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2016-09-24 Home Front: Culture Wars

Northwestern Univ. President Calls Those Who Decry Safe Spaces, Trigger Warnings 'Lunatics'

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-24 06:39|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 All of this bullshit about "microaggressions," "safe spaces,""trigger warnings" and the like is a very recent innovation. Is there something about the latest batch of larval-stage humans attending our universities these days that makes them uniquely vulnerable in ways we were not? Mankind got along just fine for thousands of years without this crap.

Posted by Dave D. 2016-09-24 07:41|| 2016-09-24 07:41|| Front Page Top

#2 These people need to be committed for their own safety. Maybe after 30 years of ECT and lobotomy's they'll be able to live a normal healthy life as an organ donor or something else useful.

Posted by Silentbrick 2016-09-24 08:08|| 2016-09-24 08:08|| Front Page Top

#3 I guess I'm among the legions of deplorables and idiots. Permit me to say "GFY." You can bet it doesn't mean "Good For You." "Safe Spaces?" Horsepucky, we have never been a country about safe spaces; how the hell do you think this country got settled or kept free? Guess you wouldn't know about that. The biggest threat to this country today is from demagogue community organizers like you and grifters like Hillary who are looting the country.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-09-24 08:09|| 2016-09-24 08:09|| Front Page Top

#4 The sorts of people who NEED "safe spaces" just means that when they come out into the real world...OUR world, BTW. We eat them for Lunch. We take their jobs. We father the children while they sit in each other's faces.

The world is competitive and the competitive aren't into micro aggressions. We are more into squashing you flat and leaving you beside the road. Too bad you lose, wussy ass.

Posted by Clereting White5441 2016-09-24 09:32|| 2016-09-24 09:32|| Front Page Top

#5 So much for the value of a piece of paper from NW. Think real hard about hiring a snowflake that can't handle the demands and stress of life. You'll be sued relentlessly by these types trying to turn the world into their personal fantasy. Best to cut it off in the hiring process before it impacts your paycheck.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-09-24 09:58|| 2016-09-24 09:58|| Front Page Top

#6 PJ O'Rourke would be proud of that mini-rant CW5441. Well done! Might steal.

Never a good idea to steal from a Hemingway, Ship...

Posted by Shipman 2016-09-24 10:01|| 2016-09-24 10:01|| Front Page Top

#7 The world is competitive and the competitive aren't into micro aggressions

Amazing isn't it how the Left which thinks itself 'scientifically' based never heard of Darwin and adaptation. Yeah, I know they've corrupted science in order to twist their failed agendas into the system, debasing it just like the coinage. And they wonder why the fail, time and again.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-09-24 10:01|| 2016-09-24 10:01|| Front Page Top

#8 If this wasn't so sad it could be funny. Way back in 1981 I was introduced at work to New Age Thinking and Valuing Differences. Be tolerant of differences we were told, we asked will they be tolerant of me?
How far can you tolerate the intolerant and who gets to make the call on what is and isn't? Of course it was unanswerable and the whole program died with a whimper.

It was hilarious because in the software world few people put up with this nonsense.

Personally I find these calls for safe spaces etc. to be attempts to macro-aggress against me. These are just as insulting and stress inducing as anything that the snowflakes quake over so they should all be sanctioned severely.

Posted by AlanC 2016-09-24 10:22|| 2016-09-24 10:22|| Front Page Top

#9 This isn't new. These snowflakes were bred and grown for this. From 'nobody loses' basketball games to participation trophy's. This is the result of decades of pampering and spoiling our children so they don't get 'emotionally scarred'.

And if you think they will go away when they graduate think again. They will be in your HR office. They will be the 'consultants' your upper management hires to tell people with decades of real-life experience how to do their job.
They are experts of concocting flashy power point presentations and 'expert' sounding titles to convince your management that they are much wiser than you would every be.

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-09-24 10:35|| 2016-09-24 10:35|| Front Page Top

#10 IMO, you'all missing a point. Once they get some power, they'll try to make a worldwide safe space by eliminating dangerous characters like us. And their definition of dangerous is very different from ours. Like, for example, Stalin killing off the top 10% of the Soviet officer corp in 1940.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-24 11:20|| 2016-09-24 11:20|| Front Page Top

#11 If you believe that I have committed a micro-aggression towards you please accept my micro-apology.

Posted by DepotGuy 2016-09-24 11:25|| 2016-09-24 11:25|| Front Page Top

#12 I think grom has it: Hillary called us "deplorable", "irredeemable", and not fit to be Americans for a reason. It's all eliminationist rhetoric, carefully parsed (what Clintons do best) and fed to the media. Her most ardent supporters get the message.

When a thug says he doesn't like you and is going to do something about it the minute he gets power and the chance to do so, you should believe him.

Posted by Steve White 2016-09-24 14:21|| 2016-09-24 14:21|| Front Page Top

#13 g(r)om beat me to it, and is right.

Humanity has not gone without this before, just a new package.

When Melissa Click calls for muscle, the spacers approach the BLM.

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-09-24 14:30|| 2016-09-24 14:30|| Front Page Top

#14 When a university president has to resort to high school name-calling to defend his argument, he's not winning that argument.

Posted by Raj 2016-09-24 15:02|| 2016-09-24 15:02|| Front Page Top

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