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libs on facebook are unhinged over UChicago's anti-safe space policy
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Date: August 28th, 2016 4:59 PM Author: bateful pistol guy posted a link to story on UChicago and said bravo! Libs' vilification immediately followed. One actually claims college campuses are more dangerous than Syria. see, eg.
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Date: August 28th, 2016 4:59 PM Author: razzle ruddy theatre Good. XO UCHI (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3334839&forum_id=2#31285081) |
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Date: August 28th, 2016 5:04 PM Author: Topaz Contagious Rehab Gunner what world are they living in (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3334839&forum_id=2#31285108) |
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Date: August 28th, 2016 5:05 PM Author: bateful pistol using that one woman's logic, you couldn't talk about even the most basic, innocuous staples of life we take for granted, such as air (what if a student knew someone who died in a plane crash?) or water (what if they had a relative who drowned?) b/c it could potentially trigger a student. why even bother teaching or learning anything at all - it's bound to offend someone. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3334839&forum_id=2#31285116) |
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Date: August 28th, 2016 5:15 PM Author: ultramarine submissive toaster telephone I think the problem with "safe spaces" is like so many lib theories they involve only a minimal amount of thinking.
I understand the argument that people who were raped have suffered enough and it might trigger bad feelings to hear about rape. If there was any evidence that it put people in physical danger or something similar I could understand a nationwide push to develop trigger warnings.
But it seems more reasonable that getting triggered about a past traumatic event is a natural response to trauma, and is maybe even part of the healing process. To act like it is this mythical thing just makes everyone live in fear. |
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Date: August 28th, 2016 5:16 PM Author: flickering really tough guy coldplay fan not the most poorly written or exaggerated response i've ever seen, but reveals how inflated their number of "victims" is and how extreme their idea of interacting with these people has become.
my roommate in college got called up multiple times in the guard because of 9/11 and did time in Iraq. i know he encountered some stressful situations. that doesn't mean that I kept the TV off around him or knocked before i entered our apartment. but i also didn't forward him links to firefight footage or airstrikes either. |
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Date: August 28th, 2016 10:32 PM Author: bespoke awkward menage milk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3334839&forum_id=2#31287195) |
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Date: August 28th, 2016 10:33 PM Author: unholy vermilion whorehouse Lmao you should have seen the tufts class page bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3334839&forum_id=2#31287206) |
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Date: August 28th, 2016 10:35 PM Author: bespoke awkward menage milk screenshots now fagt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3334839&forum_id=2#31287224) |
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Date: August 28th, 2016 11:30 PM Author: Cerebral Federal School They just cannot tolerate any kind of dissent (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3334839&forum_id=2#31287637) |
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Date: August 29th, 2016 2:15 AM Author: Twisted flatulent newt PTSD is almost exclusively a bullshit diagnosis, and these people need to shut the fuck up and get over shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3334839&forum_id=2#31288308) |
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Date: August 29th, 2016 1:47 PM Author: cracking crotch chapel That, and I think the society-wide mentality of exalting PTSD as the worst thing ever is encouraging people to handle it badly and embrace victim mentality. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3334839&forum_id=2#31290579) |
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Date: August 29th, 2016 2:00 PM Author: charcoal sick casino I ultimately agree with this but I think my beta nit-picking answer below is more viable in today's climate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3334839&forum_id=2#31290700) |
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Date: August 29th, 2016 1:44 PM Author: Rose principal's office uchicago actually still has official safe spaces for lgbt though. it merely made trigger warnings at professors' discretion and said you can't shout down invited speakers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3334839&forum_id=2#31290554) |
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Date: August 29th, 2016 1:46 PM Author: Bistre Wild Hall Dog Poop "so many of my peers were raped. Male and female."
LOL WTF?
How are college campuses RAPE ZONES these days with men and women just being raped everywhere nonstop? |
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Date: August 29th, 2016 1:46 PM Author: charcoal sick casino I'm actually amazed that a major American university would come out and do this. Not for shitlib reasons, just because I thought they were all whipped. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3334839&forum_id=2#31290573) |
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Date: August 29th, 2016 1:58 PM Author: charcoal sick casino I think the crux of why trigger warnings are bad is this:
They undermine the seriousness of the subject.
What if, for instance, testable material is deemed a potential trigger? In a class on, say, The Holocaust, it would be almost impossible to avoid this. Would the student get to opt out of the exam on the basis of their PTSD, or write a modified exam? If so, to what extent has the academic validity of their grade been compromised?
So if the subjects that contain 'triggering' material are serious at all, and their content crucial to understanding the subject, then the PTSD people need to be told beforehand what they're getting into.
I actually think 'trigger warnings' on ENTIRE CLASSES makes more sense, than trigger warnings on content in a class. I could see a school maybe warning kids that, "this class has some disturbing stuff in the multimedia presentations, take at your own risk." That would be not-unreasonable. But letting kids opt out of in-class content on the basis of 'triggers' raises a really uncomfortable dilemma: either a) they CAN understand the course completely, 100%, to the fullest, without taking in the 'triggering' content, in which case the prof is just inserting mentally traumatizing content for no good reason; or b) they CAN'T, and academic standards are being compromised just so students with PTSD can take a highly-edited, watered-down version of a course and get credit for it.
I'll illustrate this with an extreme: consider medical school without potentially triggering content. I have no doubt that dead corpses could be a trigger for many war vets. Do they get to skip the autopsy curriculum? Do they still get to be called doctors taking this incomplete, dissection-free version of med school? |
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Date: August 29th, 2016 1:58 PM Author: Bossy plaza Why should we coddle and futilely attempt to tailor the entire world to suit each person's peculiar and delicate sensitivities instead of encouraging people to confront and overcome their problems?
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Date: August 29th, 2016 1:59 PM Author: at-the-ready stag film It's amazing to me to see how many of these libs think that "trigger warnings" are ONLY used conscientiously (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3334839&forum_id=2#31290692) |
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Date: August 29th, 2016 2:02 PM Author: Painfully Honest Self-centered Hissy Fit Orchestra Pit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3334839&forum_id=2#31290729) |