What you said offends me. Fuck your free speech.

[Elvis The Fat Years]

[Elvis The Fat Years]

del

[slunken]

silliman more like silly man o/

[slunken]

update: after much review and council, new student curriculum to inklude bottles, pacifiers, and regulated naptimes

[duovamp]

BEER BOTTLES AMIRITE! FOUR MORE BEERS! FOUR MORE BEERS!

[sppunk]

Starbucks has declared war on Christmas. TO HELL WITH THEM.

[slunken]

in my very humble opinion - the whole cry for a "safe place" is exactly where mother academia went wrong, and why so many great artists resort to teaching. its a comfortable birds nest.

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by slunken

in my very humble opinion - the whole cry for a "safe place" is exactly where mother academia went wrong, and why so many great artists resort to teaching. its a comfortable birds nest.

shut the fuck up clueless hipster

[slunken]

*does not accept troll bait*

[ninsp]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

shut the fuck up clueless hipster

Of course you'd side with the kids you mouthbreathing fat fuck

[vixnix]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...t-yale/414810/

I found that interesting.

To use an Aussie colloquialism, "What a bunch of fucken dickheads"

[Disco King]

I just read about this now. I dunno, I think people are right to criticize Christakis comment, because he conflated free speech with freedom from criticism. Like, duh, people should be free to wear culturally offensive costumes. The university's email was just a suggestion that they shouldn't. It wasn't legally-binding or anything, so it wasn't an imposition on free speech, so for Christakis to come out responding with FREEZE PEACH and JUST LOOK AWAY seems dumb.

On the other hand, I'm pretty ambivalent about the current trend of "safe spaces" and "trigger warnings" and all that. On the one hand, yeah, disadvantaged people need to have some spaces where they are free from the casual discrimination or prejudice that pervades society. On the other hand, it seems like these concepts are being used to shut down any discussion that certain people don't like, and I think a more strict criteria than "it's offensive" should be used to determine what sort of speech is tolerated in certain places, especially post-secondary classrooms, where you are supposed to challenge yourself with ideas that you may not like.

The professor's comment seems dumb, but I'm more sympathetic to those who would just call it out and talk about it than those who would call for him to resign because he's "not making the campus a safe space."

I dunno, I have a lot of ambivalence and dissonance on this sort of topic so thinking about it just bums me out these days.

[duovamp]

Science proved this all would've been avoided if women never got the right to vote.

[duovamp]

Is it just me or is craft beer too lamestream now?

[Trotskilicious]

its been lamestream since the day i was sick of goddamn ipa in 2010

can i also whole heartedly supporting ban on ethnic cosumes if not halloween entirely? if free speech means i have to accept white ppl dressing as indians then i dont want it

[Dogfighter28]

show slunken some respect

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Dogfighter28

show slunken some respect

why?

[redbreegull]

Salon – My trigger-warning disaster: “9 1/2 Weeks,” “The Wire” and how coddled young radicals got discomfort all wrong

interesting piece by a non-white female liberal arts prof who feels essentially that students actively create their own censorship of things they don't want to be exposed to or challenged over in the classroom b/c of current attitudes on social justice and identity politics. I have seen several articles like this published in the last year or so, but always by white male teachers previously. I'm not prepared to weigh in on everything she says, but she does raise some good points... at the risk of being called a racist or something, I do believe there is an active and mostly non-self-aware effort to censor public discourse by young liberal people.

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by Poots

That's a great article. How frustrating to teach a class like that. The best part was that she seemed to have someone crying and running out of the room in every class and she would just go ahead and show the next offensive movie.

and then I freak out when I say something meant to be even handed and the people who agree are always the ones already shown to have a propensity towards saying insensitive things and being socially unaware. My problems with identity politics-obsessed liberal people are not an endorsement of your latent racism :/

[redbreegull]

it's funny cause we all watched this happen to conservatives over the last 8 years, as they slowly insulate themselves more and more, retreat further inside their echo chambers and become more out of touch with people who think differently than themselves. Then they act in ways which seem far more extreme and crazy than before because they have been incubating in their own juices. They've built themselves "safe spaces" where they don't have to be challenged by things that make them uncomfortable.

Then it starts happening in liberal bastions and liberal people are totally unaware

[duovamp]

It's problematic though because it immediately stops any discussion and it can be applied limitlessly.

[vixnix]

can we just blow them up?

[vixnix]

where are the parents of these entitled little dillholes, and how did they get it so, so wrong

[vixnix]

It's this thing:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...ism-says-study

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by duovamp

It's problematic though because it immediately stops any discussion and it can be applied limitlessly.

recently at University of Maryland there was a huge blowout because the school was going to screen American Sniper. There was enormous backlash that it would be inappropriate for the school to show the film (which I haven't seen), because it portrays Muslims and Arab people in a denigrating light. Then there were petitions, fb groups, and public outrage. Which of course was reflected back by a bunch of angry white bros who started actually saying racist shit and accusing their opponents of hating the US and this and that.

I have no idea if the movie was ever shown, but to me it seems the end result is that each group just gets to retreat farther inside their own preconceived morals and worldviews, and voices in the middle of the issue are ignored, and each side just paints them as being in cahoots with the oppressor, the other side.

[Trotskilicious]

by the way all this stuff happens on this board and ppl are cool w/ it like sarah caseys fucking witch hunt about telling someone on my facebook to go fuck themselves. you guys LOVED that. LOVED IT.

[vixnix]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

by the way all this stuff happens on this board and ppl are cool w/ it like sarah caseys fucking witch hunt about telling someone on my facebook to go fuck themselves. you guys LOVED that. LOVED IT.

yeah but in this instance, you were the one stifling free speech by deleting the comments.

But I agree, this place loves catastrophizing

[vixnix]

The funniest thing was how charms was total femmers and you guise went for it hook line and sinker and then she came back and was like oh nahh man, I'm over that, I'm gonna be a catholic now.

LOLS!!!!

Remember when she was totally adamant that porn was an expression of patriarchy but fashion and cosmetics weren't? Because women can use up brain space on what outfits to wear this season and whether to exfoliate 2 or 3 times a week, and whether to wash their faces with warm or cold water and still be regular humans just like guys. That's not us being objectified and managed at all. snort

[vixnix]

we like it! We like to dress up all girly! That's what women do, when we all hang out together. We put on makeup and get bikini waxes just for the fun of it, and then sit around talking.

ugh, idiots.

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/2e/2eae...69d8b41449.jpg

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by vixnix

yeah but in this instance, you were the one stifling free speech by deleting the comments.

But I agree, this place loves catastrophizing

free speech is specifically about the government you idiotic cunt