Facts Don't Care About Your Feelings

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🗓️ 10 January 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Why does it seem as if America's college campuses have totally lost it? Well, because they have. In short, feelings now rule facts, and victims are heroes. But here's a fact: If you're a college student in the United States, you're almost certainly NOT a victim. Ben Shapiro explains why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Vanderbilt University, November 2015, 200 students rise up to protests, the white privilege,
0:06.8	and microaggressions of the racist, bigoted Vanderbilt administration.
0:10.9	The protesters don't offer any specific examples of discrimination, but that doesn't
0:15.4	matter.
0:16.4	What matters is that they feel victimized.
0:18.2	The next day, a bag of dog poop shows up at the front door of the university's black
0:22.4	cultural center.
0:23.9	All hell breaks loose.
0:25.6	Full of righteous indignation, student activist groups rushed to Facebook to denounce the
0:30.2	racist act.
0:31.4	The police investigate.
0:32.5	They quickly find the person responsible, but nobody is arrested.
0:36.4	You know why?
0:37.4	Because it turns out that the bag of excrement wasn't a racist attack.
0:40.9	It was left by a blind girl with a service dog.
0:43.5	She couldn't find a trash can, so, wanting to do the responsible thing, she left the bag
0:47.7	outside the door of a nearby building, knowing a janitor would pick it up and throw it away.
0:52.1	The student group did apologize, but then they added another charge against the administration.
0:56.7	The needs of students with disabilities on this campus are also marginalized.
1:01.2	Seriously, this is not a joke.
1:03.5	On the college campus today, feelings rule facts and victims are heroes.
1:07.8	According to the left, all inequality in America is due to victimization.
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