Teh One Who Knocks
09-26-2016, 12:42 PM
By Emily Zanotti - Heat Street
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Students from the University of Kansas’ Young America’s Foundation just learned the hard way that those who advocate for “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings” for themselves aren’t as courteous about other people’s feelings.
Thursday night, the University of Kansas YAF asked students who supported “safe spaces” to debate the topic, politely, with several young conservative KU YAF members. The event, called “Stand with Me” was in response to a video (and poem!) posted by transgender student Micha Cox, who claimed to have been harassed and berated as she was walking across campus.
YAF had anticipated some protests, but what they got was a complete meltdown, clearly inspired by Trigglypuff. A group of social justice warriors invaded the meeting, screaming obscenities, verbally abusing the YAF students, calling them “racist” and “white supremacist,” lecturing students about their “white privilege” and even berating the students for holding the event.
This video is a half an hour long, but really gets interesting around the 15 minute mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTe1Aqzp8aQ
Campus Reform edited the video to give readers some of the highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NZVknySeE4
Apparently, the anger began over a quote from conservative provocateur Ben Shapiro that KU YAF posted on Facebook: “facts don’t care about your feelings.”
At the meeting’s most volatile point, an African-American female student — believed to be student Trinity Carpenter — can be seen screaming at the YAF students about “institutional racism,” accusing them of spreading “hatred,” and blames them for benefiting from the practice of slavery.
She then forcefully implies that all of civilization is a white social construct designed to oppress her, specifically, and accuses a YAF member who stops interacting with her of exhibiting “white fragility.”
“Trans activists” off camera also berate and swear at the YAF students for using incorrect pronouns, demanding that they use “they, them, or their” to address students whose gender is not readily apparent.
Later, when the use of safe spaces is questioned, one of the SJWs completely unravels. “I am not retreating! I’m making myself safe and comfortable,” he or she says while crying and pounding his or her fists on the table in a tantrum. “If I want this space, I can have this space! It’s my right to have this space!”
When one KU YAF member uses the phrases “you guys,” the whole room is triggered: “Do not call us guys! That is a micro aggression!”
The conversation only devolves from there. One SJW declares that he or she will “tear this motherf***ing school up on a daily motherf****ing basis” until his or her demands for safe spaces are met.
According to a statement from Young America’s Foundation, despite the craziness, KU’s YAF hopes to continue the discussion with campus social justice warriors, in pursuit of a more favorable result, or at least fewer abuses from a less noisome collection of “peace activists.”
http://i.imgur.com/7vc2zXSh.jpg
Students from the University of Kansas’ Young America’s Foundation just learned the hard way that those who advocate for “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings” for themselves aren’t as courteous about other people’s feelings.
Thursday night, the University of Kansas YAF asked students who supported “safe spaces” to debate the topic, politely, with several young conservative KU YAF members. The event, called “Stand with Me” was in response to a video (and poem!) posted by transgender student Micha Cox, who claimed to have been harassed and berated as she was walking across campus.
YAF had anticipated some protests, but what they got was a complete meltdown, clearly inspired by Trigglypuff. A group of social justice warriors invaded the meeting, screaming obscenities, verbally abusing the YAF students, calling them “racist” and “white supremacist,” lecturing students about their “white privilege” and even berating the students for holding the event.
This video is a half an hour long, but really gets interesting around the 15 minute mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTe1Aqzp8aQ
Campus Reform edited the video to give readers some of the highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NZVknySeE4
Apparently, the anger began over a quote from conservative provocateur Ben Shapiro that KU YAF posted on Facebook: “facts don’t care about your feelings.”
At the meeting’s most volatile point, an African-American female student — believed to be student Trinity Carpenter — can be seen screaming at the YAF students about “institutional racism,” accusing them of spreading “hatred,” and blames them for benefiting from the practice of slavery.
She then forcefully implies that all of civilization is a white social construct designed to oppress her, specifically, and accuses a YAF member who stops interacting with her of exhibiting “white fragility.”
“Trans activists” off camera also berate and swear at the YAF students for using incorrect pronouns, demanding that they use “they, them, or their” to address students whose gender is not readily apparent.
Later, when the use of safe spaces is questioned, one of the SJWs completely unravels. “I am not retreating! I’m making myself safe and comfortable,” he or she says while crying and pounding his or her fists on the table in a tantrum. “If I want this space, I can have this space! It’s my right to have this space!”
When one KU YAF member uses the phrases “you guys,” the whole room is triggered: “Do not call us guys! That is a micro aggression!”
The conversation only devolves from there. One SJW declares that he or she will “tear this motherf***ing school up on a daily motherf****ing basis” until his or her demands for safe spaces are met.
According to a statement from Young America’s Foundation, despite the craziness, KU’s YAF hopes to continue the discussion with campus social justice warriors, in pursuit of a more favorable result, or at least fewer abuses from a less noisome collection of “peace activists.”