One of the many problems of advertising your hypersensitivity is that you will quickly become what the internet calls a ‘lolcow’ — a creature that can be milked again and again for easy laughs.
This week, the coddled campus social justice warriors of America fell into the lolcow trap.
As first Yale and then the University of Missouri descended into a frenzy of political correctness, commentators from the conservative right to the liberal left expressed their horror at the new intolerance of the U.S student population. Scathing editorials condemning campus radicals appeared everywhere from New York Magazine to The Atlantic to Breitbart.
Others preferred to laugh as the world burns, and so the conservative blogger and social media sensation @iowahawkblog called on fellow tweeters to make the 10th of November “#NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay.”
Let's make tomorrow #NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) November 10, 2015
Twitter jumped straight on the mockery train of the hypersensitive. The hashtag approached 35,000 tweets by Tuesday evening. Here are some of the best examples:
Hey hey / ho ho / your whiny bullshit has got to go #NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) November 10, 2015
If you don't like being ridiculed, stop being ridiculous. #NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) November 10, 2015
I disagree with you. #NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay
— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) November 10, 2015
America is pretty great, really. #NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay
— Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) November 10, 2015
#NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay Some people don't agree with everything you think. BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA
— WhatCouldGoWrongHat (@Popehat) November 10, 2015
https://twitter.com/ZombieNeith/status/664093762642145284
Want to close wage gap? Step one: Change your major from feminist dance therapy to electrical engineering. #NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay
— Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) November 10, 2015
#NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay
your degree in gender studies directly contributes to widening the wage gap have a nice day
— shoe (@shoe0nhead) November 10, 2015
#NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay
The biggest challenge in your life is remembering to insert your new credit card instead of swipe
— lo fi Furby.jpg to relax/study/game to (@duckspeakeasy) November 10, 2015
https://twitter.com/LoMein00dle/status/664141267379458048
https://twitter.com/RachelHaywire/status/664130284577689600
Western civilizations are not rape cultures. Deal with it. #NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay
— Steven (@TheGamingVillas) November 11, 2015
American college students are among the most privileged humans on the planet #NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay
— JD (@GodTexasCountry) November 10, 2015
You put yourself $120,000 in debt for this?#NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay
— Best Mom Eva (@mombot) November 11, 2015
*breathes patriarchally* #NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay
— David Skotte (@DavidSkotte) November 11, 2015
https://twitter.com/Verdius/status/664166993751216128
DISCLOSURE: This reporter also got in on the lulz.
#NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay there are facts.
— Allum Bokhari (@LibertarianBlue) November 10, 2015
Some police officers are not racist. #NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay
— Allum Bokhari (@LibertarianBlue) November 10, 2015
Islamic countries do bad things occasionally. #NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay
— Allum Bokhari (@LibertarianBlue) November 10, 2015
I once held hands with a girl and didn't ask first. #NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay
— Allum Bokhari (@LibertarianBlue) November 10, 2015
#NationalOffendACollegeStudentDay white cis heterosexual males.
— Allum Bokhari (@LibertarianBlue) November 10, 2015
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