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Harvard Student’s Op-Ed: Our School’s ‘Safe Space’ Isn’t Safe Enough
NRO ^ | April 2, 2015 | Katherine Timpf

Posted on 04/08/2015 12:06:50 PM PDT by QT3.14

Sorry, but a totally “safe space” is actually impossible. A student at Harvard University published an op-ed on Wednesday complaining that her school’s “safe spaces” are just not safe enough. According to Madison E. Johnson, her time spent in the “safe space” was really great at first — there were “massage circles,” “deep conversations,” and “times explicitly delineated for processing and journaling.” But then it all changed.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: education; harvard; madisonjohnson; pc
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These precious snowflakes are stunning.

PJ Media said, "A nation of wusses....raise children never to risk any psychic or physical damage. They are bubble wrapped, physically and mentally."


1 posted on 04/08/2015 12:06:50 PM PDT by QT3.14
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To: QT3.14

So, after reading the article, it seems that the blame belongs with fellow Liberals, who have not been checking their various privileges and dropping some N-bombs, but mostly not checking privileges. And dropping N-bombs.


2 posted on 04/08/2015 12:11:57 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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To: QT3.14
What if my idea of a save space is somewhere where I can target practice with a 9mm without having the FR bullies come by and point out its total lack of stopping power?

Blam, blam, blam.

Hey Karl, you have a (#$%(#gun that wouldn't stop a bunny. You need to go full .45.

[ Liberal snowflake running crying from the safe space ]

3 posted on 04/08/2015 12:15:32 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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To: QT3.14

Psssssst...hey Madison, we don’t care.


4 posted on 04/08/2015 12:20:54 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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“I’m realizing ’safe space’ might mean different things for different people,” she wrote.

You think, child?

5 posted on 04/08/2015 12:21:22 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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“I’m realizing ’safe space’ might mean different things for different people,” she wrote.

Good for her. The first step in ridding herself of her narcissism is to first recognize that she is a narcissist.

6 posted on 04/08/2015 12:25:16 PM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: QT3.14

http://www.thecrimson.com/column/the-happiness-here/article/2015/4/1/supposed-security-safe-space/


7 posted on 04/08/2015 12:27:20 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: QT3.14

It’s all a stupid waste of time. Whoever plays around with this is on the loser track. Don’t pay any attention to this stuff.


8 posted on 04/08/2015 12:28:27 PM PDT by olepap (Your old Pappy)
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To: QT3.14
I don't think I'm using the same version of the English language as this person.

... “massage circles,” “deep conversations,” and “times explicitly delineated for processing and journaling.”

...somewhere they can be themselves without being judged...

...try really hard not to say anything obviously prejudiced.

...a safe space is one in which I feel that I can express all aspects of my identity without feeling that any one of those aspects will get me (including, but not limited to) judged, fired, marginalized, attacked, or killed,”

What does ANY of that crap have to do with being SAFE?

9 posted on 04/08/2015 12:31:16 PM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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ya... I threw up a little in my mouth just reading the first paragraph...


10 posted on 04/08/2015 12:40:56 PM PDT by gibsosa
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To: QT3.14
It is beginning to appear that the ivy league is partial to enrolling emotional cripples.
11 posted on 04/08/2015 12:41:22 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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Safe spaces, where one can express themselves without fear of judgement or Retribution. Let us see how safe they are if I start a discussion about global warming armed with almost 2 decades of science and graphs and charts, and other information. I will guarantee at first I will suffer unprecedented verbal abuse, and if I ignored it and continued to calmly show charts, I would begin to suffer physical abuse, then the coup de gras would occur when the police would then be called on me, and I would be off to face trial for spreading hate


12 posted on 04/08/2015 12:42:48 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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Yeah. I mean, the pResident DID go to Harvard (or so we’re told).


13 posted on 04/08/2015 12:43:02 PM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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practice with a 9mm without having the FR bullies come by and point out its total lack of stopping power?

You use a 9mm and admit it in public. Are you going to come out as gay too?

To be fair though, it's okay to practice with a 9mm, since the ammo isn't worth having anyways.

Back when my kids were very little, I let them practice with a 9mm since they could handle the kick with one hand and hold a pacifier with the other.

How'd I do on 9mm bullying?

14 posted on 04/08/2015 12:56:57 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: KarlInOhio

I can easily understand that someone shooting that girly 9mm would need a “safe” place to hide ;)
—Smith and Wesson .500 Magnum


15 posted on 04/08/2015 12:57:27 PM PDT by FBRhawk (Pray with faith, act with courage, never surrender!)
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To: QT3.14

Madison needs to be dropped off in the ‘hood. See if she can find a “safe place” there.


16 posted on 04/08/2015 12:58:42 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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First, one of her fellow safe-spacers asked her if she was “a full black

Ah, there in lies part of the problem.

That, and the column was published on April Fool's Day.

I read the (22 Crimson) comments. Maybe two support that writer, the rest come down hard or mention the date.

IMHO, the racist radical black lesbian special snowflake should crawl back into her mother's womb.

17 posted on 04/08/2015 1:03:23 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: QT3.14

This girl needs to be in McClean Hospital, not Harvard.


18 posted on 04/08/2015 1:08:11 PM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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her time spent in the “safe space” was really great at first — there were “massage circles,” “deep conversations,” and “times explicitly delineated for processing and journaling.” But then it all changed.

HUH?


19 posted on 04/08/2015 1:18:10 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: QT3.14
THIS is the ONLY REAL "Safe Space" on planet Earth:


20 posted on 04/08/2015 1:20:17 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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