Posted on 04/07/2016 5:22:01 AM PDT by simpson96
Students at the University of Michigan called police the other day — because someone had written Donald Trump’s name in chalk.
No arrests were made. The episode is part of a nationwide trend of Trump supporters writing pro-Trump messages on sidewalks, stairs, and other surfaces at college campuses, where fainting fits are sure to ensue.
they could get no relief from law enforcement, the University of Michigan students took it upon themselves to erase the offending messages — including “Trump 2016,” “Build the Wall” and “Stop Islam” — while fighting through feelings of betrayal.
One student complained that there should be a special emergency number to call in such cases — one wonders how often students are really going to need recourse to an unwelcome-chalk-message hotline — and said that the administration’s inadequate response “perpetuates these really racist and hateful stereotypes that turn into violence and turn into students of color feeling unsafe on campus.”
Rarely before have a few scribblings been so traumatizing — and written not even in ink or paint or some other difficult-to-remove substance, but in the same chalk used to mark out hopscotch courts and write temporary promotional messages about sorority mixers and student theatrical productions. That chalk messages can be considered tantamount to a physical threat captures the crisis of free speech on campus perfectly.
What has become known on social media as “the chalkening” demonstrates how some college kids can’t be exposed to the simplest expression of support for a major presidential candidate without wanting to scurry to the nearest safe space. By this standard, a “Make America Great Again” hat is a hate crime waiting to happen. It’s not clear how any of these students can turn on cable TV or look at the polls for the Republican nomination these days without being triggered.
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No worries, they will all get .gov jobs in the Department of Reeducating Bitter Clingers.
Clearly, they have never been told “Hell no! Now get your butt out of here and get back to work!” in their entire lives.
Next there will be campus-wide bans on card games that involve any kind of "trump suit" because the precious little darlings can't handle even hearing the word any more. Sadly, not satire, I fully expect it to actually happen.
Draw a picture of a McDonald’s in chalk with “get a job” as the tagline. Should sent the sociology and gender and race card studies majors into fits of tears when they realize their poor college major decisions will make their only safe space working at the fryer.
And that was the end of the weekly pinochle game.
“Nobody is this fragile...”
On the contrary, V_TWIN, there are millions of nobodies out there who are indeed that fragile.
Where can I buy a LARGE rubber stamp with indelible ink?
Vote TRUMP 2016
Oh how I’m tempted.
I guess none of them have ever played bridge or pinochle.
I would definitely bring them in just to teach them how to deal with rejection, however traumatizing.
“This needs to be nipped in the bud. (Can I say nipped?)”
Probably. You could also have said “excised”.
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime: the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity. ~ Robert Anson Heinlein
Some people cannot be protected from themselves.
Look at the color.
That’s racis.
Wanna bet? Thank you NEA and PC.
I agree. For every crybaby snowflake they hire, they better hire five lawyers. It’s going to be lawsuit city.
Unfortunately, in some areas, the police are only too happy to carry out this role.
The new fascism is being born.
My oldest son is in the Criminal Justice / Law Enforcement program (with Honors and full ride scholarship) at Western Illinois University.
He LAUGHS at the response of the females on Campus at the mere mention of Donald Trump. They go absolutely hysterical at the mere mention of his name. Apoplectic when posters show up.
Yes, they call campus police every time and demand the removal of anything Trump.
Pathetic.
In that case they are in for a real bad trip when the rest of isis gets here.
I hope none of the little dears are in the marching band. The son NR of trumpets must give them the vapors
I stopped hiring Ivy League grads. I need common sense and critical thinking skills from my staff, something which ivy leaguers do not have today. Don’t care if they can read and memorize a book better than someone else. They don’t understand, what’s the problem, what’s been impacted and what’s the action plan for fixing it?
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