Political Correctness thread

[connor_in]

I created this PC thread for examples and discussion of PC as opposed to straight political discussions found in the Politics thread.

Tonight I found this one and cannot believe the student reactions. I am 47 years old and feel like I am having the reactions 80 year olds had back when I was in college at the start of PC in the 1980's.

Pitt Students 'In Tears' and Feeling 'Unsafe' After Milo Yiannopoulos Event - Breitbart

The University of Pittsburgh’s Student Government Board held a public meeting on Tuesday to discuss the traumatizing visit the night before from “dangerous” homosexual and Breitbart Tech Editor Milo Yiannopoulos, during which students described themselves as feeling “hurt” and “unsafe.”

“During his talk, Yiannopoulos called students who believe in a gender wage gap ‘idiots,’ declared the Black Lives Matter movement a ‘supremacy’ group, while feminists are ‘man-haters,’” according to the student paper The Pitt News, prompting a handful of twenty-something-year olds to feel upset.

“Just because we have to be neutral with our funding doesn’t mean we’re personally neutral,” announced board member Jack Heidecker at the meeting. “I hurt yesterday, too.”

“So many of us shared in our pain. I felt I was in danger, and I felt so many people in that room were in danger,” proclaimed Marcus Robinson, student and president of the Pittsburgh Rainbow Alliance. Robinson also suggested that councilors should have been provided in another room to protect students who felt “traumatized” by Yiannopoulos’s opinions.

“This is more than hurt feelings, this is about real violence. We know that the violence against marginalized groups happens every day in this country,” claimed social work and urban studies major Claire Matway. “That so many people walked out of that [event] feeling in literal physical danger is not alright.”

The reactions of students over a non-compulsory and extracurricular event featuring a gay journalist expressing a difference of opinion are a worrying sign that academia is failing. These are students who are legal adults and on the cusp of entering the real world, yet they’re in tears over the fact that someone, who they need not even listen to, disagreed with them.

University is no longer a place for new ideas, discussion, and intellectual debate. It is a place of safe spaces, no platforming, and trigger warnings. Students are taught to believe and agree with a single narrative and doctrine, turning them into narrow-minded and unchallenged pawns, with any form of resistance or difference of thought being classified as hate speech.

Pittsburgh may be the steel city, but it appears its students are made of softer stuff.

 

[NDVirginia19]

Milo is coming to ND in a couple weeks, and I'm looking forward to it. I don't agree with him exactly politically, but I love how upset he makes liberals

 

[IrishLax]

Yeah, similar crap has happened with him at other schools. It's an embarrassment how soft minded some college liberals are... instead of trying to factually combat ideas they disagree with the default response is to feign "trauma" and curl up into a little ball playing the "victim."

I lean left on most issues, but I cannot stand this crop of losers who have no mental toughness... and I also can't stand the academics that enable them.

 

[Irish#1]

So they feared for their safety because a guy was giving a speech? The woosification of America is complete.

 

[kmoose]

“This is more than hurt feelings, this is about real violence. We know that the violence against marginalized groups happens every day in this country,” claimed social work and urban studies major Claire Matway. “That so many people walked out of that [event] feeling in literal physical danger is not alright.”

I wonder if some people have ever stopped to consider that maybe they are marginalized not because of their sexual orientation, or their skin color, or their religion, or their politics......... but because they cringe in fear from some nebulous "bogeyman" hiding around every corner, and society just doesn't have time to hold their hand, or dry their tears, every minute of every single day?

 

[connor_in]

The wild part is they complain about violence against marginalized groups while fearing a gay republican. You gotta figure a gay republican is a kinda small group too, eh?

 

[GoldenDomer]

Milo is hilarious.

 

[NDPhilly]

I love Milo. College Republicans of Fordham have been trying to get him here for a couple of months.

 

[GATTACA!]

Milo is hilarious. Joe Rogan had him on his podcast a couple months ago. Certainly an interesting listen.

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[NDRock]

I'm just hoping that the guys who said they felt "hurt" and were in "pain" were just doing it to get some sympathy pussy. Surely it's all an angle to get laid, right?

 

[Wild Bill]

I'm just hoping that the guys who said they felt "hurt" and were in "pain" were just doing it to get some sympathy pussy. Surely it's all an angle to get laid, right?

No chance.

Male feminists are male feminists bc they don't get laid.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Yeah, similar crap has happened with him at other schools. It's an embarrassment how soft minded some college liberals are... instead of trying to factually combat ideas they disagree with the default response is to feign "trauma" and curl up into a little ball playing the "victim."

I lean left on most issues, but I cannot stand this crop of losers who have no mental toughness... and I also can't stand the academics that enable them.

 

[greyhammer90]

Breaking news: "Vocal college minorities invited to speak publicly sound whiny."

The article has three cherry picked quotes total, one from a student government shill being PC, one from the President of the Pittsburgh Rainbow Warriors Friendship Fun-Time club, and one from social work major. I get being pissed off that these people sound like such pansies, but to quote Bill Burr on the Duck Dynasty guys being homophobic, "What did you think they thought?!"

 

[Wild Bill]

Breaking news: "Vocal college minorities invited to speak publicly sound whiny."

The article has three cherry picked quotes total, one from a student government shill being PC, one from the President of the Pittsburgh Rainbow Warriors Friendship Fun-Time club, and one from social work major. I get being pissed off that these people sound like such pansies, but to quote Bill Burr on the Duck Dynasty guys being homophobic, "What did you think they thought?!"

You're correct. But attention should still be paid to the ridiculousness of their behavior. These are the type of people that try to shape policies and laws based on their feelings.

 

[connor_in]

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[GowerND11]

Going to college is supposed to be about growth. You grow as a person. Your knowledge increases. You see, do, and try new things that you never would have done before. You will learn that you don't like some of these. You will learn you like others. When you disagree, that's fine, but stop making everyone feel like we need this sheltered place for our college kids to feel safe. This isn't GOD DAMN preschool. You are an adult, and you don't need protection.

 

[connor_in]

Tina Fey Calls Out The Oscars for Political Correctness, Liberal 'Hollywood Bullshit' - Hit & Run : Reason.com

 

[connor_in]

Jerry Seinfeld: College students don't know what the hell they're talking about | EW.com

This story got a lot of play when it came out last year too

 

[ACamp1900]

Tina Fey and Jerry Seinfeld are not the poster children for conservative thought either... Fey especially... somewhat surprising.

 

[ACamp1900]

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I love how serious a lot of them take themselves... you're talking to an insult comic guys...

 

[NorthDakota]

Tina Fey and Jerry Seinfeld are not the poster children for conservative thought either... Fey especially... somewhat surprising.

Thats what makes it even better. If it was a super conservative guy, people would probably just think he/she is whining.

 

[Cackalacky]

Might as well change the title of this thread to "The Pinko Commie Liberal Bashing Only Thread"

 

[ACamp1900]

Might as well change the title of this thread to "The Pinko Commie Liberal Bashing Only Thread"

You get out of dis here thread, go on, git!!!... Pinky bastard....

 

[Black Irish]

Might as well change the title of this thread to "The Pinko Commie Liberal Bashing Only Thread"

Bring on the quotes and clips from conservatives whining about micro-aggressions and having their safe spaces violated by an opposing viewpoint to balance things out. I'll gladly laugh them out of the room, too.

 

[IrishLax]

Might as well change the title of this thread to "The Pinko Commie Liberal Bashing Only Thread"

At minimum, this thread should come with a trigger warning, amirite?

 

[NDgradstudent]

Milo is coming to ND in a couple weeks, and I'm looking forward to it. I don't agree with him exactly politically, but I love how upset he makes liberals

ND students tend to be more mature, in my experience. There are certainly fewer liberals and more conservatives than on the average campus (although the groups are about even in size, which says something about how liberal most campuses are) but they tend not to be as childish. Of course, there are exceptions; hopefully they don't embarrass themselves at this event.

 

[Cackalacky]

At minimum, this thread should come with a trigger warning, amirite?

LOL. For real... there will be copious amounts of microaggression, veiled racism, and minute sexism flowing through this thread. Needs a disclaimer IMO.

 

[Irish#1]

LOL. For real... there will be copious amounts of microaggression, veiled racism, and minute sexism flowing through this thread. Needs a disclaimer IMO.

Only if you take it that way. amirite?

 

[Irish#1]

I love how serious a lot of them take themselves... you're talking to an insult comic guys...

Some were smiling and stopped. Made me think they might have been told to keep a serious look on their faces?

 

[wizards8507]

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I really hope that was real. I'm almost crying.