Dear 2016,

One protester was shot and is expected to survive, and it has been mentioned in every news article I have read and was also referenced in the press conference. Nice try.

Padawan braid would seem like the obvious guess.

Sadly these jackasses have appointed themselves arbiters of who is or is not a good Muslim. So they’ve basically declared every Muslim who doesn’t buy their murderous bullshit to be ‘as bad’ as any old western infidel, and worthy of death. Oh and if they accidentally murder someone innocent allah will fix it all in…

Actually, IS proclaimed at the beginning of Ramadan, that suicide bombers would score extra martyr points during this period :-(

I think at least some of it is elite schools vs. everywhere else. My students are mostly working and lower-middle class. I don’t have any of these problems.

I’m remembering a classmate who went on a very long “white people can’t have ethnic heritage” tirade and just wouldn’t accept that some white people do have a connection to a specific ethnic group. And a kind of chicken professor that just let her berate us.

I have been out of university for a while (and my grad degree was science-based, so nothing I can imagine being triggering there). So, my only observation of this discussion has been on the internet. As an outsider, my only concern is that the list of potential triggers seems to grow and grow, and “triggering” has…

Sometimes, on the other hand, an activist student can successfully engage the rest of the class in a lively and productive discussion—a situation that the instructor can facilitate, and in response to which the instructor will be profoundly grateful.

The problem is that it really doesn’t matter what you call it. The stigma will follow the term, kinda like the same way “Special Education” became “Exceptional Education” which became “Alternative Education”, and yet every “normal” kid magically seemed to know who the “slow kids” were and still abused them verbally…

It should but doesn’t always go without saying that, if you haven’t read something, you have no right to an opinion on its appropriateness for the classroom, particularly on the internet, where there is already so much noise

I would contend that at no point in history has the region been UN fucked up.

Is it me or at some point this year did the “I don’t agree with you so you MUST be a racist bigoted ——-” people turn into a caricatures of themselves. Where once we had a modest concern for their accusations now it’s just a hallmark of a logically flawed factually indefensible opinion from another completely…

Fuck off dude. Yes, we all know Gawker is (currently) owned by a liberal, but keep it in your pants. I know liberals around the world don’t have much to be happy about these days, but this is a place people come to get away from politics and focus on our shared passion.

Yeah, I generally enjoy Jalopnik and Raphael’s writing, but this tired-ass trope about the Brexit being all about racism is getting really fucking old. It’s lazy, sensationalist, and demeaning all in one neat bundle. I come to Jalopnik to read about cars, not to hear a tired straw man argument about international…

...the thing where old scared racist people in the UK want to keep brown people out of their country and think that ditching the shitshow that is the EU is going to help them with that.

How is this surprising? She has a British identical twin!!!

Wow, this might be the first time I have agreed with Zuck!

I am getting sick of the pile on to oust people from positions for disagreeing with them on some crap. Gawker acted as unquestionable dickheads to Thiel, He had every legal right to retaliate the way he did. And Gawker is a way more powerful voice than some…

That may be the dumbest possible comparison you could have made.

If you can’t parse out the false equivalence between raping a child and suing Gawker then I don’t know what to tell you.