Trigger warnings, safe spaces, and fascism on college campuses

[chrisrenrut]

Well shit. What's the solution?

Rapid blinking. Even quadriplegics can participate.

[Moliere]

Rapid blinking. Even quadriplegics can participate.

But only with one eye so you don't exclude pirates.


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[Joe Public]

You're being very insensitive to our war veterans who may have lost the use of one or both hands.

And the blind students. Very insensitive indeed.

[Omaha 680]

Can't wait for jazz hand only celebrations at sporting events!


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education...-nation-union/

Does anyone read the Onion anymore? There is really no need.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Harvard installs teeter totters on campus.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I feel sorry for The Onion. Satire is dead. But they had a good run.

[Topper]

Americans allowed to keep current medical conditions if Obamacare is repealed.

http://www.theonion.com/article/gop-promises-americans-will-be-able-keep-current-m-54995

[Moliere]

Harvard installs teeter totters on campus.

I love that they have instructions.


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[creekster]

I love that they have instructions.


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lol. me too. Instructions and warnings for Harvard kids. Nice.

[Walter Sobchak]

conservatives are wrong about everything, except predicting their own place in the culture

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And while I think conservative students can mostly get by fine on the average campus, I really can’t imagine going through life as a conservative professor, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. Is that a problem? That depends on your point of view. But if it’s happening, shouldn’t we talk about the fact that it’s happening?

Ann Coulter, I’m told, not only should be barred from campus, it is so stunningly obvious that she should be barred that no one feels compelled to tell me what the rules are about who should be banned and who shouldn’t be. “Ann Coulter is not here to actually exchange ideas!” But then some would say the same about Michael Moore, and the idea that he would be disinvited from campus is unthinkable. They say Ann Coulter is a fringe figure. But surely Condoleeza Rice, as odious as she is, is the definition of a mainstream figure, and she faced her own disinvitation campaign. What are the rules? Who can say what on campus? I have no idea, and when I ask, people act as though it’s offensive that I’ve asked — I am supposed to intuit the rules, and a failure to do so shows that I too am offensive.

When I say “there are some legitimate free speech concerns on campus,” people immediately say “you’re saying professors should be able to shout racial slurs at students in class?!?,” leaping immediately to such absurd hypotheticals that there’s no ability to discuss the actual tough cases. (Another thing we’re antagonistic towards these days: the idea of hard political questions.) The very idea that there should be conservative representation in the New York Times op/ed space has been roundly mocked. The idea that we need any intellectual diversity at all invites immediate incredulous statements like, “you’re saying we should debate eugenics?!?,” as though the only positions that exist are the obviously correct and the obviously horrible. The idea that you’re supposed to read the publications of the antagonistic viewpoint has been dismissed as a relic. People call for conservative books to be pulled from library shelves; they insist that the plays of conservative David Mamet have no place in the contemporary theater; they call for the resignation of some video game exec dude because he donates to Donald Trump. These are all the sorts of things that for years we said we weren’t doing, and now we’re doing them.

Conservatives have been arguing for years that liberals essentially want to write them out of shared cultural and intellectual spaces altogether. I’ve always said that’s horseshit. But I’m trying to be real with you and take an honest look at what’s happening in the few spaces that progressive people control. In the halls of actual power, meanwhile, conservatives have achieved incredible electoral victories, running up the score against the progressives who in turn take out their frustrations in cultural and intellectual spaces. This is not a dynamic that will end well for us.

Of course by affirming this version of events from conservatives, I am opening myself to the regular claim that I am a conservative. Which is incorrect; I have never been further left in my life than I am today. But you can understand it if you understand the contemporary progressive tendency to treat politics as a matter of which social or cultural group you associate with rather than as a set of shared principles and a commitment to enacting them by appealing to the enlightened best interest of the unconverted. That dynamic may, I’m afraid, also explain why progressives risk taking even firmer control of campus and media and Hollywood and losing everything else.

[myboynoah]

A racist note sparked protests at a Minnesota college. The school now says the message was fake.

In an email sent to the campus community Wednesday, St. Olaf College President David R. Anderson revealed that investigators “confronted a person of interest” and confirmed that the threatening note was “not a genuine threat.”

“We’re confident that there is no ongoing threat from this incident to individuals or the community as a whole,” the message said.

. . . . . . . . .

Samantha Wells, the student who allegedly found the note, appeared to reference the president’s email on Twitter Wednesday, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune. In several tweets, the paper reported, Wells referenced being linked to the university’s investigation, but did not explicitly claim responsibility for fabricating the note.

“So, it looks like something made its way back to me in the investigation,” she tweeted. “I will be saying it was a hoax. I don’t care. There is nothing more that I can do.”

Police told the Star Tribune that Wells declined to file a criminal case, leading authorities to drop their investigation. Police told the paper that Wells informed them she’d prefer not to be involved in an investigation as she neared graduation before leaving for Europe.

Attempts to reach Wells via email were not immediately successful.

[Uncle Ted]

High school takes back yearbooks with 'Build that wall,' other inappropriate quotes


All of the yearbooks that had been distributed at the Richmond Early College High School near Rockingham have been taken back by the school after some senior quotes were deemed controversial, the school system says.


Graduating students at the 10-year-old school, which has 259 students, were allowed to share a quote under their picture in the yearbook. After the book was published, officials in the school and district administration found several of the quotes inappropriate, including one credited to President Trump, said district spokeswoman Ashley-Michelle Thublin.


The Trump quote, which said “Build that wall,” has been slammed on social media by some students and others who called it racist and hurtful to classmates, some of whom are minorities. After RECHS announced on its Facebook page that it had discovered the errors and the inappropriate comments, many people voiced their opinions both for and against the decision to cancel the book.
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Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/new...#storylink=cpy

[myboynoah]

Yale dean once championed cultural sensitivity. Then she called people ‘white trash’ on Yelp.

You go Dean Chu. Telling it like it is.

[Omaha 680]

Nothing earth-shattering here, but I enjoyed this brief piece by Fareed Zakaria. I never thought I would say those words in that order.

[falafel]

That was good, thanks for posting.