Trigger warnings, safe spaces, and fascism on college campuses

[Uncle Ted]

I also love the guy who says "She's a professor" to egg her on and then she repeats the line a couple more times.

I think she lost the crowd when she screamed, "THIS IS F***'N HATE!!!"

Given this is NYU, one of the liberal hell holes in the country, I am thinking she won't be fired for this little lecture of NYPD. Instead by the end of the week I expect she will be asked to be dean of the college.

[byu71]

I think she lost the crowd when she screamed, "THIS IS F***'N HATE!!!"

Given this is NYU, one of the liberal hell holes in the country, I am thinking she won't be fired for this little lecture of NYPD. Instead by the end of the week I expect she will be asked to be dean of the college.

I can't wait to hear how their idiot mayor spins this. Have you heard the list of items you can be arrested for and yet if an undocumented he doesn't feel Ice needs to know?

Drunk driving ain't no big deal. Neither is larceny. I think a lot of sexual assaults are also considered not bad enough and he is a lib. I would think he would at least throw the book at people who commit crimes against women???

[myboynoah]

I'm a professor, how dare you!

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"That's coming from a professor."

[Moliere]

Maybe it's not the students that are the snowflakes

[creekster]

I also love the guy who says "She's a professor" to egg her on and then she repeats the line a couple more times.

That was amusing; totally egging her on for his own entertainment.

[Topper]

I can't wait to hear how their idiot mayor spins this. Have you heard the list of items you can be arrested for and yet if an undocumented he doesn't feel Ice needs to know?

Drunk driving ain't no big deal. Neither is larceny. I think a lot of sexual assaults are also considered not bad enough and he is a lib. I would think he would at least throw the book at people who commit crimes against women???

The current state of political polemic is us vs. them, with rational arguments being exchanged depending who is in power. Neither side has the high road which makes it one big comedy shore, amateur hour that is.

[Walter Sobchak]

[Jeff Lebowski]

I'm a professor, how dare you!

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Holy crap! That is awesome.

Somewhere in Missouri, Professor Click is breathing a huge sigh of relief. "Phew! Finally, someone crazier than me."

[Jeff Lebowski]

http://hotair.com/archives/2017/02/0...campus-speech/

Nothing says “anti-fascism” like demanding that the state physically attack your political opponents.

[Uncle Ted]

It is tough being a student holding down a job and having to go protesting... Professors need to cut these students a break and not give any grades below a C:

“Like, the way the courses are set up. You know, we’re paying for a service. We’re paying for our attendance here. We need to be able to get what we need in a way that we can actually consume it.” He pauses. “Because I’m dealing with having been arrested on campus, or having to deal with the things that my family are going through because of larger systems—having to deal with all of that, I can’t produce the work that they want me to do. But I understand the material, and I can give it to you in different ways.
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“A lot of us worked alongside community members in Cleveland who were protesting. But we needed to organize on campus as well—it wasn’t sustainable to keep driving forty minutes away. A lot of us started suffering academically.” In 1970, Oberlin had modified its grading standards to accommodate activism around the Vietnam War and the Kent State shootings, and Bautista had hoped for something similar. More than thirteen hundred students signed a petition calling for the college to eliminate any grade lower than a C for the semester, but to no avail. “Students felt really unsupported in their endeavors to engage with the world outside Oberlin,” she told me.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...-arts-colleges

Protesting is hard work!

[wuapinmon]

It is tough being a student holding down a job and having to go protesting... Professors need to cut these students a break and not give any grades below a C:


http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...-arts-colleges

Protesting is hard work!

The larger issue, to me, is that they see their education as a product to consume, rather than a series of skills to master and content to learn and synthesize with the skillsets taught to them. The industrialization of education gives me hypertension.

[Sleeping in EQ]

The larger issue, to me, is that they see their education as a product to consume, rather than a series of skills to master and content to learn and synthesize with the skillsets taught to them. The industrialization of education gives me hypertension.

Agreed.

[Non Sequitur]

The larger issue, to me, is that they see their education as a product to consume, rather than a series of skills to master and content to learn and synthesize with the skillsets taught to them. The industrialization of education gives me hypertension.

When I was in college, I learned as much outside the classroom as I did inside.

[creekster]

When I was in college, I learned as much outside the classroom as I did inside.

But not because your class load was reduced so you could continue your non-class learning. In fact, how to manage your class load was probably a key thing you learned.

[SeattleUte]

This guy says that when he came out as gay liberals were incredibly loving and accepting and celebrating his individuality and supporting his rights. But when he came out as a conservative, liberals, including most of his friends, shunned him, tried to impose conversion therapy, made threats, questioned his morality and sanity, issued hate mail, etc.

http://nypost.com/2017/02/11/im-a-ga...-conservative/