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Now college kids collapse at the mention of the word ‘Trump’

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Now college kids collapse at the mention of the word ‘Trump’ | New York Post

As if today’s college students didn’t already face enough horrors, now the poor kids have to deal with the most gruesome microaggression of all: the T-word.

Trump.

Yes, hatemongers use the name of the Republican presidential front-runner on campus. Emory University students have even seen “Trump” chalked on sidewalks!

The college leaped into action, offering “emergency counseling sessions” as President James Wagner vowed to track down the heartless graffiti-scrawler.

Academia has come to this — children who can’t bear to share the same ZIP code with anyone who sees the world differently.

Trump’s platform is full of “dangerous intolerance,” they explained — as if there’s nothing intolerant about banning a political rally, or mobilizing mobs against it.

Yes, intolerance is running amok on campus — thanks to the scholarly goons who claim to oppose it.
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Don't feel safe because of what? Fear of chalk?

This is the result of coddling and sheltering your kids from the real world. The social justice warriors are destroying this country's future.
 
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Crovax said:
Being right or wrong on a subject is different than choosing what subjects to cover.
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Yes. For example, the OP's article neglected to cover the subject of students receiving death threats.
 
Deuce said:
Yes. For example, the OP's article neglected to cover the subject of students receiving death threats.
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Wait, in this overblown story, college kids received death threats from chalk? Cause death threats to students would be way different than freaking out about chalk on the ground.
 
JoeTrumps said:
This is the result of coddling and sheltering your kids from the real world. The social justice warriors are destroying this country's future.
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Amazing how the exact same generation that damn near riots for cultural tolerance can be so damn intolerant of anything that deviates from their brand of thinking. How liberal.
 
JoeTrumps said:
This is the result of coddling and sheltering your kids from the real world. The social justice warriors are destroying this country's future.
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1 - Some college kids chalk up a campus in the dead of night
2 - Some other college kids, a tiny fraction (up to 50, out of over 2000 black and Hispanic students at Emory) whinge and complain about it to the school administration, harming no-one but themselves
3 - Conservatives and a handful of old crackpots show their maturity and intelligence by whinging and complaining about that in national media outlets and multiple threads in international discussion forums

No irony here of course :lol:
 
Deuce said:
Yes. For example, the OP's article neglected to cover the subject of students receiving death threats.
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Not students, one student, and he just claimed he did he didn't show evidence of the threats.
 
Truckstop said:
Wait, in this overblown story, college kids received death threats from chalk? Cause death threats to students would be way different than freaking out about chalk on the ground.
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...the chalk wasn't the death threat, no.

Crovax said:
Not students, one student, and he just claimed he did he didn't show evidence of the threats.
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And yet not worth a mention by right-wing sources. Wouldn't want to give context to students who may have sought counseling.

Did you notice there wasn't any evidence of anybody "collapsing" either? Or even seeking "emergency counseling?"
 
Deuce said:
...the chalk wasn't the death threat, no.



And yet not worth a mention by right-wing sources. Wouldn't want to give context to students who may have sought counseling.

Did you notice there wasn't any evidence of anybody "collapsing" either? Or even seeking "emergency counseling?"
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Bill Maher...right wing? :roll:

There is NO NEWS when one student with no evidence "claims" to have gotten a death threat. :doh

Are you so committed to an idea that people have a right to be free from being offended that you actually support the ideas raised by these students? That the mere chalking of Trump's name is the equivalent of a threat to their security and psyche?
 
Captain Adverse said:
Bill Maher...right wing? :roll:
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Did not suggest that. Thread is context, dude.

There is NO NEWS when one student with no evidence "claims" to have gotten a death threat. :doh
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There's no evidence of a lot of things.

Are you so committed to an idea that people have a right to be free from being offended that you actually support the ideas raised by these students? That the mere chalking of Trump's name is the equivalent of a threat to their security and psyche?
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What the **** are you talking about? Not one sentence in this paragraph is even remotely related to anything I've said.
 
We are no longer the Knights Who Say "Ni". We are now the Knights Who Say Trump!
 
Fiddytree said:
We are no longer the Knights Who Say "Ni". We are now the Knights Who Say Trump!
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It is important though to know what actually happened. Emory Students Traumatized by Trump Graffiti? : snopes.com

Long story short: a bunch of Trump graffiti was a found on campus, a handful of students protested against Trump...and then the media got hold of it and spun it out of control. And the funny thing is, almost no one will bother to do a basic fact check, and a lot of people will assume the OP is true, and be outraged...over nothing, as so often happens.
 
Redress said:
It is important though to know what actually happened. Emory Students Traumatized by Trump Graffiti? : snopes.com

Long story short: a bunch of Trump graffiti was a found on campus, a handful of students protested against Trump...and then the media got hold of it and spun it out of control. And the funny thing is, almost no one will bother to do a basic fact check, and a lot of people will assume the OP is true, and be outraged...over nothing, as so often happens.
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So what facts did you find that we are missing?

From the articles I saw on various sites, about 40 students protested outside the Administration building chanting they felt unsafe and offended by the chalked name of Trump on campus. That the University President and the Student Government Organization responded with a written "we feel your pain and will try to help heal you" response. That the student's aren't satisfied with it and think more should be done.

What's missing?

Edit: I posted before seeing your last response.

Here's from the Daily News:

About 40 students at the private school gathered to chant the words "frustration" and "fear" because somebody chalked about the inescapable GOP presidential front-runner whose name is brandished on skyscrapers worldwide — and who won Georgia's own primary.

“I’m supposed to feel comfortable and safe,” an unidentified student told the Emory Wheel.

“But this man is being supported by students on our campus and our administration shows that they, by their silence, support it as well…I don’t deserve to feel afraid at my school.”
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http://businessnewsusa.org/news/nat...-protest-donald-trump-chalk-article-1.2574972

Here's from the New York Times:

The graffiti sparked a protest this week by students who said the messages left them frightened and concerned. One student, 19-year-old Jonathan Peraza, said he received death threats following the protest.

A Thursday statement from Emory spokeswoman Elaine Justice said the university hasn't identified who left the messages "and no follow-up action is planned related to the incident."
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/03/24/us/ap-us-campaign-2016-trump-emory-students.html?_r=0

So there was some "fear."
 
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So there was some "fear."
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Leaving aside the question of whether minority students at a university in Georgia should or should not feel "fear" when slogans like "Accept the inevitable; Trump 2016" are scrawled around their dormitory in the dead of night...


Are you actually suggesting that the expression of such anxieties by a tiny fraction (1 in 40 or less) of said minority students is worthy of national news, multiple threads on an international discussion forum and the various "wussified youth of America" and "destroying this country's future" laments they have provoked?


Not just a university's administration, but everyone in the country and world needs to hear the pain and fears of the earlier generations bemoaning these woeful youths of today :lol:
 
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Mithrae said:
Leaving aside the question of whether minority students at a university in Georgia should or should not feel "fear" when slogans like "Accept the inevitable; Trump 2016" are scrawled around their dormitory in the dead of night...


Are you actually suggesting that the expression of such anxieties by a tiny fraction (1 in 40 or less) of said minority students is worthy of national news, multiple threads on an international discussion forum and the various "wussified youth of America" and "destroying this country's future" laments they have provoked?


Not just a university's administration, but everyone in the country and world needs to hear the pain and fears of the earlier generations bemoaning these woeful youths of today :lol:
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Funny. By your "logic" the following stories would also be unworthy of note since they only involved one individual out of hundreds or thousands involved in "more important" incidents in the world each day:

Man Sucker Punched at Trump Rally. Video: Trump protester sucker-punched at rally in North Carolina

Muslim Woman Removed From Trump Rally. Woman Removed From Donald Trump Rally Wanted To Show 'Muslims Are Not That Scary'

Missouri Activists Block Journalist. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/u...ers-block-journalists-press-freedom.html?_r=0

The list goes on and on.

So...it is news because it was presented as news. It is therefore a valid issue of debate here in the forum.
 
Captain Adverse said:
Funny. By your "logic" the following stories would also be unworthy of note since they only involved one individual out of hundreds or thousands involved in "more important" incidents in the world each day:

Man Sucker Punched at Trump Rally. Video: Trump protester sucker-punched at rally in North Carolina

Muslim Woman Removed From Trump Rally. Woman Removed From Donald Trump Rally Wanted To Show 'Muslims Are Not That Scary'

Missouri Activists Block Journalist. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/u...ers-block-journalists-press-freedom.html?_r=0

The list goes on and on.

So...it is news because it was presented as news. It is therefore a valid issue of debate here in the forum.
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I'd say that all of those examples also would not warrant multiple threads of hysterical... let's say exaggerated sweeping generalizations about the group/s of which the protagonists are a tiny sample. A point which you avoided commenting on, of course.

Not to mention the irony in so many people - professing themselves to be more mature than college kids going to their uni's admins over clandestine political graffiti - complaining on an international scale about what terrible trends/consequences they feel these few kids' peaceful actions forebode. I suppose such complaints must suddenly become okay when they are couched in terms of attacking some particular group, those wussy youths, rather than more honestly expressing the feelings prompted by differences within society.

These attitudes make me feel sad :(
 
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