Originally Posted by petegz28 (Post 11878623)

What are you, 5?

Originally Posted by petegz28 (Post 11878623)

What are you, 5?

Originally Posted by Reaper16 (Post 11878612)

The thing is though that words DO hurt, and it's arguably worse to collectively pretend that they don't.

And the thing about safe spaces that people ought to realize is that no one lives in a safe space. It's basically about having a therapeutic place -- a regular meeting, say -- where you can share your feelings with people who have similar experiences as you. Outside of a "safe space," people get mocked or belittled for sharing those feelings. People get confronted with "you're lying" or "that didn't happen" or "I don't believe you" or etc etc. by people who lack empathy or sympathy for those experiences. And to some degree that's fine. These students are in college after all, and they should expect their academic or political ideas to be questioned. But for certain disadvantaged groups (often we're talking about ethnic groups or LGBTQIA+ groups) they get A LOT more scrutiny than others, to the point of bullying and erasure. The idea of a safe space is to have a place where they can share without the constant challenging they get outside of the safe space. BY NO MEANS is an entire campus supposed to be a safe space; that's a misunderstanding of the concept.

"Microaggressions" shouldn't be a controversial term either. There's certain ways people get treated that aren't super confrontational but still serve to put down others, to treat them as lesser-than. Misgendering a person you know to be trans, for example. Or people walking across the street, clutching their purse, when a black person gets near. Or campus security letting white students walk into a building without checking ID but suddenly needing the young latina to produce a campus ID. These things aren't often blatantly hateful, but they wear on the people who experience them. I'd be surprised if anyone here doubts that these little prejudices happen in day to day life. Microaggressions is simply the word that's been decided upon to categorize these behaviors.

People are free to think that students these days are mentally weaker than in past generations because of their desire for these kinds of spaces and terms. I do think there's something to your guys' refrain that seeing oneself in constant victimhood can hold one back from the opportunities that ARE present. But I also think the same people suggesting that aren't being empathetic enough to the minority experience. It's simply emotionally harder to endure small daily prejudices than a lot of white Americans give it credit for. Ask your wives sometime about catcalling, and how much that wears down on them as women -- that's a thing that men can't fully understand too, because it simply doesn't happen to them. Similar thing.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 11878371)

Interim President Mike Middleton:



"Okay! We put a hyper-liberal minority in charge, are you happy now?"

Yeah...never saw that one coming.

Originally Posted by ChiTown (Post 11878566)

Just, all of it:clap:

What I meant to say is, just all of it sounds like a load of crap. But hey, I'm OBVIOUSLY not an "intellectual" like you, so........

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 11879076)

Professor Lambert again:

http://truthonthemarket.com/2015/11/12/my-office-door/

At this point I'm convinced he's the only person left on campus with a lick of common sense.

If more educators treated their students like adults as opposed to very large kindergarteners (i.e. the Reaper method), perhaps Universities would be useful again.

Originally Posted by petegz28 (Post 11878623)

What are you, 5?

Originally Posted by KCwolf (Post 11879088)

OK ... REAL question ... BYU -4 Solid ??

Originally Posted by Reaper16 (Post 11878537)

Part of the deal with discussions of racism is that people use the term to mean different things. Precisely, I'm differentiating between two major definitions. There's an older definition of racism as the belief that a race of people is superior to another race of people because of certain characteristics or etc. In this sense, the lady in this video is correct. Black Americans can hold those prejudices.

Other people use the definition of racism that has evolved over the last half century to mean that which creates, upholds, or reinforces a power system that seeks to unequally distribute rights, resources, and privileges among racial groups. (Increasingly, too, scholarship is coming to agree that race itself is a socially constructed category, meaning the concept of racism came before/created the concept of race rather than racism being some unavoidable byproduct of having different races live together). Importantly, this definition doesn't erase the concepts of prejudice or bigotry.

So if someone barges into a discussion saying "[insert non-white ethnic group here] can be racist too, not just white people!" Well, depending on which definition of racism the discussion group holds to, that comment is going to be met with derision or some "yeah, duh"s.

Originally Posted by Pablo (Post 11878625)

I bet he didn't go to sleep during Royals playoff games. That's something a child would do.

Originally Posted by Brock (Post 11879165)

Pfft. You're a dumbass, pete. You belong on facebook.

Originally Posted by kepp (Post 11879345)

So racism will always exist because, when one form is eradicated or weakened, it will be redefined. And you're okay with teaching this?