TRAUMATIZED SNOWFLAKES AT RYERSON U

 I never even knew I was supposed to hate white men before doing my master’s degree at Ryerson’s School of Journalism, in 2012. But I learned quickly that they were to be scorned and derided for … well, I’m still not sure exactly what. Existing? Stealing all the good journalism jobs? Never mind that my class had exactly two white males, and 26 females.

Identity politics, I see, have only become more entrenched in years since. In fact, they’ve become downright scary. Whereas when I was in school, students mostly grumbled about such things, today’s aspiring journalists have decided to take their grievances, knit them up tightly in C-4 and throw them at everything in sight.

And Ryerson, cowering from their outrage, acquiesces, doing the wrecking for them. The school’s chair, Janice Neil, an excellent professor who taught me broadcast journalism, and associate chair Lisa Taylor both resigned this weekend just before a letter signed by more than 150 current and former students was published online Monday morning.

Reading this letter you would think these aspiring journalists attended an orphanage from the Jane Eyre era instead of a modern, urban university. They speak of trauma, a poisoned environment, how unsafe it is and how they have been silenced and belittled.