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I’m Northwestern’s president. Here’s why safe spaces for students are important.
The Washington Post ^ | 15 Jan, 2015 | Morton Schapiro

Posted on 01/19/2016 8:06:39 PM PST by MtnClimber

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To: MtnClimber

So ya
Thought ya
Might like to
Go to the show?

To feel the thrill of confusion
That Space Cadet glow.


41 posted on 01/19/2016 9:53:01 PM PST by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: Snickering Hound
I don’t think I’ve ever read a Washington Post article where all the comments were against a liberal writer until now.

Yep, he's getting hammered, and very properly so. Apparently his answer to racial sensitivity is apartheid. I think the good Doctor owes South Africa an apology.

42 posted on 01/19/2016 10:01:30 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: MtnClimber

Interesting, the black student owns all the seats at the table near him. Jackass.


43 posted on 01/19/2016 10:06:30 PM PST by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: MtnClimber

This guy isn’t qualified to scrub toilets.


44 posted on 01/19/2016 10:07:57 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Talisker

I was commissioned through OCS, so went through BCT at Benning.

Ran into my old DI in RVN. He had made E-8 and was 1SG of an Engineer company.

He said “BCT was tough, so, if a kid was going to break, he would do it there, not in combat”.

This current system is such a disservice to the troops!

Live Long and Prosper


45 posted on 01/19/2016 10:17:11 PM PST by The All Knowing All Seeing Oz (I carry a handgun because even a small police officer is too big and heavy to carry.)
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To: MtnClimber

“For more than four decades, we have had a building on campus called the Black House, a space specifically meant to be a center for black student life. “

That’s not safe enough. There need to be special “black safe-space” colleges which devote their entire campus to safe-spaces for blacks.


46 posted on 01/19/2016 10:33:00 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: MtnClimber
Safe space: Asylum.

The lunatics are in full possession of the facility.

47 posted on 01/19/2016 10:36:58 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: DesertRhino
Reminds me of High School--over 40 years ago.

SSDD

48 posted on 01/19/2016 10:41:05 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: MtnClimber
50 something years ago, I was in college in Massachusetts. One fine spring break I squeezed my Christian ass into a VW beetle with 3 Jewish students and we drove to Florida.

I learned a lot about Jewish culture, they learned something about Christian culture, and we all had a blast. The concept of a "safe space" never entered anyone's mind.

We went back to school and stayed friends. We learned science, engineering, and how to get along together. If there had been "safe spaces" we would have learned how to exclude each other.

49 posted on 01/19/2016 11:38:55 PM PST by CurlyDave
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To: Talisker

I definitely don’t remember that when I was going through BCT at Benning in ‘06. Must be pretty new.


50 posted on 01/20/2016 1:47:01 AM PST by The Grammarian
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To: Lopeover

Looks like a caste system is inventing itself on the backs of #blacklivesmatter.


51 posted on 01/20/2016 2:36:16 AM PST by x_plus_one (Obama say, 'no worries, Islam is peace. But the weather is gonna getcha!')
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To: The All Knowing All Seeing Oz

“I wonder, when the students he is coddling apply for their first post-graduation job, will they ask, “Where is the Safe Space here at XYZ Industries?””

The student is more likely to hear, “Thanks for applying but we hired the fellow from Pakistan. He was prepared to work within our organization without needing a Safe Space.”


52 posted on 01/20/2016 4:15:04 AM PST by Portcall24
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To: MtnClimber

IOW - my job is to ensure more emotionally crippled, social misfits are produced - F*** education - with education, they aren’t so pliable to Left-Wing Despotism.


53 posted on 01/20/2016 5:00:56 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Talisker

The time out cards have been gone on for over a decade including BUDS (Navy SEAL training); a friend who did BUDS was disgusted at how wimpy the training is, and that was a decade ago.


54 posted on 01/20/2016 5:22:52 AM PST by LambSlave
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To: The Grammarian

Benning probably held out longer than most. The last time I was there (~two years ago) they were still letting folks use spitoons over in Bldg 4; the rest of the Army stopped this years ago.


55 posted on 01/20/2016 5:25:41 AM PST by LambSlave
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To: MtnClimber
"...The black students politely said no. Is this really so scandalous?..."

No, it is rude, and typical.

Courtesy is only required from white people.

56 posted on 01/20/2016 6:14:49 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: Lopeover
Now they are voluntarily segregating. I am dumbfounded

Why?

57 posted on 01/20/2016 6:19:04 AM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: MtnClimber

Black lives matter is NOTHING BUT PART OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY NETWORK....simply trying to destroy America....


58 posted on 01/20/2016 7:42:00 AM PST by zzwhale (acts of treason)
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To: Jim Noble

I thought they wanted equality. They do not.


59 posted on 01/20/2016 8:12:05 AM PST by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States)
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“A group of black students were having lunch together in a campus dining hall. There were a couple of empty seats, and two white students asked if they could join them. One of the black students asked why, in light of empty tables nearby. The reply was that these students wanted to stretch themselves by engaging in the kind of uncomfortable learning the college encourages. The black students politely said no. Is this really so scandalous?”

If whites had said it to blacks this liberal “president” would have screamed racism and bloody murder.

So, what I just heard this president liberal say is that it is OK to segregate lunch counters to whites only.


60 posted on 01/20/2016 8:13:58 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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