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KitSileya

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30. I agree with you.

Thu Mar 26, 2015, 03:18 AM

Mar 2015

It's like all these DUers, who moan about how the mainstream media presents GOP talking points as equally valid as facts (Climate change isn't happening because I can throw a snow ball on the Senate floor! is just as valid an opinion as that of 90% of the world's climate scientists, doncha know?) have no problems with presenting extremist righties as the equivalent of center-left liberals when it comes to the two issues of sexism and racism. It says a lot about where they are on the continuum themselves on these issues, I think.

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In College and Hiding From Scary Ideas [View all] cali Mar 2015 OP

The asshole part of me thinks that XemaSab Mar 2015 #1

well put. cali Mar 2015 #2

+1 deutsey Mar 2015 #3

"how can you have a therapeutic space that’s also an intellectual space?" hack89 Mar 2015 #4

yeah, it is. and frankly, I though the babyish "safe space" created at cali Mar 2015 #6

That's what confused me tammywammy Mar 2015 #10

Reminds me of the parents of a student in an Art survey class who objected to nude paintings... cyberswede Mar 2015 #15

Was it a college level course? tammywammy Mar 2015 #17

Yep - unbelievable! cyberswede Mar 2015 #18

Oh my goodness tammywammy Mar 2015 #19

Lets hope the kid never took a life drawing course cyberswede Mar 2015 #20

I remember we went to the art museum in elementary school as a field trip. tammywammy Mar 2015 #21

I Read This Article RobinA Mar 2015 #5

A broad pattern in contemporary mental health therapy is skills and tolerance development... HereSince1628 Mar 2015 #7

helpful post. thanks. cali Mar 2015 #8

Trigger warnings allow people to make decisions instead of being blind-sided. KitSileya Mar 2015 #29

I don't think there should be a problem... HereSince1628 Mar 2015 #32

Not to mention, in the rape culture we live in KitSileya Mar 2015 #34

This bothers me too, but then again, I've never had any sort of trauma. alarimer Mar 2015 #9

I have. cali Mar 2015 #11

I took a course on the Holocaust in college deutsey Mar 2015 #12

Almost allgood ideas taken to the extreme can become bad ideas. aikoaiko Mar 2015 #13

One of the best parts in the piece XemaSab Mar 2015 #25

On the other hand, most college students pay no attention to this MineralMan Mar 2015 #14

I think it does do harm and has the potential to do something really sad- cali Mar 2015 #16

I agree cwydro Mar 2015 #31

this kind of tension--between oversensitivity on one hand and excluding people geek tragedy Mar 2015 #22

Could you point me to the articles about minority students at the U. Of Oklahoma feeling cali Mar 2015 #23

before the SAE incident? geek tragedy Mar 2015 #24

People with weak convictions will loathe a challenge and love to control language Android3.14 Mar 2015 #26

I can't think of a single movement that has ever benefited from going dogmatic. redgreenandblue Mar 2015 #27

Queer people create safe spaces for ourselves, because so many places are unsafe for us. DemocraticWing Mar 2015 #28

I agree with you. KitSileya Mar 2015 #30

"Such euphemisms illustrate one major function of language, which is to keep reality at bay." bemildred Mar 2015 #33