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.”
“They are the intellectual Nazis of our time.”
Actually, loathsome as they were, I wouldn’t insult Nazis with that comparison. At least the Nazis came out and stated their goals in pretty plain language for all to see, even if the rest of the West didn’t want to believe them. These progressives are too cowardly for that.
That's why colleges now have to have "safe places" for the widdle babies. To think they are our future.
Sadly, they are too immature to realize that over using words like that desensitized society in general, making real violence against women get lost in the noise.
You raise a valid point about these delicate creatures. In any form of executive or professional employment an individual will have to confront the sincerely held beliefs of others and try to persuade them to go along with his or her views. After thirty some odd years of practicing law, I say such confrontations are inevitable, especially within one’s own organization or group when trying to decide how to deal whit a new challenge or problem. When a college allows and encourages students to infantilize themselves that way it denies them a vital part of the educations they are there for, since they need to learn to confront and deal with others on a voluntary, free basis.
I paid for my children’s educations and if they had participated in something like this, I’d have cut them off! I guess with student loans, you can take the minimum hours and have time to demonstrate all over the country.
There is just one problem. The HR departments have now been infiltrated with these zampolits.
They need to bust out their therapy chickens.
150 students and campus groups huh, exactly what percentage of the total student body and groups would that be?
No great loss, actually no loss at all.
MADE ME LAUGH.
“........a resident scholar”?
Really? Doesn’t sound all that bright to me.
They forgot to add scholar in LGBT-WXYZ underwater basket-weaving and latino studies to that.
LOL!
I warned you!!! ;-)
advertising the location of a “safe space” for anyone who might feel traumatized by Sommers’s opposing views.
Seriously? You are college students? He is a free clue. You will not make it in life. You will not survive or thrive. To survive and thrive you need a spine and clearly if you need a “safe place” to shelter you from someone that does not think the same as you, you lack that spine.............
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