College Students Are Ridiculously Infuriating Safe-Space/Mega-thread

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Maybe you're right, hopefully you are.

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The point is (and this is coming from someone who generally does speak in favour of Mr or Mrs Unpleasant coming to soeak if a society wants them is, on the rare chance I bother with student politics) is that it doesn't matter. People as a whole have never been in favour of "free speech" in the absolute form - although people as a whole probably think they are . Talking about it as if it's some crazy new anti-free speech trend perpetuated by dem PC JOOS is laughable paranoia.

Maybe, so what's the harm in us making fun of it?  I mock attacks on free speech wherever they come from.  From social conservatives in American like Al Gore wanting to censor my Anthrax or social conservatives in the Middle East that want to censor me from drawing pictures of their silly prophet.  Or whiny children that don't want anybody to hear an opinion different from theirs.  They're all wrong, they all deserve to be made fun of and everybody that favors free speech should rub whatever stupid thing they fear in their face every chance they get until these people grow up.  Al Gore is just as big of a baby as some idiot beardo in Damascus who is just as big of a baby as the hipster trying to fit in at college by joining BDS.

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Was that meant for this thread?

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Meanwhile at the University of Arizona...

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The point is (and this is coming from someone who generally does speak in favour of Mr or Mrs Unpleasant coming to soeak if a society wants them is, on the rare chance I bother with student politics) is that it doesn't matter. People as a whole have never been in favour of "free speech" in the absolute form - although people as a whole probably think they are . Talking about it as if it's some crazy new anti-free speech trend perpetuated by dem PC JOOS is laughable paranoia.

Maybe, so what's the harm in us making fun of it?  I mock attacks on free speech wherever they come from.  From social conservatives in American like Al Gore wanting to censor my Anthrax or social conservatives in the Middle East that want to censor me from drawing pictures of their silly prophet.  Or whiny children that don't want anybody to hear an opinion different from theirs.  They're all wrong, they all deserve to be made fun of and everybody that favors free speech should rub whatever stupid thing they fear in their face every chance they get until these people grow up.  Al Gore is just as big of a baby as some idiot beardo in Damascus who is just as big of a baby as the hipster trying to fit in at college by joining BDS.

Not that I'm denying your bravery or anything, but lol. Of course, seeing as most anti-BDS campaigning comes in the forms of governments and authorities pressuring organisations and businesses to disavow themselves from BDS (or really any anti-Israeli activism actually), I assume you would condemn this horrid statism enroaching on the free rights of businesses and campuses?

Interesting that you'd pick BDS out of all that.  I really though Al Gore was the most trolly part.  Also interesting that you seem to be defending the horrible and racist organization that has killed a lot Palestinians jobs.  But I'll play your oddly obsessed with BDS game.

No, I don't like it.  I don't like it when the same people force anti-Semetic billboards down or fight the Klan from marching in Skokie.  I think people should have the right be racist assholes if they want to be, and the rest of us should be free to call them out on it and point and laugh.  I don't look at it as a downside to free speech like a lot of people either, it's got a strong upside.  Makes it much easier to tell who the assholes are.  Like a wearing a polo or driving a PT Cruiser.

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Hans and Sophie Scholl would be hated on here.

wow....just....wow....stay classy!

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You're trying to compare two people that died trying to take down the Nazis from the inside versus people trying to take down a statue of a dude whose last name happens to by Lynch.

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I'm pretty sure I didn't bring them up.

And again, I'm not "infuriated".  I'm pointing and laughing and occasionally highlighting an innocent that got hosed by the little authoritarians and the administrators that cave to them.


If anybody is infuriated it's the people complaining that we're making of the precious little snow flakes.

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Let's simplify this.

A campus is a home. That's what it is, ultimately for students who live there. Every home up and down the country has 'house rules'. Sometimes you're asked to not to swear, sometimes you're asked not to bring up certain issues.

Sometimes they ask to change the name of the stupid place they voluntarily enrolled in.  Sometimes they try and take down statues of dudes with the last name of Lynch.

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Like the "you people are infuriated" complaint, I'm not understanding why you think we think this is new?  College aged people have always been and will always be whiney little bitches that think they are more important than they are.  It's biological due to evolution.

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I love how people that claim this isn't a big deal keep posting in the thread.

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High School Removes Swastikas From Production Of ‘The Producers

idiots

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These are the people running the schools.  Someone that can't imagine a context where a Swastika would be appropriate in a high school.  Freaking morons!  <shakes head>

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Honestly they really should consider not putting on The Producers if that's their attitude. Or The Sound of Music.

Or learning about WWII.

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ASUCD Executive Office issues apology following accusations of cultural appropriation and fat shaming

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“To be honest, I was shocked. February 19 was Remembrance Day for Japanese internment during WWII, and some of my Japanese friends were heavily traumatized by seeing their culture mocked in such a clearly racist fashion,” Jones said in a Facebook comment on the Block Party’s event page. “Not to mention, as a Heavy-American, I don’t appreciate the blatant Fat-Shaming involved with caricaturing one of the few sports traditionally enjoyed by Heavy individuals. I honestly feel reparations payments are in order to affected individuals, and that those responsible for the grossly negligent oversight should immediately resign from their ASUCD posts.”

So yeah, that last guy was a troll.  Nobody actually said "as a Heavy-American".  I know a lot of you had to fight back giggles when you read that and then felt super guilty about it.  Do perpetual victims have a "hail mary" type thing they say when they sin against multiculturalism?  Well you didn't need to say it after giggling.

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African-American trans woman and LGBTQ activist speaker cancels lecture at Brown because it's more important to hate Jews than it is to support a black trans woman.

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I've been to events at Hillel houses. Hillel houses are nice places. I have a more positive opinion of Hillel houses than I have of Janet Mock.

The unsettling thing about this is that they were targeting a Jewish campus group rather than an explicitly Israeli one. The idea that Jewish groups deserve condemnation by mere association certainly undermines any claims the protectors may make about their lack of antisemitism.

the left knows many of it's own are racists, they just hate to talk about it.  Many of them will deny it out loud (and a couple of the more ignorant ones will actually mean it).

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Chalk drawings reading "Trump 2016" are intimidating

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Interesting video.

HA! at the end "why are you filming this?"
"for everyone's safety"
<smack>


It's always extra funny when the person KNOWS they are wrong.

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Scripps says they want be made fun of too, somebody wrote Trump'16 on a whiteboard.

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I've always agreed with the left that racism isn't dead in this country, but if this is what counts as "racism" these days, then maybe it is over.

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U of Michigan's turn to be offended by chalk.  Also they need someone else to call besides the police for "emergencies" like this.

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I'm shocked they didn't ask for nap time and a juice box.  There is no way Emory is going to give into to any of these stupid demands (which seem to be mostly money and toys for the "leaders"...odd that).

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and as a personal touch, I hung a lot of sheetrock in what turned out to be the Emory Police Station back in '94.  I knew there were cells in the basement but I thought it was otherwise a normal office building.  But it's just labeled as "Emory Police Department" in Google Maps now.

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ok, this has to be a joke

you make the call

it's very hard to tell anymore....and that says it all really.

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I think this is a video of what you tried to post. It's from 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWqMYqFI2tg

wow, a white person in college telling an old black cop he doesn't understand racism in America and then a bunch of other angry idiots pilling on the poor guy.

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Even if it was a Klan member, what is one guy going to do?