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Free speech has more limitations than we realize. Especially the kind that offers differing opinions which just MIGHT hurt someone’s feeling or trigger a need for safe spaces. The latest free speech idiocy took place just the other day at Emory University. Students walking across campus and up & down stairs encountered these horrific images.
OH. THE. HORROR. The reaction by the “terrified” special snowflakes was swift, deadly, and oh so idiotic.
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!” throughout the Quad. Peraza opened the door to the Administration Building and students moved forward towards the door, shouting “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
They were in PAIN?? They are in chains?? Oh good grief, I cannot even begin to fathom how someone writing campaign slogans IN CHALK on a sidewalk could be considered any form of hate speech or would cause anyone one pain, mental or physical. Evidently SIDEWALK CHALK must now be feared!! Look, I’m not a fan of Trump and yes; in many cases he is and does look kinda scary…
Yet holding protests and demanding the university find new ways to deal with micro – or is it macro? aggressions because…CHALK puts these students, all .3% of them, on the same level of idiocy as Trump himself.
They must be made safe from any ideas that make them think! They must be coddled, protected, and kept away from the slings and arrows of any opinion that differs from their own. And by golly one must NEVER ever dare to use their own freedom of speech to chalk a campaign slogan onto a sidewalk that those super duper sensitive special snowflakes might have to walk on!
More chalk news: Screaming Campus Garbage Babies at Emory traumatized by 'Trump 2016' sidewalk scrawlhttps://t.co/NxtgszRnfa
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 24, 2016
Yep.
Emory U. "Trump 2016" in chalk on campus sidewalk. Students are traumatized. U. Prez to meet w them.
He should tell em to grow the hell up.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) March 24, 2016
Unfortunately he didn’t. Instead he legitimized their stupid micro aggression complaint in a ‘lets use big weird words bureaucratic’ sort of way. So, others are doing that for him.
@michaeljohns Hopefully Emory has a safe zone for thumb sucking students that includes pacifiers, stickers, building blocks, & crayons
— Wally Perko (@WallyPerko1) March 24, 2016
Harsh right? Well guess what guys. You and/or your parents are paying upwards of $60,000 per year to attend this university. Ostensibly you are at Emory in an effort to gather the tools, insight, and knowledge that will help you navigate the realities of life beyond a university campus.
“… Part of being in college is having experiences where you question your values, question what you believe. College is meant to be a time when you have diversity. Not just diversity of race but diversity of opinion, diversity of culture. It should not be that universities are just echo boxes, so people can’t encounter opinions they disagree with.”
So kiddies, let me ask you a question. If you can’t handle an opinion – CHALK messages on a sidewalk no less!, that differs from your own while a student in college; how in the world will you be able to navigate the disappointments that you’ll experience in the real world once you step out of your campus university safe space bubble? Right now the evidence clearly shows that you will fail spectacularly. So tell me again why your parents are footing your $60,000 college bill?
J walter says: Most likely a man wrote those. If the university finds out who did that. He will be titled IX off the campus and his life ruined. You think this is funny.
Our universities have become so hostile to men that they aren’t going to college anymore. What will be the societal effects of having 2 generations of uneducated, low earning, angry men with no hope of the American dream?
You can make light of this all you want but there is a demographic time bomb building. When it goes it will go big.
There is that possibility for sure. However, what is equally worrisome is how hostile those student snowflakes are to ANY ideas/opinions that differ from their own – no matter how misguided they are.
The fact that these particular snowflakes got so terrified over slogans written in CHALK is just one more example of the campus idiocy run amok
GWB says: “You are not listening! Come speak to us, we are in pain!”
I’d open the door and make an announcement on a bullhorn, “The Rite-Aid three blocks away is fully stocked with analgesics, and they accept the University student insurance program for OTC. I just called them, and they’re ready for you. You have just enough time to get there and back before the next class you should be in.” Then I would shut the door and ignore them.
Jodi says: What GWB said ^^^.
Jodi says: Now where’d I put that chalk…
OC says: Can I please have my America back?
I’d really like that to happen as well. One of the ways we can get our America back is to quit enabling and pandering to these kids!!
henry green says: Can you imagine the terror these darlings would experience if there were a ROTC unit on campus, complete with guns and sabers??? The horror!! I wonder if ISIS will give these precious, sensitive babies a safe space when they take over after the collapse of what remains of this country after the reign of our tango dancer in chief??
JPW says: You have yet to convince me that any of the four tossers left are better than The Donald. He is the punishment that a declining, unworthy society like Amerika deserves.
Appalled By The World says: I’d say bringing back the draft to instill some spine into today’s easily bruised yoots would be a good idea but the way the current regime has neutered much of the military it probably wouldn’t do much good anyway.
Richard says: The market value of a degree from Emory (and hence the employability of somebody possessing such a degree) just went permanently and irrevocably to zero. Welcome to the Missou club, infantile tools.
Have to agree with your assessment. Sadly there are those at Emory who won’t see this particular reality until its too late…
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