Posted on 05/20/2015 12:22:38 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Those accustomed to reading or listening only to liberal commentators may not be aware of trigger warnings and safe zones on college campuses.
It seems that mostly conservative sites and writers are concerned with the increasingly draconian suppression of free speech on college campuses. But then, it is mostly conservative writers and speakers who are treated as though theyre bringing the Ebola virus rather than contrarian ideas to the sensitive ears of what we may as well name the Swaddled Generation.
A trigger warning is usually conveyed on a sign carried or posted near the auditorium where a speech is to be given, alerting students to the possibility that the speaker may express an idea that could trigger an emotional response. A discussion about campus rape statistics, for example, might cause a rape victim to suffer.....
.....Purdue President Mitch Daniels laid out the stakes in a telephone interview: If universities want to embarrass themselves with their behavior, allowing people to be shouted down or disinvited, thats their problem. But if theyre spawning a bunch of little authoritarians with an inverted view of our basic freedoms, thats everybodys problem......
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
your family knows you and loves you....great presents...
And what about the hoplophobes? They'd be triggered by the word "trigger".
Leftism is so damn confusing......
Yes there is. It’s called “NFHale”!
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hale gonna git you, sucka !!
I have Kryponite for NFH; my gimp named Khent.
It’s like garlic to a vampire. Or in this case, illegal bath salts to NFH.
” illegal bath salts to NFH.”
At least he will be....uh....clean.
Trigger warnings, right. Anyone remember those pretentious Victorian ladies who would “faint” when they heard words like “pantaloon”? The old is new again.
When it comes to GOPster’s deviant alter ego... a pair of concrete shoes (matching his outfit, of course - we CAN’T be gauche now, can we), a nice, weighted length of anchor chain, and a long, deep, dark pool of water - say, oh I dunno, something like the Marianas Trench - comes immediately to mind...
And “it” can take those bath salts with it to the bottom... and see if those glowing eyeball fish like them...
:^)
RE Kryptonite:
I’m less the “Man of Steel” and more “The Man of Copper-Jacketd Lead Traveling at 3700 fps”...
And smelly.. like a cheap bottle of “Chanel No.7335.8” or some other ChiCom knock-off only used in arab brothels...
Two more 21st-century neologisms for the pile. The liberals, or rather Progs (~ Stalinists) are doing to daily speech exactly what Orwell warned they would.
ANY word ending in ...igger is dangerous to use these days!
There was a young fella named Kent;
who would tear off his clothes in a tent.
for no matter the time;
he was a terror to crime;
‘cause he flew every where that he went.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, ' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.' |
What poetry! Have you met Khent?
A critter named “Khent”, Who loved to get bent
could suck a golf ball through a garden hose...
Then it ran afoul, of an Ay-rab in a towel,
and got itself sucker-punched in the nose.
That SOB! It told me it was in Fiji!
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