More From Our Brave College Students...

[seer]

Come on, even our liberal friends on this site must find this lack of courage and disconnect from reality disturbing...

The president of Emory University has spoken to demonstrators who said they were frightened after someone wrote 'Trump 2016' in chalk around campus.

Students at the Atlanta school, which has an enrollment of more than 14,000 claim their 'safe space' was violated when the messages appeared on sidewalks and buildings.

Jim Wagner, president of the Atlanta university, wrote Tuesday that the students viewed the messages as intimidation, and they voiced 'genuine concern and pain' as a result.

He acted after student government wrote to him and slammed the university's response, prompting a meeting that led to protests.

Now administrators want to track down those responsible for the controversial markings.

But some commentators on the university's student newspaper website told the students to grow up and accused them of being babies.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...alk-signs.html

[lilpixieofterror]

Wonder how they'd handle it if something bad actually happened to them.

[claymore]

Come on, even our liberal friends on this site must find this lack of courage and disconnect from reality disturbing...




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...alk-signs.html

A part of me is dying from laughter over the students stupidity. A bigger part is is filled with overwhelming sadness over my generations cowardliness.

Honestly how are these students supposed to fight real oppression or "be the change" if seeing the word "Trump" causes them to feel unsafe.

[seer]

A part of me is dying from laughter over the students stupidity. A bigger part is is filled with overwhelming sadness over my generations cowardliness.

Honestly how are these students supposed to fight real oppression or "be the change" if seeing the word "Trump" causes them to feel unsafe.

I mean where did this "safe space" stuff come from? What do they hope to accomplish? How does this prepare students for the rigors of the real world?

[Bill the Cat]

It's even more pathetic that the administration didn't look at them and burst out laughing...

[Bill the Cat]

Booga booga...

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[Leonhard]

I mean where did this "safe space" stuff come from? What do they hope to accomplish? How does this prepare students for the rigors of the real world?

There is nothing new at all about safe spaces, at least not properly understood. Whenever you have a group of people who are marginalized and put at a disadvantage, they have always sought places where they can be safe from reactive criticism. Christians have done this as well in fellowship meetings, which in certain countries take on all aspects of a safe space vis-a-vis criticism of Christianity. It becomes a breathing hole.

In various places, and also in groups on campuses, certain groups have declared themselves safe spaces for various ventures that they support. For example if you're suffering from a disadvantage. In other circumstances, some people who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder have asked to be told if certain subjects will feature things that trigger this. For example someone who has suffered from a rape attack, and has developed ptsd, could be told that a certain course features books that describe in intimate details those events. Sometimes certain campuses will put down policies regarding dress code, and at at least in one instance black-facing by caucasian students was discussed as inappropriate.

Usually there is nothing extreme or unwanted about these safe space policies. They're usually common sense, and I fully support the majority of them. They're not about making a politically correct hell, they're basically just about protecting some groups from unnescessary harm. They're not about stopping criticism, or shutting down dialogue.

At least they shouldn't be. In some cases they have been. A prolife debate was shut down. Mostly though these problems seem to come about because campuses are afraid of having protests running on them. If you have such a debate, more than likely there's going to be a group of feminists holding banners and shouting, along with another group of evangelical Christians.

As for preparing people for the rigors of the world. Safe spaces doesn't prevent that. As I said they'll always exist. There have always been groups of women gathering together to discuss issuess among themselves, as well as a small group of conservative students who have a social where they don't expect liberal trolls to show up.

I certainly have my safe space to be in.

I support safe space policies on campuses. But I do believe its an ongoing discussion. We're probably seeing a bit of a pendulum effect where people are going from toxic and bad stuff being allowed on campuses, to the other extreme where a lot of people who aren't really under threat, or don't suffer from ptsd, or aren't really marginalized, are misappropriating these policies for their own benefit.

So I can't say I support proposed safe space policies. Writing Trump 2016 shouldn't be covered by that, unless there is already a policy in the school about writing stuff like that in general. I think Trump is an incompetent gas bag and a serial liar, who isn't going to give the conservatives even a picket fence on the border, or lift as much as a little finger regarding prolife issues, and if elected would probably set back conservatives in the US for a generation to come. Yet still, I think people who want to support him to have that freedom, and there aren't anyone with a reasonable claim to protection against stuff like that.

But rape victims? What's wrong with a professor writing that certain books, in a certain course say on feminist literature will feature graphic descriptions of rape? Sometimes merely issuing the warning is enough for most students, because then they can mentally prepare themselves.

Black students? There's a lot of racism going on, and I think they have a claim to a certain decorum that tries to clamp down on some of that. I don't think there's anything about 'preparing for the real world' about a drunk white priviledged frat boy running around dressed as a racial stereotype just because he can.

So yes, I support safe spaces, but its a complex issue you can't give a one line argument for.

[Roy]

Come on, even our liberal friends on this site must find this lack of courage and disconnect from reality disturbing...

The Daily Mail is frequently disconnected from reality. I'd want some other source before accepting this actually happened.

[Bill the Cat]

The Daily Mail is frequently disconnected from reality. I'd want some other source before accepting this actually happened.

How about their school newspaper?

http://emorywheel.com/emory-students...ump-chalkings/

[rogue06]

The Daily Mail is frequently disconnected from reality. I'd want some other source before accepting this actually happened.

Will the Washington Post do?

Source: Someone wrote �Trump 2016� on Emory�s campus in chalk. Some students said they no longer feel safe

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Chalk messages in support of Donald Trump at Emory University.Source

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At least one of the local TV stations was very supportive of the frightened little lambs reporting that some of the students feared for their lives and that they felt "attacked" by Trump's name. The school said that they will be going through security footage in order to identify these, um... "attackers." Some of the traumatized students reported that they immediately started removing the offensive signs and started passing anti-Trump literature to other students on the campus (no irony there).

I'm definitely not a Trump supporter but it has been hysterical reactions like this and officials indulging them that is responsible for a lot of folks turning to Trump in hopes of putting a stop to it.

[Roy]

Will the Washington Post do?

Yup. I've found their less unreliable.

That's a weird story. I can't see anything intimidating in writing "Trump 2016" and I can't see how it could possibly be classed as threatening.

[Jedidiah]

Yup. I've found their less unreliable.

That's a weird story. I can't see anything intimidating in writing "Trump 2016" and I can't see how it could possibly be classed as threatening.

You are obviously not familiar with the "Cry Baby Generation."

[seanD]

Come on, even our liberal friends on this site must find this lack of courage and disconnect from reality disturbing...




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...alk-signs.html

Didn't see this after I posted it in your other thread. Why do you keep creating so many threads about the same topic?

[Bill the Cat]

This reminds me of the movie PCU...

[Zymologist]

To be fair, Trump's hair is pretty traumatizing.