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    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzHamilton Nolan
    9/22/15 5:09pm

    All we need to solve our problems of systemic inequality is just the right kind of totalitarianism!

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Bokezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
      9/22/15 5:11pm

      The only way to right a wrong is to commit an even worse one!

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      zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      9/22/15 5:12pm

      If everyone would just listen to me and do what I say then I could solve this problem of them disagreeing with me!

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    ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeHamilton Nolan
    9/22/15 5:10pm

    I read stories like this and I weep for the future, then I remember about climate change killing us all and I feel better.

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      caekislove-caekingitup╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      9/22/15 5:15pm

      Since the universe will eventually suffer heat death, leaving nothing anywhere to remember us anyways, what’s the point?

      That’s why I work just hard enough not to get fired and then spend the rest of my time drinking, doing drugs and playing video games.

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Bokecaekislove-caekingitup
      9/22/15 5:24pm

      Now that’s a man with a plan.

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    Hip Brooklyn StereotypeHamilton Nolan
    9/22/15 5:14pm

    Let’s all just have a party at “The Pit” and settle our differences, shall we?

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      Cam/ronHip Brooklyn Stereotype
      9/22/15 5:21pm

      George Clinton will be there and “EVERYONE WILL GET LAID.”

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      Alex CHip Brooklyn Stereotype
      9/22/15 5:26pm

      It’s crazy how prophetic this film turned out. The scene in line where the woman, gay guy, and black guy are arguing over who should be able to cut in line based on who is most historically oppressed is the perfect metaphor for 2015.

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    Sean BrodyHamilton Nolan
    9/22/15 5:14pm

    “Debates can raise intense emotions, but that doesn’t mean that we should demand ideological conformity because people are made uncomfortable. As members of a university community, we always have the right to respond with our own opinions, but there is no right not to be offended.”

    FUCK YOU THERE’S NOT!

    Dude, do you even America?

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      RickisadorkSean Brody
      9/22/15 5:31pm
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      ReburnsABurningReturnsRickisadork
      9/22/15 5:33pm

      Normally I scoff at this meme but ... it seems legit in this context.

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    CaptainObviousXHamilton Nolan
    9/22/15 5:13pm

    I went to Wesleyan. The only part that surprised me was that this article didn’t come with a trigger warning.

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      nothinglikeadameCaptainObviousX
      9/22/15 5:23pm

      I now want pre-twigger warnings, since trigger warnings themselves trigger me.

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      KrugerrantCaptainObviousX
      9/22/15 5:25pm

      The original complaint letter is completely insane.

      That there is no right not to be offended may come as a surprise to some students who seem to confuse op-ed columns with a publication’s editorial stance.

      “The Argus’ publication of this opinion is a silent agreement with its content, and a silent agreement to the all too prevalent belief that black [and] brown people do not deserve a voice, and that we are not worthy of respect,” a student who signed the petition told the Argus.

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    PsonicPsunspotHamilton Nolan
    9/22/15 5:22pm

    When I was a student at a small, liberal arts college, I wrote a weekly op-ed column for our local paper.

    The week after Homecoming Weekend, I wrote a particularly scathing editorial about the fact that the members of one of our sportsball teams had wandered into one of the college’s dining halls while under the influence of considerable amounts of alcohol. This would not necessarily have been a huge deal except for the fact that, as it was Homecoming, the dining hall was full of alumni and alumnae—many with small children. In my piece, I called the sportsball players’ behavior inappropriate and unacceptable and argued that their lack of decorum reflected badly on their fellow students, the college, and themselves.

    The day after my piece was published, I received a personal phone call from our A.D. who told me that the situation was being investigated. (There was a consequence for the sportsball players; I don’t remember what it was.) I also received physical threats (I was told not to walk around campus alone at night or I’d “get it”) and lost several friendships because I was “unfair” to the sportsball players—even though it had been they, not I, who were drunk in public and behaving like assholes.

    So that’s my college newspaper story.

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      OurGIIIPsonicPsunspot
      9/22/15 5:27pm

      whaddya got against sportsball players, i played sportsball for four years in college and hardly raped anyone

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      ShmeidPsonicPsunspot
      9/22/15 5:41pm

      You probably could have made your point without calling out the individuals specifically, unless of course that was your intention.

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    medrawtHamilton Nolan
    9/22/15 5:18pm

    I’ll be really interested to see if anything actually happens (NB: there’s no way I’m going to go looking for news on this, so I’m counting on Gawker to keep me informed!), because a lot of people seem to get very publicly agitated about awful things happening in our colleges when what they’re actually getting agitated about are silly things being demanded by a couple hundred 18-year olds who don’t get what they’re asking for, anyway.

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      Obliteratimedrawt
      9/22/15 5:41pm

      “Adults Shocked, Outraged By Typical Teenage Behavior” seems to account for about 30% of all news headlines these days.

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      medrawtObliterati
      9/22/15 5:44pm

      Yes, but I specifically feel like there are many more comments of the sort: “In college these days, the kids demand trigger warnings, and could use them to get out of reading required material!” and not so many of the sort: “I teach at college, and a nonzero quantity of my students have abused the idea of the trigger warning to get out of reading required material.”

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    LeNoceurHamilton Nolan
    9/22/15 5:25pm

    The older I get, the more I marvel at how dumb I used to be. When I’m 60, am I going to look back at 40-year-old me and think, “geeze, what a doofus” the same way I do now at 20-year-old me?

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      curiousLeNoceur
      9/22/15 5:33pm

      Oh yes. Yes you will.

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      KatmanduLeNoceur
      9/22/15 5:46pm

      Nah. There’s a learning curve that starts kicking in around 30 or so.

      But then you hit 60 and you realize you know absolutely nothing. But by then you have zero fucks to give so it doesn’t matter anyway.

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    Freddie DeBoerHamilton Nolan
    9/22/15 5:49pm

    I grew up at Wesleyan. I retain a great deal of affection for the students, in many ways, but shit like this is part of what has informed my criticism of some campus activism. I constantly am told by media liberals that rejection of free speech on campus is a myth, but that’s just not true, and it’s usually voiced by people who are never on campus themselves.

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      Kant stand itFreddie DeBoer
      9/22/15 7:13pm

      I went to Wesleyan shortly after 9/11 and I remember that one of the first rallies I attended included booing the campus republican when he tried to talk. It will always be home.

      And I'm totally getting high right now.

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      CaptainObviousXFreddie DeBoer
      9/22/15 8:58pm

      My biggest problem with Wes had to do with how the kids treated townies like shit while espousing social activism. And do you remember what Foss hill was like after spring fling? Disgusting way to treat your own campus...

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    TRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)Hamilton Nolan
    9/22/15 5:16pm

    Dear conservatives, I promise that my more... strongly convicted liberal colleagues mean well when they try to force everyone we disagree with to live like us. I will do my best to restrain our crazies, if you do your best to restrain yours.

    Oh, your side’s completely overrun by crazy?

    Well, shit.

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      Cam/ronTRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)
      9/22/15 5:24pm

      “Hey, hey, ho, ho, [insert target of protest] has got to go!”

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