At least one university president is standing up to the crybullies who have been taking over campuses across the country, demanding resignations and more “diversity” hires.
Dr. Everett Piper, president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University (I hadn’t heard of it either), wrote a blog post on the school’s website declaring that the university is “not a day care.”
“This past week, I actually had a student come forward after a university chapel service and complain because he felt ‘victimized’ by a sermon on the topic of 1 Corinthians 13,” Piper wrote. “It appears that this young scholar felt offended because a homily on love made him feel bad for not showing love. In his mind, the speaker was wrong for making him, and his peers, feel uncomfortable.”
Piper noted that “our kids” have become “self-absorbed and narcissistic,” believing that anyone who makes them feel bad must be a “hater” or an “oppressor.”
Piper wrote that the point of the sermon was to make the audience feel guilty. “The goal of many a good sermon is to get you to confess your sins — not coddle you in your selfishness,” he wrote.
He also gave some advice to that student and others who may be so inclined to feel so inclined to claim victimhood because they felt challenged by words: If you need to be told you’re a victim, you’re not OWU material.
“If you’re more interested in playing the ‘hater’ card than you are in confessing your own hate; if you want to arrogantly lecture, rather than humbly learn; if you don’t want to feel guilt in your soul when you are guilty of sin; if you want to be enabled rather than confronted, there are many universities across the land (in Missouri and elsewhere) that will give you exactly what you want, but Oklahoma Wesleyan isn’t one of them,” Piper wrote.
He added that OWU is “not a ‘safe space'” but a place to learn about life outside oneself and about other people and their experiences. He wrote that “the bad feeling you have while listening to a sermon is called guilt; that the way to address it is to repent of everything that’s wrong with you rather than blame others for everything that’s wrong with them.”
He concluded that his students “will quickly learn that you need to grow up.”
If only more university presidents were willing to stand up to the protesters and “safe spacers” who are demanding to be coddled rather than taught.
