fasting for multicultural justice.


  25. I feel bad for them. Stories like this just make me want to help them out with some sewing supplies and crazy glue.

    Hippie with a sign? Wimp.

    Hippie on the verge of passing out, trying to ram a straw through his cheek? Effective political statement.


  26. I have a solution for the problem. It is called ass kicking! I can’t believe how these young adults (and I use the term adults with a healthy dose of sarcasm) behave. I’m not much older than these people, and if my parents saw I was wasting their money at university I feel very certain they would have taken the time out of their day to come to see me in person and “set me straight” about my actions. Those damn spoiled, ungrateful, ignorant brats!


  27. These children have been so well educated by the university that they do not understand ‘petitioning’, ’student council’, ‘zoning law’, ‘voting’, or ‘city government’. The democratic process is a mystery to those who have been educated in these Socialist Indoctrination Academies like Columbia where they glamorize Ahmadinejad and demonize Israel.

    On the other hand there are only five of them. Five little whiny babies who know nothing about city government or university administration who stomp their widdle feet and make blue-faced demands from a postion of a person afflicted with Munchausens. “I hurt! I am a victim of my own stupidity and cupidity.”

    Do these five beleive they are supreme court justices who can get what they want by hallucinating law from the ‘emantations of the penumbras’? Universities no longer teach people how to live in the world. This is what they teach under the NEA.


  28. The ultimate game of chicken that a loser lefty can never win, sweet.


  29. I live too far away to do anything about this, but if I could I’d be right in there with Michael, Ryan Frank, and mightysamurai. A Whopper with Cheese and large fries, munched while standing in front of the hunger-striking students, would be great fun.


  30. You know the whole hunger strike thing goes back to one of their heroes, Ghandhi. Not that that means anything, just saying.


  31. I ate ribeye with creamed corn and a baked potato in their honor this morning.


  32. You know the whole hunger strike thing goes back to one of their heroes, Ghandhi.

    Too true.

    But there’s one crucial difference between them and Ghandhi. Namely that Ghandhi was ready, willing, and able to die for his beliefs. He was willing to look down the barrel of a British rifle and say, “Shoot me. I won’t resist.” These crybabies don’t have the principles or the testicles necessary to do that.

    I give them about a day and a half before they start sneaking bags of Doritos and Little Debbie snack cakes.


  33. There is akind of Twisted Russian Joke to this.

    In Maoist China between the years 1962 and 1964, 15 million people starved to death as the Red Guard destroyed crops, ovens, cooking supplies, and intercepted transportation of food (The Black Book of Communism).

    In America, people starve themselves!


  34. Whenever I have encountered this kind of behavior, I have supportively offered to go on what I call an “air fast”: I hold my breath until I turn a bit purple. It’s a great way to express solidarity, it’s really appreciated by the offended souls (I think), and you don’t have to miss any meals.


  35. If I don’t have a lot of sympathy for the starvers or for their idiotic demands, does that make me a bad person? OK. I can live with that.
    How about if I think that if my son did something like that, that he would very quickly find himself on the operator’s end of a shovel, looking at an as-yet unfinished ditch and wondering what he is going to do now: with no college education and no gravy train to ride now that daddy cut off the money faucet and he’s discovering where money (filthy lucre!) really comes from? Am I bad now? OK!
    How about if I sent him to see the Army recruiter to find out about their GI Bill/ college savings program works? Yeah!! I’m bad! I’m bad!!


  36. So the Columbia five think they are on a par with Gandhi? To me it looks like exhibitionism. Now we know where kids go to get lessons in moral preening. Which is the real pith in social justice anyway. A chance for liberals to do public penance for our societal sins. And why not? It’s a cost-free way to expatiate oneself without leaving the comforts of home. After all, fighting real social injustices, say in Burma, or Darfur, or Iran, can lead to all sorts of inconveniences. Like imprisonment, torture, or even death. And as with most liberal causes, public sentiment is far more important than actually accomplishing something.


  37. We can only hope that Columbia U goes the way of Antioch. Sweet!

    Also, the students really wanted to win, they should check to see if Michael Moore is willing to join their hunger strike - that fat sucker could last for years with no food!


  38. Wait a couple of days and sent over several boxes of donuts and bagels. Make sure that you have blue collar looking white guys wearing “I’m a hetero, are you single?” on their tee shirts.

    That should get the stomach juices flowing and the mouths frothing.


  39. I have never understood the concept of a “hunger strike”. You harm/punish yourself to make a point. I say we just need to turn the other cheek. They won’t starve to death they will drop a few pounds. Life is so black and white, right and wrong to college kids.


  40. Unfortunately, college faculties are heavily dominated by people who’ll never get over their glory days out protesting in the 1960s. I’ve often thought, bitterly, that if it hadn’t been for the asswitted tenure regulations, a lot of fossil 1930s-era radicals could have been kicked out of academia in the 1950s, instead of poisoning the minds of a whole generation (look at stuff from the ’30s, and you’ll see precursors of just about everything the “Sixties generation” did.)

    And I’d bet that if Columbia was planning to expand into my scruffy-but-lily-white neighborhood, these dimwits wouldn’t care. What makes Harlem so bloody special, anyway?


  41. We are at war. Or we SEEM to be at war. What are these lame ass bastard’s fighting for? Ignore them is one option, the other is to kick their ass off campus and back into the real world where they have to learn to earn a living.


  42. dfwmtx, yeh I know. But just ONCE I would like to see people like this given something to cry about. If these meatheads knew just how good they have it. God forbid anyone in charge there tells them to shut up or get out. Or at least say they’ll meet the demands. BUT the whiny5 have to pay for it. Lets see how much they really ‘care’.

    “It’s a cost-free way to expatiate oneself without leaving the comforts of home. After all, fighting real social injustices, say in Burma, or Darfur, or Iran, can lead to all sorts of inconveniences. Like imprisonment, torture, or even death. And as with most liberal causes, public sentiment is far more important than actually accomplishing something.”
    - BasilRiverdale

    And thats just it. They get to brag about how daring they are, without leaving their playstations. And all the little pinko wannabes hero worship them, for being oh so brave, and caring. If it helps, I’ll pony up some money to send them somewhere. With the understanding that they protest without the cameras around. And somewhere like you said.

    The thing that really bugs me, is the ones who really do try to make life better for others. The ones who put the time and effort into what they believe in. You’ll never hear about. If the MSM would talk about them, maybe things would get better.


  43. There are protesting students in Venezuela right now, hiding from Chaves death squads. The results of their protest may be a bullet rather than a growling stomachs. Perhaps a trade, the Columbia students, plus an undisclosed amount of cash and a first round draft pick, in return for the Venezuelan students, who only want freedom from tyranny. Of course we’d have to make the Venezuelans promise to eat when they get here.


  44. Absolutely hilarious! Skewer them!


  45. Isn’t it interesting that this sort of babyish behavior exists on one of the most–if not the most–liberal college campuses in America. The faculty is a who’s who in radical liberal “thinking” and a veritable cornucopia of nuts (give Horowitz’s “The Professors” a read and you’ll see most of the faculty in its pages). They ought to hunger strike for the ability to be taught more than one side of an argument and not get penalized for dissension of opinion.

    That I’d like to see.

    In the mean time, I’ll raise a ceremonial forkful of prime rib, a generous spoonful of mashed potatoes and slosh it down with the beverage of my choice.

    Bon appetit, kooks!


  46. Hunger strikes work in two ways - first, those in power care about you and are not so committed to thier positions that they will allow you to hurt yourself. They change the position, strike over, win-win. Second, those in power care about thier image in light of bad publicity and change policies. Not a win-win, but easy to portray as such.

    What often happens, tho, is that those in power ARE committed to their policies and 1) force feed the strikers, as we do in Gitmo, or 2) the strikers starve and either quit (most likely) or die, as did Bobby Sands, an IRA killer who died in prison.

    These petulant jibbering morons will get their way or, lacking that, quit, declare a “moral victory” and bask in the warm glow of their “courage” to “speak truth to power!”

    Right arm, maaaaan! Hey, pass me a veggie wrap!


  47. In other words, they demand that everyone be educated to be more like them — sounds like try-outs for Islam to me. If I were paying for a kid to go to Columbia ($25K+ each year,) and I found out they were involved in this — they would be mopping the floor at the hometown McDonald’s the next day.


  48. I’m sure your parents would be happy to pay good money for you to learn how to run around acting like petulant assholes good and proper.

    I’d say that boat done sailed….


  49. The first comment over on Ms. Malkin’s page was my first thought. Eat there in front of them. Set up a barbecue and sell food so others can sit there and eat and watch the protesters. Darn _good_ barbecue with the aromas wafting towards the moonbats.

    Maybe fried chicken too.


  50. I have decided to show some solidarity with the Columbia protesters. For every day that they keep up their heroic struggle, I will an extra, greasy piece of fried chicken. My gluttony will balance out their sacrifice.

    Just doin’ my part.


  51. We should help them with their hunger strike. How about eating a good peperoni pizza right in front of them. Then wash it down with a nice brewski. LOL


  52. I’m no dimbulb, and I certainly don’t have a Columbia University sheepskin hanging on my wall, but I’ll be dipped in shit if I can understand what even one of their “demands” actually means. I guess I’ll need to spend a few hours thumbing through my copy of Funk and Wagnall’s Liberal Dictionary. Or maybe have a sandwich.

    Marko


  53. I once saw where someone had done a comparrison of what sorts of things came our of Europe, the Middle East and Africa at the same periods of time in history.

    Europe was continually coming out with new and complicated technology, art, music, literature, etc.

    The Middle East was incredible (giving us such things as the decimal system) UNTIL Islam started to spread and that destroyed everything and left them permanently in the 7th century or so.

    Africa never had much more than a few beads and pre-historic looking artifacts.

    So exactly what history from anywhere else can hold a candle to Europe and the US? There isn’t any.

    Let them starve!!!! In fact, lets put them in a pen and set up a nice Texas BBQ smoker right next door.


  54. The cool thing about hunger strikes is, unlike riots and massive protests, they don’t hurt anyone but themselves. I say we should let them starve to their hearts content. After all, it’s not like they have a job or anything important they might have to do.

    Oh, and that list is very funny. I’m suprised they havn’t already tried #3. Seems like it would be right up their alley


  55. Hey, that’s good practice. The little nancys will learn about hunger before they take their Cultural Studies degree into the big, bad world to try to make a living.

    Columbia University: the Northeast’s training center for future TGI Friday’s employees!


  56. I’m with Techno.

    Why’s Harlem so important, again, specifically and specially?

    Then again, they want a “progressive” university, so maybe we’re all better off if they either a) starve to death or b) give up without getting anything.

    Rich: Ten to one most of ‘em are vegetarians or vegans anyway.

    Lukie: Hunger strikes work against civilized opposition (or uncivilized, if the civilized world is watching and the uncivilized people fear repercussions of some sort), if the cause is significant and people sympathise with the strikers, just like civil disobedience.

    The problem here is that the strikers think the tactic is what’s effective, not the underlying cause it points to. (Or, being isolated in a “progressive” bubble, they radically overestimate the support they’ll get.)

    If most people’s reaction is “let ‘em get hungry, the overreacting, petulant twits”, not “how terrible that their government/school/whatever is oppressing them so drastically”, they’ve already failed.


  57. Let’s see, they are avoiding the freshman fifteen. What’s the problem? If they aren’t attending classes, they will fail and they or their parents will end up paying Columbia thousands more to repeat the semester.

    “Stop me before I hurt myself” only works if the audience is sympathetic.


  58. “Stop me before I hurt myself” only works if the audience is sympathetic.

    This seems to me to be like that idiot in Florida saying, “Come one step closer and I’ll tase myself.”

    ZZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


  59. Rich: Ten to one most of ‘em are vegetarians or vegans anyway.

    All for the better.

    When worse comes to worse, even the most hardcore vegans and vegetarians have been known to partake of meat and other animal products.

    If we can get them salivating over a big juicy steak, we might well convert them from vegetarianism in addition to messing up their little hissy-fit.


  60. I have the perfect solution to those students. GO TO ANOTHER COLLEGE!!!!! This way your poor egos wont be hurt by other students actually learning things and advancing past you. I’m sure Stanford or USC or William and Mary or Princeton would be more to your liking.


  61. Sigivald: Of course those “students” dont know what they are talking about. Their “demands” come right out of some idiotic socialist/communist training video. Their demands are non sensicle and worthless. Their tactics are stupid and ignorant. The “students” are pathetic.


  62. I think they oughta go the route of the Buddhist monks in Viet Nam…you know, set themselves on fire. THAT would show them. Not only that, but be entertaining and raise the overall IQ of the country. A complete win-win situation.


  63. I’ll be an evil little shit and say that I hope they lose enough weight so that I can read the newspaper through them. Sometimes the glare from the overhead light bothers me, so a little 5 inch waistline might be just the thing to save my eyes.


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