The President of Oklahoma Wesleyan University had a message for students who were “offended” and “victimized” by a sermon. As Todd Starnes notes:
instead of capitulating to the offended young scholar, OWU President Everett Piper pushed back with a blistering rebuke of what he called “self-absorbed and narcissistic” students.
“This is not a day care. This is a university,” he wrote in a blog that has since gone viral.
Back home in Tennessee, we call that a “Come to Jesus” moment.
“Our culture has actually taught our kids to be this self-absorbed and narcissistic,” he wrote. “Any time their feelings are hurt, they are victims! Anyone who dares challenge them and, thus, makes them ‘feel bad’ about themselves, is a ‘hater,’ a ‘bigot,’ an ‘oppressor,’ and a ‘victimizer.’”
This move is a stunning, welcome departure from the norm. In the last few months, college professors have been attempting to engage these students or indulge them, reinforcing the notion that complete emotional meltdowns in response to innocuous everyday items or symbols that vaguely invoke historical injustices are just fine. Let’s hope that Piper’s move is the beginning of a new trend.
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