(you've been warned)
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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.”
Out of an enrollement of approximately 17,500. That makes less than one percent! You go, [insert intimidated gender here]!
God how I wish more people knew about The Cultural Revolution, and the behavior of the KOMSOMOL. I know better than to look to American public education for it though.
150 strong, LOL!
No wonder these useless millenials cannot find jobs even with a degree.
..... This will all have to be undone if we wish to truly return America back to her glory!
... Hearts and Minds.
“Where do these “students” have time to attend speeches and protests. I used to walk by these numbskulls and wonder that when I was attending.”
I’m guessing you weren’t majoring in Black Women’s Holistic Studies or The Art of Sex In Modern Poetry like these folks are. I’m betting there was a lot of math or science in your classes.
Computer Science (required up through Calc 2 and Statistics). Minor in American English (lots of reading and writing).
I studied women from the computer lab and walking to my truck to go to work.
Free speech, huh?
The Communist dialectic is all for something...until it’s against it.
(you've been warned)
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Student loans! Why pay now when you can just defer it until later, and then default, or have the government wipe the slate clean!
“Computer Science”
There you go...
People like these students wouldn’t KNOW when to be in fear! Somebody has to tell them when.
Why wasn’t there a trigger warning in the title for this post?
She wrote her books 15 and 20 years ago, and STILL these people are too stupid to figure out that promoting women over men in all of society hurts men???? She was right then.
They consider her a threat and violent, because she doesn’t believe women are better than men or that women need tons of pity and help???? Feminists can’t have it both ways. Either women are fierce and strong, or they are beaten down weaklings who need our pity and dollars.
If I were in HR, anyone participating in or supporting this idiocy would be automatically disqualified from employment. The proper response to their claims to feel threatened by the mere suggestion that differing views on various subjects exist is, “You know, unreasoning fear of anything unusual is called xenophobia, and is a treatable psychological disorder. Perhaps you should get some medical help.”
I picture a scene on many college campi of students walking around with their fingers in their ears so as not to hear anything that might pierce their “safe space” i.e. liberal bubble.
DO NOT HIRE list
My list started with a few schools with a history supporting radical left views, student or teacher.
As time has passed the list has grown to an ungovernable length.
I have now decided to trash the list and just assume that hiring anyone schooled in the United States will be an employment risk.
“Her talk is happening, so let’s pull together in the face of this violence...”
Got that? Speech = “violence” to these leftist goons.
They don’t want us to be able to defend our selves from REAL violence, but they want to be able to use force against use for IMAGINARY violence.
There is a short list of good schools.
The word “trigger” has violent associations with evil firearms and western imperialism. I think we need a warning about the word “trigger” being used in a warning.
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