You can SHOVE your ‘safe spaces’ and ‘trigger warnings’!! – U of Chicago to students

The University of Chicago has joined the small number of higher education institutions trying to put a stop to the liberal coddling of students, and they’re getting a lot of backlash for it.

Here’s Kimberly Guilfoyle reporting on it:

From the New York Times:

The anodyne welcome letter to incoming freshmen is a college staple, but this week the University of Chicago took a different approach: It sent new students a blunt statement opposing some hallmarks of campus political correctness, drawing thousands of impassioned responses, for and against, as it caromed around cyberspace.

“Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called trigger warnings, we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual ‘safe spaces’ where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own,” John Ellison, dean of students, wrote to members of the class of 2020, who will arrive next month.

It was a not-so-veiled rebuke to the protests calling for limits on what kinds of speech should be condoned on campus, and who should be allowed to speak, that have rocked Yale, Wesleyan, Oberlin and many other colleges and universities in recent years. Some alumni, dismayed by the trend, have withheld donations from their alma maters.

For those who don’t know, “safe spaces” are spaces set up by members of “oppressed” groups where they can behave whatever way they want without criticism from white, straight, and/or gendered persons. So it’s kinda like reverse segregation! Yay!! “Trigger warnings” are used to warn people of any myriad of supposedly sensitive topics, but they can range from the reasonable “explicit language” to the utterly idiotic warnings about gender or heterosexual norms and other hyper-sensitive idiocies.

Thank goodness that some universities and colleges are actually sticking to the philosophically liberal traditions of open speech instead of giving in to the politically liberal doctrines of Orwellian thought control.


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