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University of Chicago Tells Incoming Students: Don't Expect Safe Spaces or Trigger Warnings [View all]
megahertz
Aug 2016
OP
I understand you to mean that you reject the concept of trigger warnings utterly.
Brickbat
Aug 2016
#10
If you pay me $10/hr., I'll be the college cryer who bangs a drum and issues warnings. OK?
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#59
Like the old DU "hidden post" warnings, some warnings are impossible to resist.
JustABozoOnThisBus
Aug 2016
#18
Glad you are a good shot, and follow safety recommendations, "fellow" enthusiast
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#169
That's where I received both my masters degrees from, and they employed our current president.
Exilednight
Aug 2016
#21
I never received such "kid gloves" from my parents when I was a small child!
Buckeye_Democrat
Aug 2016
#20
Because you're not doing these kids any favors making them think the world is fair. nt
MadDAsHell
Aug 2016
#98
First, please show where the UC allows bigotry to be practiced on their campus, or in a classroom.
Ikonoklast
Aug 2016
#75
Yes, deal with it, enact change. What exactly is the alternative? Crawl in a hole?
MadDAsHell
Aug 2016
#100
Most offices and adult education classes I've known seem closer to the safe space side of things
Chathamization
Aug 2016
#74
Huh, what? Safe spaces are bad because harassment exists? How does that begin to make sense?
Chathamization
Aug 2016
#81
Even McDonald's says it's opposed to offensive jokes in the workplace. I'd say it's pretty common
Chathamization
Aug 2016
#91
No, I'm appreciating the fact that neither the workplace nor a university is the entire world
Chathamization
Aug 2016
#186
You do realize that most business that have customers, if those customers abuse the...
Humanist_Activist
Aug 2016
#225
If a waitress gets groped, hopefully the offending customer is kicked out by management and...
Humanist_Activist
Aug 2016
#224
Free speech in quotes has proven to be a consistent indicator of a pending authoritarian post...
TipTok
Aug 2016
#73
I remember getting a syllabus well before classes began. That might be a good place
KittyWampus
Aug 2016
#49
Being fair, history, like science, is a bit different from literature or art....
Moonwalk
Aug 2016
#64
The warning is not for the bored little snowflakes, it's for people who have been abused.
haele
Aug 2016
#71
Probably the wrong place to ask, but this is a good opportunity so I'll risk it.
whatthehey
Aug 2016
#46
I would think the syllabus would be a perfect opportunity to tag various issues.
KittyWampus
Aug 2016
#51
I was thinking we all could of used a warning on what was coming out of there at some point
Person 2713
Aug 2016
#54
There was a big one in 2007. Fortunately I pulled the trigger and got outta the market.
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#67
Excellent. "Trigger Warnings" and "Safe Spaces" are antithetical to a liberal education
hueymahl
Aug 2016
#38
Anyone walking around thinking that they are entitled to warnings about reality is deluded.
Moostache
Aug 2016
#40
How many people who are celebrating this have talkeded with students after campus wide threats?
loyalsister
Aug 2016
#53
So a rape survivor can't expect a "safe space" at the school counseling center?
thucythucy
Aug 2016
#56
Good. The best way to deal with disturbing and obnoxious ideas is to discuss them.
backscatter712
Aug 2016
#68
I agree with most of your post, but note that nearly all of the cancelled campus speakers over the..
MadDAsHell
Aug 2016
#101
I have not heard that any of these controversial speakers have been class requirements
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Aug 2016
#111
So, what all do we need to warn about if we're going to find every single possible
Bettie
Aug 2016
#187
you don't get into the U of C by tuning out information you don't agree with.
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2016
#97
If you read the actual letter, though, they are pretty clear that they're not talking about
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2016
#114
Wow, it really needed to come to this? When I went to college (1988 to 1993), we didn't have
4lbs
Aug 2016
#103
Rutgers does the same thing. Once people block the free transfer of information, growth is hampered.
TheBlackAdder
Aug 2016
#123
A university declaring that it is not a safe space, female students beware!
Lordquinton
Aug 2016
#124
They're not abrogating laws, they're just dismissing demands for ideological carve-outs.
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2016
#134
Safe spaces are places where marginalised groups can feel safe to talk freely
Lordquinton
Aug 2016
#212
Ok, so these people who face the actual real world every day of their lives
Lordquinton
Aug 2016
#223
You're the one insisting that minority students are too emotionally-fragile to handle debate.
NuclearDem
Aug 2016
#229
If other people by virtue of nothing more than their presence can be so debilitating
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2016
#230
"Hey who wants to help me kick this reporter out? I need some muscle over here."
NuclearDem
Aug 2016
#218
A despicable episode no different than the Bundy's seizing public land.
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2016
#220
Homes, workplaces, schools, churches, clubs, etc. are all safe spaces by other names.
DemocraticWing
Aug 2016
#125
While the big prestigious schools are saying they'll treat students as students . . .
DeltaLitProf
Aug 2016
#129
Often that doesn't happen anymore because the students refuse to let the speakers on campus at all..
MadDAsHell
Aug 2016
#145
"Some speakers shouldn't be 'tolerated.'" Wow, that is a chilling statement to read on here. nt
MadDAsHell
Aug 2016
#147
"We are free to speak. We are also free not to listen, and free to be impolite."
NaturalHigh
Aug 2016
#168
Oh dear, I've violated your safe space, and maybe should have posted a trigger warning.
hunter
Aug 2016
#185
No, I'm reasonably certain that the U of C is actually acting on their own committment to the
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2016
#172
You've seen people offended about that Blues Brothers scene? Honestly?
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2016
#184
I hear it- having someone trying to weasel in and teach creationism to my kids, would set me off.
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2016
#202
Oh yeah, the University of Chicago, what an ill-regarded educational dump.
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2016
#173
Ask Mizzou, Rutgers, Yale, DePaul, or the UC system if they think it's bogus.
NuclearDem
Aug 2016
#179
I highly doubt they're lining up "anti-science kooks" to speak at the U of C.
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2016
#238
Ask the folks in Chile. The ones who lived. Not kookery, just taking part in the coup of
jtuck004
Sep 2016
#242
If you're talking about Henry Kissinger, which is my assumption here
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2016
#243