# Chalk on the sidewalk, Boo hoo hoo **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 24, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025 "2016-03-24T15:20:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025/21 "2016-03-24T17:15:56Z")
> [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > I just… do they not read _1984_ in high schools anymore? What, and risk triggering students who had a negative experience with their big brother? You, sir, are worse than Hitler. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025/22 "2016-03-24T17:33:26Z")
> [@](#): > > “I’m supposed to feel comfortable and safe [here],” one student said. Why do students keep saying that? I’m talking about the “comfortable” part. Of course they should feel safe, but if you don’t sometimes feel uncomfortable, then you’re not doing things right. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025/23 "2016-03-24T17:36:08Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Why do students keep saying that? I’m talking about the “comfortable” part. Of course they should feel safe, but if you don’t sometimes feel uncomfortable, then you’re not doing things right. says a lot about the way they were raised. parents raising them to believe they’re the center of the universe, always shielding or rescuing them from anything even mildly unpleasant, and teaching them to believe their opinions are facts. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025/24 "2016-03-24T17:40:39Z")
[Mundane, pointless] I keep wanting to sing the title of this thread, to the tune of “Up On the House Top.” _Chalk on the sidewalk, Boo hoo hoo, Students are nitwits at Emory U._ ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025/25 "2016-03-24T17:52:52Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I’ve seen numerous articles about students complaining about college professors that dare discuss controversial subjects or asks them to read a book like Huckleberry Finn. They feel uncomfortable and threatened. :smack: > > I’m not sure how anyone can grow and mature intellectually without having their view of the world challenged occasionally. By “Trump 2016” graffiti? Seriously? :rolleyes: Anybody who feels challenged by that has a heap of growin’ and maturin’ to do. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025/26 "2016-03-24T17:59:50Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > By “Trump 2016” graffiti? Seriously? :rolleyes: Anybody who feels challenged by that has a heap of growin’ and maturin’ to do. You do realize thats precisely the topic of this thread? As incredible as it may be; these students not only complained once. They held a rally. It boggles the mind how these snowflakes will cope in the adult world. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025/27 "2016-03-24T18:01:05Z")
Helicopter parenting is surely part of it, but [Filter bubbles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble) probably haven’t helped these kids, either. They spend half their lives on the internet, where search engines and social media filter out the nasty bits (including disagreeable political content) and only deliver the content they want to see (including agreeable political content). Now they’re suddenly faced with differing opinions that they can’t get away from (e.g. chalk signs they have to walk by), and they’re freaked out. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025/28 "2016-03-24T18:17:37Z")
At first glance the guy in the photo looks like Fred Armissen, which makes this seem even more like a bit on Portlandia. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025/29 "2016-03-24T18:20:34Z")
I can’t wait until these kids graduate and start looking for jobs. “But I don’t feel comfortable not making $100,000 a year.” ☹ ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025/30 "2016-03-24T18:31:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Roughly 40 students gathered shortly after 4:30 p.m. in the outdoors space between the Administration Building and Goodrich C. White Hall; many students carried signs featuring slogans such as “Stop Trump” or “Stop Hate” and an antiphonal chant addressed to University administration, led by College sophomore Jonathan Peraza, resounded “You are not listening! Come speak to us, we are in pain!” OK, firstly, what is an “antiphonal” chant? Secondly, “we are in pain”??? ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025/31 "2016-03-24T18:43:16Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > I can’t wait until these kids graduate and start looking for jobs. Somebody should start a website which keeps a list of all the ridiculous cry-baby snowflake protests on campuses. The site should be embedded in all the job-hunting sites, (like monster dot com, etc), so that they scan the list along with all the resumes . And then employers should state that if your resume includes a degree from any of the listed cry-baby campuses, they will _NOT_ read it. Like those policy notices “We test for drugs”. But this one would say “We test for stupid snowflakes”. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025/32 "2016-03-24T18:50:28Z")
_One day when God was walking around heaven to medidate, Who should he see but Harry chalkin’ slogans on the gate? Chalkin’ slogans on the gate, slogans on the gate Who should he see but Harry chalkin’ slogans on the gate?_ [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIaRyaQw4N0) ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025/33 "2016-03-24T18:53:57Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > A “Trump 2016” _sidewalk chalking_ merits student protests?! These kids need more homework or something else better to do. I keep thinking what a massive bunch of whiners they are. I mean, it’s not like someone chalked something _actually_ offensive on the pavement, but instead mere support statements for a political candidate. And really, aren’t universities supposed to be bastions of free speech, not where whiners try and censor political statements that they merely don’t like? That seems like 180 degrees off from what I thought part of the point of free thought and speech in universities is supposed to be about? Beyond that, had some group reacted with as much whiny butt-pain as this, my friends and I would probably have gone out of our way to blanket the campus in Trump stuff in a sort of chain-yanking response. I’m honestly surprised nobody did that in this case. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025/34 "2016-03-24T19:06:10Z")
It’s possible it was chain-yanking in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025/35 "2016-03-24T19:41:01Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > OK, firstly, what is an “antiphonal” chant? Call and response: What do we want? _TO BE COMFORTABLE!_ When do we want it? _SOMETIME IN THE NEAR FUTURE!_ Kids these days. Back in my day, they used to tear-gas us. _And we liked it!_ ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025/36 "2016-03-24T20:58:49Z")
Got it. I don’t have any kids, myself, but I don’t know any kids that act like this. It must be some small minority, no? ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025/37 "2016-03-24T21:16:13Z")
I’m all for social justice but fucking get over yourself students, some asshats trolled you. This doesn’t require a university response ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025/38 "2016-03-25T01:08:55Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Call and response: > > What do we want? > _TO BE COMFORTABLE!_ > > When do we want it? > _SOMETIME IN THE NEAR FUTURE!_ > Kids these days. Back in my day, they used to tear-gas us. _And we liked it!_ Sometimes they shot us at Kent State. Son House did a jazz call and response, although he does both, [John the Revelator.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7m-Kenqhpk) ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025/39 "2016-03-25T01:38:57Z")
The worst part is that the university president has declared that they are going to go through camera footage and take disciplinary action against the students who did the chalking. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025/40 "2016-03-25T02:42:50Z")
Actually it might be a good idea to have someone from Kent State who was there when the shootings happened come to the school for a discussion. Then perhaps these kids will learn what it’s REALLY like to be frightened on campus. > [@Richard\_Parker](#): > > This is the fundamental tension created by the embrace of so-called “hate speech” by many on the Left and some on the Right. > > It is foolish to imagine that you can draw a consistent line between hate speech and extreme political speech. Trump is the perfect example of an inhabitant of the gray area in between. If the chalk had been “David Duke 2016” would that be OK? How about “No more Muslim immigrants?” Seriously? You’re equating supporting an actual political candidate, asshole that he may be, to saying “No Muslims”? :dubious: Christ, what do these kids do when they see a Trump bumpersticker, or turn on the TV, wet themselves? :smack: (Please, I don’t want to be on this planet anymore.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chalk-on-the-sidewalk-boo-hoo-hoo/750025.md?page=3)