Campus Activists Weaponize ‘Safe Space’

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18 points·Oatseller··5 comments

Why do college students sound so childish? They expect university administrators to become the new parent, protecting them from the evil boogeymen of scary thoughts.

More so than childish. The behavior of those students sounds sociopathic. They are essentially bullying the photographer, but calling the photographer the aggressor. This is unreal. It really makes me wonder how often have these attacks been used?

I've been treated that way by police. Surrounded and backed into a corner - threatened with being beaten and having my camera broken if I "resisted arrest" by continuing to take photos - and held there with nowhere to move for over five minutes while the threats continued.

And this was for photos of the city skyline from across the water.

Groups like this (police and protestors) attract people who want to act like that. They'll find any reason, and they hope it gets ugly.

Watch out for that word "they". The students who were quoted sounded childish. Plenty of students don't sound that way. But maturity is boring. It doesn't sell. So those people don't get quoted.

The clue meter's reading zero...

(Credit where due: I stole that from Dilbert.)

These students are not actually thinking about what they're saying and doing. They're doing stuff that's somewhat clever tactics, and they're arguing with somewhat-plausible-sounding lines, but they clearly aren't thinking.

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