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04-08-2016 , 11:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Oroku$aki
If certain Virginians had their way...
Specifically, the house and senate of the great commonwealth of Virginia. Were it not for the governor's veto, impressionable young 17-18 year-olds might be safe from the nightmare-inducing terror of Pulitzer-Prize winning literature.

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Her son Blake —who interned for Marco Rubio in the summer of 2013 and, according to his Twitter profile, now attends The University of Florida, where he will soon begin law school—told the Post in 2013 that reading the book at night for his senior Advanced Placement English class gave him night terrors.

“It was disgusting and gross,” Blake Murphy—then 17 or 18 years old—said at the time. “It was hard for me to handle. I gave up on it.”
This State Wants a Trigger Warning for Toni Morrison

Last edited by Trolly McTrollson; 04-08-2016 at 11:09 PM.
04-08-2016 , 11:05 PM
Lol, that's hilarious! Glad I finally convinced you guys. Was it the Obama thing?
04-08-2016 , 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
Chez, I know that posting literally every waking hour of the day is standard for you, but even by my high-volume standards, it's absurd.
Do you post while on speed?
04-08-2016 , 11:07 PM
Damn SJW liberals and their trigger warnings!!!

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In 2002, responding to local creationist protests about the inclusion of evolution in textbooks, the Cobb County School Board mandated that every single biology textbook in the district carry a label describing evolution as "a theory, not a fact." Represented by attorney Michael Manely and the Georgia ACLU, Jeffrey Selman and four other Cobb parents filed suit in federal court. The trial was held in the fall of 2004 in U.S. District Court, with Judge Clarence Cooper presiding.
http://www.nsta.org/about/pressroom....681&print=true

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Originally Posted by Oroku$aki
Do you post while on speed?
Excuse me, but Yr. Trolly does not need performance-enhancing drugs to maintain this high-octane level of quality posting, tyvm.
04-08-2016 , 11:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
Chez, I know that posting literally every waking hour of the day is standard for you, but even by my high-volume standards, it's absurd.
I am a big fan of the absurd but I really don't think a few posts on a forum qualifies.

I only ocassionally get into my stride and have to assume people are joking about drugs being required.
04-08-2016 , 11:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
Excuse me, but Yr. Trolly does not need performance-enhancing drugs to maintain this high-octane level of quality posting, tyvm.
But you could step up your blabber and teeth grinding game.
04-08-2016 , 11:27 PM
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Originally Posted by chezlaw
Maybe I like protestor more. Imo it should range from mild tutting all they way up to criminal acts depending on what is being protested. That's countered by various anti-protest measures and counter protests (all dependent on strength of feeling) that produces the anarchistic mess so vital for a functioning democracy.
I do love watching Parliament.
04-09-2016 , 12:03 AM
Can someone count what percentage of folds post are just "lol OBAMA said this platitude I win"
04-09-2016 , 06:01 AM
Last night I learned that if universities don't act as leftist institutions then David Duke will have to be at commencement.
04-09-2016 , 07:59 AM
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Originally Posted by DeadMoneyWalking
If anyone can find better coddling than Emory I'd love to hear it http://www.cbsnews.com/news/emory-un...halk-writings/ contains unsolicited video



I'm more worried about the Obama DOJ threatening universities who don't use a "preponderance of evidence standard" to railroad men accused of sexual assault. This is far more dangerous because no one knows the truth whereas quite a few people know how what goes on in administrative decisions. I think something has to give with higher education eventually so kudos to Carson for starting the dialogue.
That example has a snopes page.

Not to spoil the surprise but having a snopes page isn't a good sign it is an example you want to use

http://www.snopes.com/emory-students-trump-graffiti/

Spoiler:
about a dozen protested the administration's response. One person said they thought it was a symptom of a wider problem and felt less safe.

No counselling was offered or asked for. The term safe space was never used by anyone.
04-09-2016 , 08:08 AM
Foldn in the thread protecting free speech by suggesting you just shut the **** up and write a letter gtfo silly lefties this ain't a safe space where dissenting opinion is restricted.

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04-09-2016 , 08:13 AM



Damn lefties are allowed to talk about that crazy science mumbo jumbo all they want and we can't even disparage brown people anymore. When are middle age white guys gonna catch a break?
04-09-2016 , 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by uke_master
I'm a professor at a Canadian university. I spend every single day dealing with hundreds of students. And students are ridiculous and stupid in thousands of different ways. A lot of that is totally healthy; this is one of the times in their lives where they get to actually sit and think about issues and they try on new world views like clothes. It's a good process, a process that on average results in an improvement. Of all the ways I see students being stupid, I've actually seen basically zero of the kind of lol at liberal college kids examples that the MRAs just love to masterbate to. Yet somehow we are assured that young kids who are trying to fight racism and sometimes are marginally overzealous on that, well THAT is the one way we just need to make fun of them for! Stupid college kids!
Nonsense! PC liberal culture run amok on campus is absolutely the equivalent existential crisis facing our nation today as 400 years of pervasive systemic racism. The left has their stupid things, the right has their stupid things. Totally equal and opposite. I said good day sir!
04-09-2016 , 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by [Phill]
Foldn in the thread protecting free speech by suggesting you just shut the **** up and write a letter gtfo silly lefties this ain't a safe space where dissenting opinion is restricted.

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You have it backwards. It's the protesters who are often trying to shout over, interrupt and drown out speech. That's unreasonable. If the speaker welcomes it and there is a dialogue, that's great. If it's just chanting to prevent the speaker being heard, not so much.

I watched the latest protest on Clinton, and that's what happened. He welcomed their voices as long as he was allowed to respond. When they wouldn't let him respond, he objected to their interruptions.
04-09-2016 , 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by uke_master
Can someone count what percentage of folds post are just "lol OBAMA said this platitude I win"
Sounds like you disagree with him. Why?
04-09-2016 , 01:44 PM
That's great and all that the mere thought of a political protest rising to the point of a speech being temporarily interrupted sends you into a raging tizzy, but just note that there is absolutely no specificity here. Protesting things has been standard democratic practice for centuries. What on earth does this have to do specifically with this one specific way that college kids are sometimes silly?
04-09-2016 , 01:47 PM
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Originally Posted by FoldnDark
Sounds like you disagree with him. Why?
Just lol. Nobody here has disagreed with his platitude. We are just LOLing at you thinking that means you've won any of your loltastically bad points, such as the recent pearl clutching over people daring to protest something audibly. And thinking it is such a trump that you've added the "lol obama agrees with me guys!" into like half your posts ITT.
04-09-2016 , 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by uke_master
That's great and all that the mere thought of a political protest rising to the point of a speech being temporarily interrupted sends you into a raging tizzy, but just note that there is absolutely no specificity here. Protesting things has been standard democratic practice for centuries. What on earth does this have to do specifically with this one specific way that college kids are sometimes silly?
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Originally Posted by uke_master
Just lol. Nobody here has disagreed with his platitude. We are just LOLing at you thinking that means you've won any of your loltastically bad points, such as the recent pearl clutching over people daring to protest something audibly. And thinking it is such a trump that you've added the "lol obama agrees with me guys!" into like half your posts ITT.
Forgive me if I'm confused and think you disagree with Obama. I'm trying to defend his arguments and you're referring to them as mere platitudes.

Where did I say protesting audibly was a problem? It's when you're drowning out others it's a problem. And I just said I don't think it's a big deal if there is actually a dialogue. When a dialogue is not what you're after, I disagree with that. Obama and Bill Clinton agree, and they've said as much. Do you disagree?
04-09-2016 , 02:03 PM
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Originally Posted by FoldnDark
Forgive me if I'm confused and think you disagree with Obama. I'm trying to defend his arguments and you're referring to them as mere platitudes.
Oh well there is the problem. Let me fix your deep confusion (and please don't take this personally, we all know you were in a sick nearly comatose sleep deprived days long instareply state; nobody is going to be thinking straight through that). Nobody ITT that I saw at least is pushing back in any way at Obama's platitude that people shouldn't insulate themselves from different points of view. The entire focus is laughing at you for all the ludicrous extensions you have made beyond Obama's entirely reasonable comment.

Consider you are the one raving about the great problem that political protesters might dare interrupt a speaker and just how oh so wrong this. So we have no choice but to laugh at you for this, and laugh doubly hard when you just keep coming back to "Obama agrees with me guys!!!!!!"
04-09-2016 , 02:03 PM
FoldnRape's constant appeals to authority are fun
04-09-2016 , 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by sputnik3000
You should try it. My advise would be to not clench so hard in fear of posting something "incorrect" and just let it flow. Also listen to what Pinker says in the vid i posted and do some self reflection about the fears of not fitting in. It will do wonders i promise.
Why don't you do it, then? If other people just need Pinker's video to encourage themselves, and you already have watched the video, why aren't you already blowing people's hair back with open minded ace argumentation?
04-09-2016 , 02:20 PM
Well, I keep bringing Obama up because I respect and agree with him. Some of you seem to ardently disagree with me, yet you also claim to agree with him (platitudes notwithstanding). Maybe someone could bridge the gap and explain where you believe our opinions differ here.
04-09-2016 , 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by DeadMoneyWalking
I'm more worried about the Obama DOJ threatening universities who don't use a "preponderance of evidence standard" to railroad men accused of sexual assault. This is far more dangerous because no one knows the truth whereas quite a few people know how what goes on in administrative decisions. I think something has to give with higher education eventually so kudos to Carson for starting the dialogue.
DMW, dude, we all know that n-word story didn't actually happen to you because you didn't go to college, and let's just say I don't see you attending a lot of college graduations in your future.

So why do you care? Why can't you have the academics have their secular empirical colleges like they want, why do you need to constantly inject your politics into their lives?
04-09-2016 , 02:21 PM
I'll try to spell this out super clearly for you

Obama's single statement: everyone agrees
The wide range of bizarre and only tangentially related to Obama statments that Fold makes: not everyone agrees

Hence why "Obama agrees with me lol ur wrong" is so hilarious in every other post.
04-09-2016 , 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by uke_master
I'll try to spell this out super clearly for you

Obama's single statement: everyone agrees
The wide range of bizarre and only tangentially related to Obama statments that Fold makes: not everyone agrees

Hence why "Obama agrees with me lol ur wrong" is so hilarious in every other post.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that neither chezlaw or FoldN have actually watched that speech, read the transcript, etc. FoldN found that quote in one of his right wing websites doing the "EVEN THE LIBERAL OBAMA" thing and he's just spamming it. It's possible he hasn't even read the quote itself.

      
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