View Full Version : College Campuses compared to the Army..
Marlboro
11-25-2015, 15:01
Oy.
To put political correctness on college campuses in some actual perspective—terrible scourge, or media hysteria?—it helps to look at another institution that houses and trains a lot of angry and hormonal 18- to 24-year-olds: the U.S. military.
While caring about 'feelings' strikes some as frivolous in a university setting, it seems, the Army thinks it’s mission critical.
https://newrepublic.com/article/124303/think-campus-pc-control-look-military
lol
From the piece:
"The Army even asks leaders to care when soldiers are offended for no good reason, saying they should be careful with metaphors “even when the expressions originally had nothing to do with race, for example ‘blackballed,’ or ‘white lie,’ or ‘white wash.’"
Snip
Absurd. "Hey, I didn't micro-offend you when I told you to fall out in Dress Whites, did I, Sar'nt?"
(I realize they probably did away with dress whites-I don't keep up with anything the military does, anymore.)
Marlboro
11-25-2015, 15:13
The Army has this fantastic thing called a chapter.. If you're an emotional freak, it can be activated in as little as 1 month!
If one joins the military because "all of his friends were doing it" and then realizes he can't embrace the suck...then let him out...because I wouldn't want him next to me.
But...college campuses embrace that mindset...whereas the military tries to rid itself of them.
At least for now they somewhat do, but, I see that mindset slowly eroding away!
The Army has this fantastic thing called a chapter.. If you're an emotional freak, it can be activated in as little as 1 month!
I think I set record while at Fort Carson. Had a dude chaptered from initiation to out the door in 48 hours. Whack job. Greased the skids and away he went....
blacksmoke
11-25-2015, 20:47
I litterally quit reading after the sub title. Don't think combat soldiers tell or want to hear bigoted jokes? Get fricken real. If you can't hang, you're probably a fag.
Geez Louise! When I was on Okinawa, we had 2 guys, one Polish and one Italian, who had loose leaf notebooks full of Wop and Pollock jokes. Those two guys were the best entertainment EVER! We'd just sit in the bay and listen to them insult each other for hours.
What has this country come to when you can't even insult your best friend for a laugh?
And no, youngsters, pink font is not necessary. We weren't so thin-skinned back then. (How do you sharpen a knife?)
Pat
x SF med
11-26-2015, 09:25
Wow... offensive jokes? Life on a Team is one long offensive joke... based on anything and everything.
What is the world coming to? Whenever I get together with vets/military people (men or women) political correctness runs away and hides in a democratic state on the other side of the country, it's that scared of what will transpire. Then we break out libations and it runs away to France or England.
The Reaper
11-26-2015, 09:29
I think I set record while at Fort Carson. Had a dude chaptered from initiation to out the door in 48 hours. Whack job. Greased the skids and away he went....
Same here.
The kid typed up his clearing papers Thursday morning, and was out by 1600 Friday.
That boy loved his weed more than being a soldier.
TR
miclo18d
11-26-2015, 10:45
I had a 1SG that kept a stack of Burger King applications. He told me he was on a mission to get rid of as many crappy soldiers that he could! He had it down pretty good! :D