Sheryl Mcintosh's Blog: Friday Light Relief: a Belly-Laugh from the SJWs

So over in the US of A, where they are sore afflicted by student lunacy of both the pitiful snowflake variety and the pernicious SJW kind, there is a 'liberal arts college' just north of New York City in Yonkers, NY called Sarah Lawrence College. (I presume that good lady has long since spun herself clean out of her grave.) Students are predominantly female (are we allowed to say that?), a legacy from the early days when it was founded as a women's college. 45 US States and 53 countries are represented in the student body. From their website:

Its pedagogy ... a rigorous personalized approach to education, modeled on the tutorial system of Oxford University and the theories of educator and philosopher John Dewey. These educational strategies continue at Sarah Lawrence today ... Our students are men and women who share an enthusiasm for intellectual rigor

Right. Well kindly don't blame Oxford for what's happening just now; and don't be too quick to claim 'intellectual rigor', either. The SJWs there have assembled a long, long list of impossibilist (and deeply illiberal) demands in the name of the Diaspora Coalition, under the ringing slogan: If the College does not accept these demands, it will no longer be hailed as a progressive institution but instead remembered for its inability to truly embody its self-proclaimed progressive ideology and support all students against an international rising tide of white supremacy and fascism.

We demand a mandatory first-year orientation session about intellectual elitism and classism
We demand that the College offer classes that embody intersectionality, as defined by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, and address the racial diversity of the LGBTQ+ community instead of centering whiteness

And so it goes on, for 94 pages. Have a laugh and read them all in a quiet moment, it's awful and highly predictable stuff - or, just possibly, satire and spoof, but I doubt it. Rigor? Rigor mortis, more like. But it is all made worthwhile by the following cri de coeur, nestling incongruously amongst the blood-curdling sub-Maoist drivel and rant:

All campus laundry rooms are to supply laundry detergent and softener on a consistent basis for all students, faculty and staff.

Hurrah! Picture the scene: everyone is sitting cross-legged on the floor, taking it in turns to denounce President Cristle Collins Judd (sic) as a racist cisgender purveyor of actual harm to LGBTQI+'s of color everywhere ... when Angielou-Maybelle LaTrine declares for the fourteenth time: err, sisters, what about the laundry detergent? - we should demand softener! And it must be replenished every week. And it must be Fragrant RosePetal fragrance. Every time! Not just whatever the drugstore has on discount. Sisters? Sisters ..?

OK honey, yeah, whatever. We'll include the detergent, yeah ... yes, and the softener, OK? Now, about those facist m***********s ...

ND