College campuses as safe spaces for students

[DReg350]

The Yele lecturer who defended the "right to offend" resigned yesterday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-race-yale-idUSKBN0TR1S120151208

The dangerous part about demanding what you want is that you might actually get it.

All together now...

 

[Abacinator]

Triggered!

 

[RRR70]

Those students in for the big surprise called real life. Imagine how they will react at their first job after graduation when customer gives them a stefn words for making his frappuchino with regular milk instead of soy one.

 

[DReg350]

Ah. They'll just have their Mommy show up for the performance review to assert how unfair the employer standards are, affirm how special Jr. is, and proclaim how lucky the employer is to have Jr... right before demanding a raise and promotion.

 

[gnahc79]

Did you bother reading or just looked at the source and didn't click? They quote and link both the local Minnesota student paper and the Washington post, among others who reported the story.

http://www.mnrepublic.com/msa-rejects-moment-of-recognition-resolution-for-911/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-part-potential-perpetuation-of-islamophobia/

looks like the administration set things right:
http://www.mnrepublic.com/better-la...s-statement-of-support-for-911-commemoration/

After more than two weeks of national attention, the Minnesota Student Association (MSA) finally passed a statement of support for a 9/11/2001 campus-wide commemoration on Tuesday, November 24.

In the forum on November 10, MSA had rejected a resolution calling for the University of Minnesota to implement a Moment of Recognition on campus on future anniversaries of 9/11. Late last week, the university’s administration issued a statement informing the public that the university would hold a 9/11 commemoration event regardless of whether MSA passed the resolution today.

Noah Hummel-Hall, the student Group Representative for Lingo, a linguistics club, argued that the statement of support would set a dangerous precedent for MSA, as the organization does not currently commemorate other national tragedies.

“Three things, you know like the Rosewood Massacre that we’re not having a Moment of Recognition for on campuses, you know we have the Trail of Tears that I don’t think we have a Moment of Recognition for on campus recognized by the university,” said Hummel-Hall, “And we have what – 18 billion, 600 million non-human animals slaughtered every year and we don’t recognize that. You know, so we have a lot of, a lot of lives that are being lost on American soil that we’re not recognizing.”

 

[RRR70]

Non-human animals. That's our future speaking. Linguistic club. They should fap less and get out and live more.

 

[MrIncredible]

Doesn't sound like they're cunning linguists.

 

[tuxumino]

Doesn't sound like they're cunning linguists.

if they were Pastafarians they could be cunning linguineists

 

[Nahullo]

I got as far as page 11, but …

Btw this is a quote from the letter send by the students to Yale about the costumes like dr Gaad Saad said. This people from the regressive left worship at the altar of "no offense" willing to sacrifice anything to it.
Free speech and freedom of expression seems especially not only irrelevant but quite antagonistic to their cause.

I'll call bull shit on this... This is not about left right - its about level-setting expectations with spoiled brats. "... students are increasingly engaging in a culture of “vindictive protectiveness” that seeks to control campus speech in a way that not only limits free expression and chills candor..." Because they have been coddled by parents and society to avoid any sense of personal responsibility. Everyone gets a trophy - for one reason - so no one feels like they were left out. Its not a left or right thing its the failure of parents, and the village, to raise grown-ups. People who act like adults by the time they get to college.

Vilifying your opponent is much easier than civil discussion and compromise

A lesson the kids learned from us grown folks. Ever seen the level of animosity this high between libs and conservs? There are few talking about (or trying to find) middle ground.

They are the tea party of the left lol

I think we start calling the Regressive Left, the "Dirty Sanchez Party". That seems offensive in so many ways its likely to cause spontaneous combustion on colleges across the realm...

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“As for me, I think that they’re clowns, and worse than that, really: They’re bad citizens, and defective people from defective families. They aren’t motivated by good will, but by fear: of the dawning realization that they, as people, aren’t really all that important, despite having been told all their lives how important they are.” http://www.nationalreview.com/yale-free-speech-protest-ironic

I’ll be damned - Kevin D. Williamson with National Review nailed it (in part)…

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Sometimes you gotta call spade a spade.

You can take the Russian out of Russia, but you can't take Russia out of the Russian (or wrest the Crimea from them) [hope you are not offended by my clearly incorrect assertion that you are a Russian]

He is LITERALLY claiming colleges damage those who attend. He LITERALLY says they do damage. How is that not a negative?

I think you are taking his “share of damage” comment as an essay on the entire college experience. I took it that too many colleges are coddling these kids - which is what the email stated that started the Dirt Sanchez death spiral into the smoking crater at Yale….

 

[Ogier le Danois]

Kevin williamson is my hero.