In what way are money managers and stock pickers not a bunch of motherfuckers?

I didn’t mention it, but it should also be noted that safe spaces are necessary for students who come from a more privileged background as well. To approach any field or subject as if completely removed from compassion and the human experience, and to talk only in theoretical terms limits intellectual growth. All…

A black student’s entire college experiences is justifying their presence to a bunch of “well meaning” white kids like yourself. It’s not our job to teach you. I’m glad you were able to grow, but it shouldn’t be at our expense. We need spaces where you’re not to talk about how demoralizing it is to have to explain to…

I understand and respect your opinion (perhaps affirmative action was the wrong example to use). My point is that I see safe spaces as a way to facilitate conversation, but they seem to have evolved into a place where people are too afraid to say anything. “Well meaning” kids (like myself) often have no frame of…

Couldn’t you equally say the way to handle someone writing Trump in chalk is to ignore it, not ban it?

The conversation around trigger warnings and safe spaces reminds me of therapy animals – something that is incredibly helpful for the mental health of some individuals, but easily abused.

The problem is that people were “protesting” by preventing them from even speaking.

And safe spaces are places to be free from harassment. Harassment is not a difference of opinion.

I think trigger warnings should be defined as serving a medical purpose. Someone who has PTSD or other trauma-related conditions can be a better student if appropriate trigger warnings are in place.

True. But I’ve been faculty at an Ivy, at a top-25 private institution with an exceedingly wealthy student body, at a rural community college, and now at a four-year directional state institution that serves mostly rural students. So, many assumptions based on experience.

Safe spaces and trigger warnings are basically for people who aren’t ready to function in the real world.

I’m literally as Left as you can get—call me Communist, fine—but safe-spaces and trigger-warnings are the most fucked up, anti-intellectual, anti-liberal things I’ve ever heard of. George Orwell couldn’t have come up with better fascist props in his dystopian writing.

That’s why every class has a syllabus and why the first week of class exists. If you have PTSD and somehow end up taking a class that deals with violent imagery, a quick look over your syllabus and an internet search of the texts involved should help you know if what you’re getting into could be harmful. Most schools…

Yeah. People who use the concept of being triggered to their own benefit for things that they don’t want to do kind of pisses me off. I am more than willing to be respectful and accommodate people’s triggers because I know where they’re coming from. But, people who just crying wolf with triggers are making it hard for…

If trigger warnings and safe space operated like you define them, I’d agree with you, but in practice my eyes tell me otherwise, no matter how much anyone tries to explain. Try Googling for 2 minutes.

The World Doesn’t Give Fuck One About My Feelings - a novel by me.

Yeah, trigger warnings have been overused to the point of meaninglessness. When everything requires a trigger warning, nothing requires a trigger warning, you know?

Well, my vaguely-informed opinion is that the concept of “safe space” has morphed from, say the LBGTQ student center, to encompass the entire campus and university in general. That the university experience should be a safe space free from harassment, micro aggressions, rape etc. And of course the university should…

Only if you disregard the fact that students are on equal footing to disagree or agree in an academic setting.

oh, millenials are going to "fix" things. can't wait for that.