Yale and Mizzou protests might not be the safest spaces for differing opinions
- 8 years ago
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT — Racism definitely exists in the states, but how does creating artificial safe spaces within colleges solve the problem? Institutions of higher learning used to be a place where views were developed and challenged, now it seems like U.S. college students are softer than Charmin.
At Mizzou, Tim Wolfe stepped down after the football team refused to play amid controversy over race relations at the school. It didn't help that Wolfe almost ran over some protesters in October, but it also didn't help when protesters roughed up reporters, much like the CCP does to journos in China.
At Yale, an email was sent out before Halloween, basically telling students not to put on blackface, turbans or headdresses. When a professor wrote a counter email — in a sense asking why students couldn't decide for themselves — some students lost it and now want the professor and her husband, also a prof, booted.
In an open letter asking not to be coddled, students were appalled at the suggestion that they should meet offensive parties head on, without being given guidance about any modes or means to facilitate understanding. So apparently, these students DO want to be coddled.
Since when did student activism equate with censoring dissenting views? Maybe universities should just start offering social justice warrior degrees.
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At Mizzou, Tim Wolfe stepped down after the football team refused to play amid controversy over race relations at the school. It didn't help that Wolfe almost ran over some protesters in October, but it also didn't help when protesters roughed up reporters, much like the CCP does to journos in China.
At Yale, an email was sent out before Halloween, basically telling students not to put on blackface, turbans or headdresses. When a professor wrote a counter email — in a sense asking why students couldn't decide for themselves — some students lost it and now want the professor and her husband, also a prof, booted.
In an open letter asking not to be coddled, students were appalled at the suggestion that they should meet offensive parties head on, without being given guidance about any modes or means to facilitate understanding. So apparently, these students DO want to be coddled.
Since when did student activism equate with censoring dissenting views? Maybe universities should just start offering social justice warrior degrees.
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