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University of Chicago Tells Incoming Students: Don't Expect Safe Spaces or Trigger Warnings In their letter to incoming students: quote:Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so called ‘trigger warnings,’ we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual ‘safe spaces’ where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own. Your time has come all you special snowflakes . Emonazis can all get hosed. http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/univ-chicago-pushes-back-trigger-warnings-safe-spaces
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Aug 25, 2016 18:21
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If they're looking for a Safe space, they should go to the South side
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Aug 25, 2016 18:23
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cool a news thread thanks op your posting is appreciated
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Aug 25, 2016 18:23
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nice school for a clown to wear to the circus idiot
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Aug 25, 2016 18:24
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lmao that they even needed to do this in the first place
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Aug 25, 2016 18:24
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I feel like college/university should be a place to get confronted by things that make you uncomfortable and that make you dialogue with opponents and be exposed to new things and I support U of C's words on this matter. That said I feel like someone there doesn't get 'trigger warnings' because it's more like just letting people know what the topic will be before they get into it so they can make their own decision on whether they want to participate or not and I see nothing wrong with that? Tho obv it goes too far when people get mad that a pomegranate isn't tagged as 'gore.'
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Aug 25, 2016 18:26
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Well that's a good way to get your school free advertising on a bunch of conservative clickbait sites The sounds you hear are racist uncles furiously emailing for application packets.
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Aug 25, 2016 18:27
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Moridin920 posted:I feel like college/university should be a place to get confronted by things that make you uncomfortable and that make you dialogue with opponents and be exposed to new things and I support U of C's words on this matter. quote:Similarly, many universities are creating “safe spaces” where students can relax free from ideas that might be stressful or anxiety-inducing. Among these is Brown University, which last year created a room “with cookies, coloring books, bubbles, Play-Doh, calming music, pillows, blankets and a video of frolicking puppies” because a debate on sexual assault was taking place on campus. lmao college kids need bubbles, binkys and nappy naps
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Aug 25, 2016 18:27
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*farts in class* gently caress you, no trigger
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Aug 25, 2016 18:28
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Tom Gorman posted:lmao Yeah I mean there's providing areas for people to unwind and get some support/therapy and there's treating them like literal babies lol
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Aug 25, 2016 18:29
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Coincidentally that's where Bernie went.
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Aug 25, 2016 18:30
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Moridin920 posted:I feel like college/university should be a place to get confronted by things that make you uncomfortable and that make you dialogue with opponents and be exposed to new things and I support U of C's words on this matter. there's ways to tell people what's in a speech by telling people what the speech is called, not to mention things that are pretty graphic having a "warning: this has some mature content and might not be for everyone" have been around since before some tumblr brokebrains appropriated diagnosed mental disorders its a good idea in general because i honestly don't understand how people who have lived in self-segregation for the entirety of their childhoods are supposed to function in the adult world
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Aug 25, 2016 18:31
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Really though if you want to solve this 'problem' then change higher education and tuition and student finance poo poo such that university is again somewhere to go learn rather than a business designed to attract students then bilk them of all their money at the fastest rate possible. These universities on board with the Tumblr stuff don't loving care, they just want to pump up their application numbers. Business Gorillas posted:there's ways to tell people what's in a speech by telling people what the speech is called, not to mention things that are pretty graphic having a "warning: this has some mature content and might not be for everyone" have been around since before some tumblr brokebrains appropriated diagnosed mental disorders Yeah I agree. I just don't care if you want to call it a content advisory warning or spoiler warning or trigger warning or whatever. I agree that people take it way too fuckin far. Maybe they should nix the 'trigger warning' term just because it's toxic at this point. Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Aug 25, 2016 |
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Aug 25, 2016 18:32
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yasmin tayag gets fired from her job and moves back to scarlem get married to ~juffs~ human being gangsta
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Aug 25, 2016 18:32
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college is one big safe space
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Aug 25, 2016 18:33
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Good. gently caress this pussy generation.
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Aug 25, 2016 18:35
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tell the kids to shut the gently caress up and listen for onece
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Aug 25, 2016 18:35
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Business Gorillas posted:there's ways to tell people what's in a speech by telling people what the speech is called, not to mention things that are pretty graphic having a "warning: this has some mature content and might not be for everyone" have been around since before some tumblr brokebrains appropriated diagnosed mental disorders I think a whole generation of kids watched 9/11 live on TV and never really got over it Next-gen hippies. "Give us our iPhones and don't talk to us or we'll sue you"
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Aug 25, 2016 18:35
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Tell them to come here ! Something Awful/GBS is an officially designated Safe Space
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Aug 25, 2016 18:36
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they are just following what they think is the popular trend colleges/universities in the states are setting themselves up to be presses that suck in government tuition money and output worthless degrees, hoping to hell hillary wins everyone gets a passing grade so long as their tuition checks clear - and if the government is backing those checks then the potential to make free money is limitless
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Aug 25, 2016 18:36
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I've been watching 9/11 documentaries for weeks straight, never gets old
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Aug 25, 2016 18:36
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Decebal posted:Tell them to come here ! will u cry if i bottle pat in front of u
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Aug 25, 2016 18:36
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I hope they will be able to call white people talking about cultural relativism a stupid loving small dicked gringo now.
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Aug 25, 2016 18:37
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Falun Bong Refugee posted:I hope they will be able to call white people talking about cultural relativism a stupid loving small dicked gringo now. me 2
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Aug 25, 2016 18:38
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New University of Chicago Admission Test: A two hour sit down of Blazing Saddles. Any one that doesn't walk out gets in.
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Aug 25, 2016 18:40
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Parallax Scroll posted:lmao that they even needed to do this in the first place
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Aug 25, 2016 18:41
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reallivedinosaur posted:they are just following what they think is the popular trend yeah p much they're just trying to get more applications to justify raising tuitions even more (because we're more competitive to get into now dontcha know)
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Aug 25, 2016 18:41
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Aug 25, 2016 18:44
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this is making me upset
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Aug 25, 2016 18:45
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University of Chicago telling it like it is. Good poo poo.
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Aug 25, 2016 18:45
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Every book and class I have ever been to has readily accessible info through a syllabus or reviews about the content. Do people not know this?
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Aug 25, 2016 18:45
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Moridin920 posted:this is making me upset I too hate salads.
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Aug 25, 2016 18:45
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you think anyone ever called em 'cukes' ?
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Aug 25, 2016 18:45
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Nostratic posted:Good. gently caress this pussy generation.
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Aug 25, 2016 18:45
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Good thing "safe space" is nebulous, bullshit term. Otherwise this might actually mean something.
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Aug 25, 2016 18:45
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William Stoner posted:Every book and class I have ever been to has readily accessible info through a syllabus or reviews about the content. Mine haven't. Just sayin' Although all the special lectures and whatever I went that addressed anything real typically would make it known somehow beforehand so if you show up and then go 'this is upsetting me stop talking about X!' you're just being a piss bitch.
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Aug 25, 2016 18:46
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Moridin920 posted:Mine haven't. Just sayin' "professor can I get the syllabus?" "no, gently caress you"
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Aug 25, 2016 18:49
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They should continue to be pampered and coddled and infantilized, to keep them weak
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Aug 25, 2016 18:49
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Lt. Chips posted:Good thing "safe space" is nebulous, bullshit term. Otherwise this might actually mean something. the same thing goes for "trigger warnings" since "triggers" already have a very specific meaning for people with PTSD and idiots looking to project their problems onto anyone else but themselves have taken the word and tried to define it to "thing i don't like"
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Aug 25, 2016 18:50
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Business Gorillas posted:the same thing goes for "trigger warnings" since "triggers" already have a very specific meaning for people with PTSD and idiots looking to project their problems onto anyone else but themselves have taken the word and tried to define it to "thing i don't like" Yeah I've always felt bad for people who actually have PTSD from Vietnam/Korea or whatever and poo poo who now get to deal with all this crap.
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Aug 25, 2016 18:51
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