My bad, you are correct. At the end they did block a public intersection.
The funny thing is, most of the protesting students in the video appeared to be white themselves.
It’s more that college students can fall victim to quasi-intellectual fads. “Safe spaces” is one of them. College is the furthest thing from a safe space, by design. If they want a safe space, I suggest a Donald Trump supporters meetup. They’ll find they have a lot in common with his supporters.
Segregation never went out of style.
Look, the left is right on so many issues. But there are douchebags everywhere. Teenagers are disproportionately douchebaggish. I encountered that when I was a college student. I bet you did too. When douchebags are college students and are political activists, sometimes they do stuff like this. Don’t let them get away with it, but also don’t lose sleep over douches douching.
This is why I’ve been maintaining that the next American demagogue will be from the Left. And he will have a good chance of winning.
Maybe I’m getting paranoid about moderation of late, but I’m gonna clarify anyway: I’m not saying Hurricane was a douchebag in college, I’m saying he, like I, encountered douchebag college students.
This, I think, is nonsense. On the left, you find this sort of OTT rhetoric coming from undergrads, and the rare tenured professor. On the right, you find this sort of OTT rhetoric coming from Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and Franklin Graham and Sarah Palin and Donald Fucking Trump.
Leftwing jerks exist, no doubt about it. Rightwing jerks have taken over the monkey house.
Historically that was the case, but I don’t know if that’s true anymore, or at least is becoming less true. When Emory University students were traumatized by pro-Trump slogans chalked around campus earlier this year, the university president, Jim Wagner, sent out an email that said “It is important that we recognize, listen to, and honor the concerns of these students, as well as faculty and staff who may feel similarly.”
Thanks for the BC info. I’d never heard of that before. Also, while I appreciate the clarification, I understood what you meant the first time. Better safe than sorry I guess.
No, it’s not true. Historically colleges were bastions of wealthy white males, and women and minorities and poor people had to fight tooth and nail to break into this safe space. Women’s colleges and HBCs were established as a way to do an end-run around these safe spaces for rich white dudes, letting women and black people get educations even though they weren’t allowed into the white dude safe space.
Not to hijack but I wonder how all-black or all-women colleges comply with Title IX.
I’m pretty sure there are exceptions for same sex colleges, mens colleges included. As for race, black colleges now admit white students(perhaps they always have?), but not that many white students choose black colleges.
I don’t find this argument compelling. Said douchebags had to learn that crap about safe spaces somewhere, whether it’s parents, teachers, or colleges.
They’re called community organizers.
I’m frankly amazed that A: the university didn’t arrest and expel every single student blocking the bridge and B: why the rest of the students didn’t beat them to a bloody pulp.
Boo. Hiss. You posted a thread predicated on a story about left-wing excess hosted at Fox News, a source which is well-established as being consistently and intentionally dishonest, particularly about such issues. You don’t get to complain when people call you on that crap. You may also notice that the Atlantic article has something the Fox article doesn’t: some actual nuance and understanding.
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Y’know, between the students and you, I think I know which party has the more offensive and nasty viewpoint…
Why would anybody have to fulfill stereotypes, and what could be more “stereotypish” than being surrounded exclusively by those who fall under the same stereotypes that you do?
I’ve spent my whole life shitting on stereotypes, anybody who expects me to fulfill them is in for some human manure.
Also, why would being around those like you help with not having to live up to stereotypes. Barack Obama has for years been talking about this:
I see a lot of misunderstanding of what safe spaces are – they’re meant to be places where people can come together and be guaranteed to not be harassed (or assaulted, etc.). Entire universities or other big places aren’t supposed to be safe spaces in this manner, but rather they ought to contain some small places that are “safe” for individuals who feel harassed, intimidated, or victimized to come and talk about their experiences without any backlash/harassment/etc.
That makes sense, but a BLM protest was considered a “safe space” by protesters, and they have no expectation of that during a protest. Counterprotesting is a given at any protest that matters and they should have considered it a sign of their success that counter protesters showed up. And that wasn’t even the issue. The real issue was media asking questions was making them feel unsafe. They were saying, “No press, this is a safe space.”
This comment itself lacks nuance.
I welcome correction on this point, but so far as I am aware Fox News has never fabricated a complete event. The “dishonesty” you refer to seems to rest mainly in one-sided reporting, as opposed to describing large-scale events that were total fiction.
So you cannot simply dismiss the report as being from Fox News here: it happened, and the Fox News story was sufficient evidence to prove it happened. If another news source provides “nuance,” then you’re welcome to cite it, but you cannot exercise intellectual rigor in debate and claim that Fox News cannot so much as be used to show that an event happened.