Is the rise of "safe spaces" bringing back the era of segregation?

[Warren DeMontague]

29. I think the bullshit about snowflakes is tired, frankly.

Millennials are the most progressive generation this country has ever seen, and it is DIRECTLY thanks to them that we have seen such rapid social change in areas like LGBT marriage equality and ending the drug war/marijuana legalization.

Despite that, they catch a truckton of shit, some of it perhaps deserved but a lot of it bull.

You want to ask who the people are, generationally, most invested in things like banning the sports illustrated swimsuit issue and throwing down censorship on the internet because they don't like nekkid bodies --- or stopping pot legalization--- by and large it is older folks, particularly boomers who have swung back from their youth to hypocritical morals panic and culture-in-crisis conservatism.

My own generation is hardly exempt from being full of shit, at times, even though we're the funniest and most underappreciated, sigh.

But that said, enough already, with the snowflakes and whatnot. We had plenty of threads about the housing question, and the end sort of result was, yeah, it's kind of fucked up but people will choose who they want to live with. Personally, I think college should be a time for new experiences, broadening horizons and challenging ones' own biases and stereotypes, and willfully self-selecting any group where you know the results ahead of time kind of defeats that purpose.

But what do I know, I got put in the dorms with a death metal roommate because the numbskull doing the room assignments thought that's what "Grateful Dead" meant. It worked out about as well as you might think.