Right. Because Life is just like that — one big Safe Space.
I mean, I was stupid in college. I was voting Demorat.
But for fuck’s sake, I wasn’t that stupid.
I was taking a full college load and working for four radio stations, was Photo Editor for the college newspaper, woke up at 5 AM and went to bed at 10 or 11 PM. I paid my tuition, had to buy my own used car in order to get to work.
At my peak I had six jobs, four at radio stations, one at a newspaper, one at the college. Plus my classes. I never had a moment to consider protests or safe spaces or microaggressions. I was too busy worrying about how I would pay for my textbooks.
So I bought used textbooks and then learned: they were already highlighted with the salient points. They wouldn’t be salient points if they weren’t highlighted, right?
And that’s how I passed college. Only a portion of my weekends were free.
From HeatSt.com:
Student Snowflakes: ALL Universities Should Be Safe Spaces
by Kieran Corcoran
University students are crying out to be swaddled in the cotton wool of trigger warnings and safe spaces, a worrying new survey has found.
The sky-high levels of support for thought-policing emerged from a survey of just over 1,000 students in the UK.
How sad is that?
Its findings are also likely to be broadly applicable in the US, where safe space culture originated.
48% of all students surveyed agreed that all universities should have safe space policies to police debate, with only 20% opposing the idea. Women favored safe spaces by a considerable margin.
Women. Imagine that. The most emotive and most coddled sex extant — except for trannies, cross-dressers and the rest of the 31 flavors.
The survey, conducted by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) also showed that students are terrified of being triggered, with 68% backing their use.
Such policies are already having absurd results. A student in Edinburgh was almost ejected from a debate for raising her hand in violation of the safe space policy.
And trigger warning culture has permeated as far as Oxford University law lectures – which students have the option to skip if they find the crimes up for discussion “distressing”.
The crimes discussed in a text book are “distressing.” Such petunias, you are.
Confusingly, the survey found most students pay lip service to free speech – with 60% agreeing universities “should never” limit it.
But in practice many of them turned on a dime to support censorious policies in practice.
NEVER trust Millennials when it comes to their support for our foundational documents. I am convinced they 1) are not even remotely familiar with the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and 2) frighteningly willing to shed those rights with which they are unfamiliar.
The rights that so many Americans have died for.
NEVER. TRUST. MILLENNIALS.
They are “educated.”
But they have not learned.
BZ
P.S.
You want to read a great article about so-called “safe spaces”? Click on this to read Camille Paglia’s article. You might think that Paglia is a right winger. Uh, no. Full transcript is here.
The longer Bernie Sanders stays in this race, the more that Millennials will determine not to vote for Hillary Clinton. They will even consider voting for Donald Trump, just to make a statement.
And that is what you face if you, as Republicans or Conservatives, decide to stay home in November because #NeverTrump.
Let me give you some statistics from my adjunct work in Sex Assaults when I was a detective for a major California law enforcement agency: roughly 40% to 50% of rape claims by women were false, at my time in the 90s. When investigated fully, the bulk of these women had, in fact, post-coaital regrets. Force and/or rape — non-consensual sex — was not factually or evidentiarily involved.