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Kraken wrote:

Moliere wrote:Part IV: Yale Students and Nicholas Kristachis

I can't decide whether I should laugh or cry when I see these students accost administrators about safe spaces.

I have no context for this video. What horrible offense did this monster commit?

Chrisoc13 wrote:

Kraken wrote:

Moliere wrote:Part IV: Yale Students and Nicholas Kristachis

I can't decide whether I should laugh or cry when I see these students accost administrators about safe spaces.

I have no context for this video. What horrible offense did this monster commit?

There's actually a good article in the Atlantic from may of this year about it. I'm on my phone now but when I'm by a computer I'll try and drop a link to it.

Moliere wrote: Since Isgrimnur seems to be on vacation I will do his job for him:

Isgrimnur wrote:Makes for full days.

Moliere wrote:I hope your company provides a safe place for you to unwind, play with Play-Doh, and meditate.

Isgrimnur wrote:I tacked on three days to my flight so I can vacate in SD with the wife.

LordMortis wrote:I know about nothing about safe spaces, so I have no opinion on that but...

Whatever to the email. I can see where it opens a dialog that turns into a debate where emotions run high.

but...

Yale? This is representative of the student body at Yale? Yale's got problems with admissions unless that truly indicative of 18-22 years olds in this country, which is not my (limited) experience. That's not evidence of tomorrow's leadership. That's evidence of tomorrow's who can't hold a job because they insist they are mistreated for not being awarded advantage.

"you don't know my name?"
"You take care of me?"
"I talk and you listen?"

But their experiences as Jewish students at the SOCC would soon inspire a rude awakening: the campus progressives who were fighting for justice on college campuses for students of color weren’t only ignoring anti-Semitism and attacks on Jewish identity—they were sometimes the ones perpetuating it.

This was quickly made clear on the first day at a session called “Existence is Resistance,” hosted by leaders of UC San Diego’s SJP chapter. Students discussed the boycott of Israel as an issue of urgency for students of color. Rosenberg and Mokhtarzadeh told me that they originally had no intention to engage in dialogue about Israel at the conference, but they were horrified at how attacks on Israel soon devolved into attacks on the Jews. “The session went way beyond the boundaries of what was appropriate or truthful at the SOCC,” Rosenberg recalled.

malchior wrote:I think we have to point to Bernie for that effect. They were very enthusiastic for him. Maybe he should have tempered his language and downplayed his chance at securing the nomination in the face of the Trumpocalypse instead of creating incredible enthusiasm with the concomitant let down when that evaporated. We'll have to wait and see if it really was Bernie or bust for many young folks.

[Yellowbrick] is aimed at people roughly between the ages of 18 and 30, some of whom suffer from a Problem only recently attributed to American youth: the failure to launch from childhood onto the shores of something recognizably, functionally adult.

These students raise the following objections to the film some fifteen years after its release:

* First, younger trans oriented audiences want to know if Peirce herself is trans. And they understand her as a non-trans person who is making money from the representation of violence against transgender bodies.
* Second, they ask about the casting of a non-trans identified actor in the role of Brandon and wonder why a transgender man was not cast to play Brandon.
* Third, students in particular have objected to the graphic depiction of rape in the film and feel that the scene is poorly orchestrated and the film is too mired in the pathologization and violation and punishment of transgender bodies.

Isgrimnur wrote:

These students raise the following objections to the film some fifteen years after its release:

* First, younger trans oriented audiences want to know if Peirce herself is trans. And they understand her as a non-trans person who is making money from the representation of violence against transgender bodies.
* Second, they ask about the casting of a non-trans identified actor in the role of Brandon and wonder why a transgender man was not cast to play Brandon.
* Third, students in particular have objected to the graphic depiction of rape in the film and feel that the scene is poorly orchestrated and the film is too mired in the pathologization and violation and punishment of transgender bodies.

Moliere wrote:Yes, I read the article too.

Moliere wrote:

Are these signs directed at Trump? Maybe some other evil conservative/Republican? Nope.

Students at Reed college are protesting Kim Peirce, the gay director of the movie "Boys Don’t Cry". A movie that tells the story of the gender variant Brandon Teena who was raped and murdered. The Left is literally figuratively eating itself into absurdity.

The school said “peer educators” will still provide “Stress Busters” programs for students, which includes an event that lets cadets color.

“Stress Busters is held on Reading Day of each semester,” the school said. “This is an opportunity for cadets to unwind and relax before studying for finals. This event often includes stress reduction activities such as yoga, therapy dogs, coloring book stations, card/game stations, and grab-and-go snacks to take with you on your way to study!”

The school’s Cadet Peer Educators program offers a “bystander intervention” program to teach cadets to “identify barriers to bystander intervention, establish skills/techniques to intervene, and to provide [Virginia Military Institute] and Lexington resources to all cadets in attendance.”

The school also posts flyers on health in bathroom stalls.

“VMI once took America’s youth and prepared them for duty and the harsh realities of war,” a VMI alumnus and veteran told the Washington Free Beacon. “Now, for $20k a year, VMI will turn your teenagers back into children.”

Holman wrote:I can't help thinking that most of the "safe space" anecdotes making the rounds are inflated or stripped of context. I've worked on six campuses in the past sixteen years, and I don't see signs that students are the crippled babies we're always hearing described.

I think the fringes and extremes are being mistaken for the core, sometimes in order to de-legitimize real concerns.

Defiant wrote:On Campus, Trump Fans Say They Need ‘Safe Spaces’

I find the irony amusing.