No Safe Space For Conservatives!

Accuracy in Academia ^ | June 11, 2015 | Malcolm A. Kline

[Academiadotorg]

We are truly in an age where who you know is more important than what you know. “The feminist scholars are academically weak but politically well-connected,” Christina Hoff Sommers, who maintains the Factual Feminist blog said on June 4, 2015 at a “summit” meeting arranged by the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF). “A bunch fled to the ‘safe rooms.’”

Sommers has seen their power up close and personal. “When I was at Oberlin, the first two rows were filled with women with red duct tape over their mouths,” Sommers, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) said at the IWF meeting. The IWF symposium was sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Sommers experienced similar treatment when she appeared at Georgetown, where her appearance was accompanied by “trigger warnings.” As well, applause is now considered a “trigger” and audience members are now encouraged to react to a speech by “waving their jazz hands.”

“In the old days, before this year, people would come to debate me,” Sommers said. She puts the trend down to a virtually universal reaction to a “dear colleague” letter that U. S. Department of Education appointee sent to university officials urging them to double down on fighting rape on campus.

Not mentioned in the missive, Sommers notes, are the possibility that rape suspects are innocent or any reference to civil liberties.

[Academiadotorg]

where exactly are the safe spaces for conservatives? Maybe they're in the Outback. Not the restaurant, the actual Outback.

[WayneS]

As well, applause is now considered a “trigger” and audience members are now encouraged to react to a speech by “waving their jazz hands.”

That discriminates against speakers who are blind... I mean, visually impaired...

[tacticalogic]

“A bunch fled to the ‘safe rooms.’”

Intellectual NORKs.

[gr8eman]

...and rock-n-rollers!

[Nifster]

I would like these little wusses to go to a real safe room....the kind Israelis go to during rocket attacks.

[Prospero]

I'm with Mark Steyn on "safe spaces." It's another word for tyranny, though, strictly speaking, 'tyranny' has a legal definition in the context of American history, one so specific it sanctioned enough Church-going colonists to use weapons and warfare to establish our nation's independence.

Conservatives appear unwilling to refuse their blood enemy's definition of terms used in a totally imaginary linguistic playbook the Left pretends to worship in this War for Minds.

The outrage here is Academia itself, institutions set up for the perpetuation of civilization by conservatives. And the natural deterioration of that social institution, from one dedicated to it's reason-for-being to one dedicated to self-continuity, makes it vulnerable. It is no longer sacred, having tossed every sacred thing into its book bonfire. It can be attacked and it can be defeated, at its supply lines, the legislatures, the Trustees, the Alumni; it is wide open. But it will not be defeated as long as we allow the spiritually bankrupt and parasitical groups running these places, with our blank checks, to choose the ground to fight upon, a crisis-driven and urgent field alternately labeled "race," or "sex" or "social justice."

With regard to these things, it's perhaps important to respect Sun Tzu's first and introductory rule of War, that war is about life or death, and therefore must be studied.

[boxlunch]

Bump for a well thought out commentary. Thanks for the post.