Millennial snowflakes: ALL colleges should be “safe spaces”

Millennial SnowflakesRight.  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.

Fragile youths also said they love no-platform policies, newspaper bans and knocking down statues to shelter them from controversial or unpleasant ideas.

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.

SPOC: a “Shady Person Of Color” speaks out against “safe spaces” on college campus

SPOC 2That can get you potentially expelled from college, if you are a student.  It can wreak havoc on your social media accounts and attract Leftist Maggots like flies on shite.

It can certainly get you body slammed by your fellow college peers because you don’t pull the line that all the mooing brainless student cows believe their wilting-flower sensitivities trump surrounding reality.

Hanna Oh is now a SPOC — a “Shady Person Of Color” according to Claremont McKenna College’s school newspaper — for suggesting as editor of that paper in November of 2015 that “safe spaces” have no place on college campuses.

She partially wrote (see the complete article):

To our fellow Claremont students, we are disappointed in you as well.

We are disappointed in the fact that your movement has successfully managed to convince its members that anyone who dissents does so not for intelligent reasons, but due to moral failure or maliciousness.

We are disappointed that you’ve used phrases like “silence is violence” to not only demonize those who oppose you, but all who are not actively supporting you.

We are most disappointed, however, in the rhetoric surrounding “safe spaces.”

College is the last place that should be a safe space. We come here to learn about views that differ from our own, and if we aren’t made to feel uncomfortable by these ideas, then perhaps we aren’t venturing far enough outside of our comfort zone.

We would be doing ourselves a disservice to ignore viewpoints solely on the grounds that they may make us uncomfortable, and we would not be preparing ourselves to cope well with adversity in the future.

Dealing with ideas that make us uncomfortable is an important part of growing as students and as people, and your ideas will inhibit opportunities for that growth.

The problem is that Oh has dared to expose the truth about college’s little dainty darlings across the nation.

But when you control college campus ranguage as Leftists do, you can write anything you want about someone “of color” if they don’t pull their own “color weight.”

Like Hannah Oh.  Who betrayed her college values by spilling the Leftist beans that not only did students demand a “safe space” on campus — but via a private Google document — wanted a sound system, kitchenware, and a “board of SPOCs” that they wished to post on the wall in their “safe space.”  Not a board as in a council, but a board that would reveal those persons they believed were no longer worthy of their swarthiness.

Claremont then reacted as predicted by firing people and creating a temporary “safe space” whilst working on a permanent one.  Was there an administrative reaction to the concept of “SPOC” on their campus? — which is a demeaning term to persons of color — no.  There was no reaction by the Claremont administration.  As you would expect.

But as Oh revealed, here’s the practical kicker: no Caucasoids allowed.  They can’t enter the so-called “safe space.”  In the real world this is termed segregation.  Even Obama spoke out against “safe spaces.”

Oh revealed this — the treachery of it all! — when she again went against the Leftist grain and had the temerity to expose the situation on Fox News with Greta Van Susteren this very week.  The nerve of that SPOC!

As she and the editors dared to summarize in a published editorial:

Lastly, we are disappointed in students like ourselves, who were scared into silence.

We are not racist for having different opinions.

We are not immoral because we don’t buy the flawed rhetoric of a spiteful movement.

We are not evil because we don’t want this movement to tear across our campuses completely unchecked.

We are no longer afraid to be voices of dissent.

That is what scares Leftists.  That there would be any pushback at all That people would not automatically accept as rote what Leftists demand.  This cannot be.

Is pushback actually beginning?

BZ