Posted on 04/20/2015 12:02:30 PM PDT by markomalley
Students at both Oberlin College in Ohio and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., have been crying out that they fear for their safety because conservative groups invited someone who disagrees with their views on sexual assault and rape culture to speak on campus.
Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at American Enterprise Institute and author of Who Stole Feminism?, spoke at Georgetown last Thursday and is scheduled to speak at Oberlin tonight.
As reported by Twitchy, Georgetown students placed a “trigger warning” sign outside of the speech, advising that it would “contain discussions of sexual assault and may deny the experiences of survivors.” A photo on Twitter shows a student holding another sign reading, “TRIGGER WARNING: anti-feminism” and advertising the location of a “safe space” for anyone who might feel traumatized by Sommers’s opposing views.
Why these students would go through all of this rather than just not attend is unclear — but it seems like Sommers’s experience with Oberlin students will be the same. In fact, the Oberlin students who wrote a piece for the school newspaper protesting the invitation preceded it with a trigger warning — apparently, they consider Sommers to be so dangerous that even talking about her talking could traumatize someone.
“Her talk is happening, so let’s pull together in the face of this violence and make our own space to support each other,” the students wrote in the piece, which was titled “In Response to Sommers’ Talk: A Love Letter to Ourselves” and had been signed by more than 150 students and campus groups as of noon on Friday.
“It is valid and necessary to both create alternative spaces for healing and to directly challenge the violence that is happening,” it continued.
The letter also announced an “alternate event,” titled “We’re Still Here Monday.”
And people try to convince me the hipsters are really a groundswell conseravtive movement?!?
Steaming pantload.
The students involved in this sick wimpery are unfit to live in a free society.
So do you still think feminism is about equality?
They know full well they’re in no danger. If someone was a true physical threat to them, they’d be quiet as mice. It’s just so much posing and vanity screeching.
You know, I think Hillary is going to be up in NH sometime this week. I wonder if I should stand outside the venue and hold up a trigger warning sign? What do you think will happen to me?
In case anyone’s confused,
this is now the tactic of the left - to claim physical threats over political differences.
See, it used to be they were “offended”, but that lost its power - now they are “threatened”.
It’s not so much a “society of wimps”,
it’s politically motivated operatives “stepping up” their definition of the opposition.
We are creating a culture of progressives who have no concept of reality, or how to deal with problems outside their severely limited perspective. This is the next generation of leaders, and the followers will be even worse. They are the intellectual Nazis of our time.
You are correct sir !!
It’s about rationalization.
Not the rationalization of Facts, but the rationalization of “feelings”.
These retards seem to consider their “Feelings” as fact and are hell bent on using any and every tool available to them.
It’s insane.
Leftist fascists admit to being inferior?
From your mouth to Allah’s ear, as the saying goes...
They probably would. Columbia Urine-versity- Obamas old school situated in the liberal spew hole of New York city, invited Ahmedijad every year to a dinner, then allowed him to spew his BS while they all applauded. “Oh our hero! Our hero!” I remember one time someone asked him about gays in Iran and he said “We don’t have that problem” Why? Because they hang gays and the audience all burst out laughing! Ha ha ha! So funny! He kills gays! And of course the media completely ignored that. Christians refusing to cater to gay weddings is a huge no no, but hanging someone for being gay is funny! ha ha!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD1PnbJwfSw
Yea, verily yea.
I’ve had it happen to me personally just last week.
That’s the plus side of an EMP attack.
These childish losers will die off.
We know what the college student’s view of rape is. Stand around with a beer in your hand and try not to look directly at the rape happening at your feet. Unless you’re taking a video of it with your I-phone.
“These little commies, who think they’re destined to rule, will be quite surprised when they find themselves ordered to stand by an open pit. “
The useful idiots will be the first to go. Their idiot professors second.
Oberlin = leftist hell hole.
“Dialogue” for these leftist snowflakes is “You disagree with me on one little thing, therefore I must hate you, I must destroy you, I must kill you!”
Yes, these snowflakes are indeed violent. They already key cars and slash tires if there is a bumper sticker they don’t like. RNC 2008 was another clear example. They will get worse, beyond shouting down different viewpoints. What are today’s fragile snowflakes will tomorrow make the Red Guards from China look sane. Look forward to your future struggle sessions, Comrade.
;Maybe they SHOULD be worried. I would like to slug one of then right now....
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