Should college administrations establish "safe areas" for "students of color"?

[Ahlevah]

Are you ****ing kidding me? These students don't need safe areas. Besides being quarantined from liberal professors, they need shrinks to wean their "marginalized identities" away from from their emotional security blankets and pacifiers:

In the wake of last week’s protests and resignations at Claremont McKenna College (CMC), “safe spaces” for students of marginalized identities are popping up all over the campuses of the Claremont Colleges. After protestors called for action, CMC President Hiram Chodosh stated his commitment to providing a permanent safe space for students of color in the near future. Until then, the Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College (ASCMC) have dedicated part of their office as a safe space for these students. Safe spaces for minority students have appeared on the campuses of other Claremont Colleges as well. Last week, the Motley Coffeehouse at Scripps College issued a statement on its official Facebook page, “The Motley sitting room will be open tonight from 6-10 only for people of color and allies that they invite. Please feel free to come and use the space for whatever you need – decompress, discuss, grieve, plan, support each other, etc. In solidarity.”

SAFE SPACES SEGREGATE THE CLAREMONT COLLEGES

CMC STUDENTS FEEL MARGINALIZED, DEMAND RESOURCES AND RESIGNATIONS

Amid racial bias protests, Claremont McKenna dean resigns -- Los Angeles Times

 

[Ahlevah]

Re: Should college administrations establish "safe areas" for "students of color"?

Never saw a poll option, so just give your opinion.

 

[EdwinWillers]

Re: Should college administrations establish "safe areas" for "students of color"?

Are you ****ing kidding me? These students don't need safe areas. Besides being quarantined from liberal professors, they need shrinks to wean their "marginalized identities" away from from their emotional security blankets and pacifiers:

CMC STUDENTS FEEL MARGINALIZED, DEMAND RESOURCES AND RESIGNATIONS

Amid racial bias protests, Claremont McKenna dean resigns -- Los Angeles Times

Maybe we should give Claremont college a safe area protecting them from sane and rational society.

Edit: and sane and rational society from Claremont college

 

[DaveFagan]

Re: Should college administrations establish "safe areas" for "students of color"?

Safe zones unnecessary and ridiculous.

 

[Captain Adverse]

Re: Should college administrations establish "safe areas" for "students of color"?

Outside of a psychiatrist's, psychologist's, or other counselor's office? The whole idea is INSANE!

It is complete and utter childishness...an attempt to avoid reality.

It is also a violation of everyone's individual right to free expression.

I wonder what these overly sensitive individuals are going to do when they leave the "safety" of university and have to deal with REAL life?

 

[OrphanSlug]

Re: Should college administrations establish "safe areas" for "students of color"?

No! (what else needs to be said?)

 

[MrPeanut]

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Why can't they just create a club or something? This is such a bogus idea.

 

[Ahlevah]

Re: Should college administrations establish "safe areas" for "students of color"?

Outside of a psychiatrist's, psychologist's, or other counselor's office? The whole idea is INSANE!

It is complete and utter childishness...an attempt to avoid reality.

It is also a violation of everyone's individual right to free expression.

This all came to a head after a picture surfaced on Facebook of two students dressed as Mariachis during Halloween:



Get a grip, people! They're costumes! If Hispanic students want to dress up in Lederhosen as members of an Oom-pah band they should have the right to do that without having to issue an apology or face sanctions from the college.

 

[DaveFagan]

Re: Should college administrations establish "safe areas" for "students of color"?

Are you ****ing kidding me? These students don't need safe areas. Besides being quarantined from liberal professors, they need shrinks to wean their "marginalized identities" away from from their emotional security blankets and pacifiers:



CMC STUDENTS FEEL MARGINALIZED, DEMAND RESOURCES AND RESIGNATIONS

Amid racial bias protests, Claremont McKenna dean resigns -- Los Angeles Times

Yo Bubba, this Claremont sounds like it's working from the script of "Dumb and Dumber."

 

[Ahlevah]

Re: Should college administrations establish "safe areas" for "students of color"?

Why can't they just create a club or something? This is such a bogus idea.

They have. Let's see.... Among others, there are the Asian Pacific American Mentoring Program; the Black Student Affairs House; Brothers and Sisters Alliance; CMCers of Color; Chicano Latino Student Affairs (CLSA) Sponsors; the Middle Eastern Cultural Club; Mishpacha; the Pan-Asian Community of CMC; the Queer, Questioning & Allied Mentor Program; and the Sexuality and Gender Alliance. So it's not as though "marginalized" students don't have crying towels or support.

https://www.cmc.edu/dean-of-students/sao/student-clubs-and-organizations#list

https://www.cmc.edu/dean-of-students/newstudent

 

[justabubba]

Re: Should college administrations establish "safe areas" for "students of color"?

another 'solution' in search of a problem

 

[AliHajiSheik]

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I would think the last they would want is to be segregated. I hope the safe area isn't in the "back of the bus."

 

[Ahlevah]

Re: Should college administrations establish "safe areas" for "students of color"?

Yo Bubba, this Claremont sounds like it's working from the script of "Dumb and Dumber."

Funny you mentioned that. The rally in this video reminds me of Gilbert's speech and the conclusion of Revenge of the Nerds.

CMCers of Color Lead Protest of Lack of Support from Administration

ROTN Ending and Moral

Just run the Asian chick's and Gilbert's speeches simultaneously and you'll see what I mean.

 

[azgreg]

Re: Should college administrations establish "safe areas" for "students of color"?

No! (what else needs to be said?)

Stop rambling and just answer the question will you.

 

[Owl King]

Re: Should college administrations establish "safe areas" for "students of color"?

Safe zones? No. How about they grow a pair and act like adults instead of whiny little vaginas.

 

[Skeptic Bob]

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Bad idea.

 

[Beaudreaux]

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Let's see... No.

 

[Owl King]

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I like how they whine about wanting safe zones for their itty bitty feelings, and then turn around and burst into a library, disrupt students trying to study, and hurl racial slurs at them.

No one takes these imbeciles seriously. Life is going to dropkick them in the face when they get out into the real world and realize the victimhood card doesn't fly.

 

[Ahlevah]

Re: Should college administrations establish "safe areas" for "students of color"?

I like how they whine about wanting safe zones for their itty bitty feelings, and then turn around and burst into a library, disrupt students trying to study, and hurl racial slurs at them.

In the YouTube video I linked earlier, the CMC president is standing before students who proceed to engage in a verbal mugging. I mean, they are so disrespectful I don't know whether to admire him for taking it or just brand him as a spineless weakling. It's really painful to watch.

No one takes these imbeciles seriously.

Alas, if only that were true:

You might also wonder at the alacrity with which grownups, nominally in charge on campus, are surrendering to student demands for the firing of administrators who give even the slightest offense, however inadvertently. At Claremont College, Dean of Students Mary Spellman resigned after being attacked for her language in reaching out sympathetically to a student who wrote critically about her experiences as a minority on campus:

“Thank you for writing and sharing this article with me,” the dean wrote in an email to the student. “We have a lot to do as a college and a community. Would you be willing to talk to me about these issues? They are important to me and the DOS staff.” So far so good, I think. But the former Dean Spellman made the mistake of concluding. “(W)e are working on how we can better serve students, especially those that don’t fit our CMC mold.”

These three unintentionally offensive words, “Our CMC mold,” cost Mary Spellman her job.

The Rise of Authoritarian Campus Protestors

Life is going to dropkick them in the face when they get out into the real world and realize the victimhood card doesn't fly.

You're spot on on that one. Superiors are only interested in one thing: results. And they hate whiners who engage in the blame game, especially ones who play the race card to cover up their own failings.

 

[Dibbler]

Re: Should college administrations establish "safe areas" for "students of color"?

What's wrong with 'safe spaces for solidarity and intentional healing' ?

Good idea.

 

[Ahlevah]

Re: Should college administrations establish "safe areas" for "students of color"?

What's wrong with 'safe spaces for solidarity and intentional healing' ?

Good idea.

You mean like a private, "Whites Only" country club and spa?

 

[eohrnberger]

Re: Should college administrations establish "safe areas" for "students of color"?

Are you ****ing kidding me? These students don't need safe areas. Besides being quarantined from liberal professors, they need shrinks to wean their "marginalized identities" away from from their emotional security blankets and pacifiers:



CMC STUDENTS FEEL MARGINALIZED, DEMAND RESOURCES AND RESIGNATIONS

Amid racial bias protests, Claremont McKenna dean resigns -- Los Angeles Times

The academia defined bubble that is the university just too much for them?
They need yet a safer space?

Yeah, they'll do well in the reality of the real world.

 

[Dibbler]

Re: Should college administrations establish "safe areas" for "students of color"?

You mean like a private, "Whites Only" country club and spa?

I've got no problem with that either. People are free to choose who they associate with. However, comparing freely associating in private clubs is different from a college setting up a time...6-10 in an on campus coffee room for what will basically be a caffeinated venting session.

Get it ?

 

[nota bene]

Re: Should college administrations establish "safe areas" for "students of color"?

What's wrong with 'safe spaces for solidarity and intentional healing' ?

Good idea.

Self-segregation?

Bad idea.

 

[nota bene]

Re: Should college administrations establish "safe areas" for "students of color"?

The academia defined bubble that is the university just too much for them?
They need yet a safer space?

Yeah, they'll do well in the reality of the real world.

Won't they, though? Boy, are they going to be surprised when they whine continually to their coworkers and bosses.