University Of Chicago Tells Freshmen They Don’t Give A Shit About Their Safe Spaces And Trigger Warnings
The University of Chicago is sending a stern warning to incoming freshmen. That warning is that your stupid, little safe spaces and cryings for trigger warnings will not be tolerated. University officials sent out the following letter to the 2020 class:
It’s about goddamn time. Let me tell you, kids these days are getting too soft. We can’t just cater to everyone’s needs. That’s just not how the real world works. There are going to be times where you don’t get your way or someone says something that you don’t necessarily agree with, but you know what happens when you complain in the real world? Nobody listens, and all of a sudden you are now the whiny bitch of the office. No one likes the whiny bitch.
So fuck your safe spaces and fuck your trigger warnings, all you PC SJWs out there. If you got a problem with it, hit me with an email @ harrison@grandex.co, because I’m running out of toilet paper at home and could print out your emails and use them to wipe my ass..
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About time SOMEONE said it. Hopefully this will be a trend.
10 years ago at 11:45 amBest thing to come out of that place since Milton Friedman
10 years ago at 12:17 pmA top-5 school finally doing something right
10 years ago at 1:09 pmAbout time a major university stood up to this bullshit. If words and ideas are so offensive to you that you refuse to even hear them, you are not ready for college (or adulthood).
10 years ago at 1:35 pm“Dude, we need to come together as a country and establish some shared understanding of what these terms mean.
It has been my experience that some people think “trigger warning” means something along the lines of “Anyone who doesn’t like to talk about the subject we’re about to discuss is excused from class for the day and they never have to study this topic because they are precious, delicate, fluffy bunnies and the world has to be made of clouds and sugar cubes for them.”
That is not what a trigger warning is. Trigger warning is more like “Hey, we recognize that many people in our society–men and women both–have been the victims of violent sexual assault and molestation. Given that it is statistically likely that in a class of 50 people a subset of them have gone through extremely violent trauma and given that they have probably had to go to therapy and counseling to put the pieces of their lives back together, this is us giving those people a heads up that we’re about to talk about sexual violence and assault and they might want to fasten their safety belts, take a deep breath, and be prepared for what we’re going to discuss.”
Why does it piss people off so much that traumatized people are asking for a ‘head’s up’ warning before you re-traumatize them? I am willing to bet that if a US soldier suffering from PTSD and Gulf War syndrome had come up with the term ‘trigger warning’ to ask that depictions of police brutality, victims of war, and other violence be labeled with an advance warning, a bunch of the jerks who are on here spouting off about how trigger warnings are for “delicate snowflakes” would be like “SUPPORT OUR TROOPS YO”.
There’s no material difference between a military veteran with shellshock and a rape victim who has PTSD from their rape. The only difference is one got it serving their country and the other got it because of a violent person with poor impulse control.
Nobody is seriously asking universities to remove rape litigation from their law school curricula. If anything, people who ask for trigger warnings want tighter legislation on rape and sexual crimes in general! They are simply asking that before you dump a hot mess of sexual violence in their head you give them a heads up so they can be prepared for it so as not to have a panic attack, episode of anxiety, flashbacks, or whatever else their trauma has predisposed them to. Jesus.” But hey, this is fucking TFM after all.
10 years ago at 4:06 pmShut the fuck up
10 years ago at 7:59 pmHeads up, trigger warning…fuck a cheese grater so you can’t reproduce
10 years ago at 1:42 amYou know what’s great about being a non-“progessive” and being damn good at observing The Left? I can spot a bullshitter a mile away.
There is so much bullshit in your post I don’t know where to start. The fact that you wrote all that is telling of your intent here. “But hey, this is fucking TFM after all.” Even I know what trigger warnings are in its appropriate context and I still think your post it a patronizing piece of shit.
“It has been my experience … ” Well, it’s been my experience that you’re talking out of your ass because it’s rather apparent that even though trigger warning are meant to look out for those who have been sexually assaulted, the intent of its original purpose has been lost on those who aggressively push for its establishment in today’s college vernacular. Your kind fall back on a planned outline (it’s clear your post has been written before in some other form, to combat articles like these — you’ve done this before) all while acting like a little bitch.
>>Given that it is statistically likely that in a class of 50 people a subset of them have gone through extremely violent trauma and given that they have probably had to go to therapy and counseling to put the pieces of their lives back together, this is us giving those people a heads up that we’re about to talk about sexual violence and assault and they might want to fasten their safety belts, take a deep breath, and be prepared for what we’re going to discuss.<>Why does it piss people off so much that traumatized people are asking for a ‘head’s up’ warning before you re-traumatize them?<>I am willing to bet that if a US soldier suffering from PTSD and Gulf War syndrome had come up with the term ‘trigger warning’ to ask that depictions of police brutality, victims of war, and other violence be labeled with an advance warning, a bunch of the jerks who are on here spouting off about how trigger warnings are for “delicate snowflakes” would be like “SUPPORT OUR TROOPS YO<<
Even if a war veteran did come up with the term, the term would be hijacked by leftist idiots and the rejection of its use would still stand ground. There's no trigger warning advocacy on behalf of war veterans. War veterans aren't acting like delicate snowflakes. Your ENTIRE post just fell apart.
You start off as some sort of pseudo-intellectual, hiding your non-thinking brain behind rhetoric that's verbatim from your academic courses, but you've been caught. You first start off with a common tactic – thinking that those here do not understand what a trigger warning is. You then hide behind what your professors told you. Then you move to cliches and jabs like "Well this is TFM" and "SUPPORT THE TROOPS YO."
As an MSW candidate I say fuck trigger warnings. There has been no damn proof that trigger warnings have helped greatly for its intended target; instead is has created losers like you and created a campus climate that's incompatible with intellectual curiosity and intellectual diversity. Real education has been sacrificed.
10 years ago at 1:24 am>>Given that it is statistically likely that in a class of 50 people a subset of them have gone through extremely violent trauma and given that they have probably had to go to therapy and counseling to put the pieces of their lives back together, this is us giving those people a heads up that we’re about to talk about sexual violence and assault and they might want to fasten their safety belts, take a deep breath, and be prepared for what we’re going to discuss.<<
You move from "extremely violent trauma" to "sexual violence." Which is it?
Sexual assault is a specific topic and you act like professors bring it up every day, in every class. They simply don't. That's the reality of it. Unless you're in some social work or gender studies class, some diversity training, or at a talk about sexual assault it's simply not brought up.
Like BLM, there aren't racist cops shooting innocent black bystanders every hour nor are 1 in 4 women being raped on a given college campus. It's more of a myth. A lie. An over exaggerated grain of truth that gets carried into hysteria because it makes people feel that they finally have a purpose to fulfill.
10 years ago at 1:30 amIn the era of political correctness we live in nowadays, all I have to say is this: Good on you, University of Chicago. Good on you.
10 years ago at 11:15 amHats off to UofC. One of the few schools that is actually intellectual, rather than liberal pretending to be intellectual. Proud they are in my home town, which by the way is more Democrat than liberal (both of which are bad, of course).
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The WSJ published an article that showed that 43% of all student loans weren’t being paid due to forbearance, delinquency or default. A couple years before, it had been 48%, but the FEDs decided to help a very few cash strapped student loan borrowers from going tits up. So when I see some god damn poser yapping about safe spaces and dangerous speech and ignores uni corruption, I have to think that these aholes are too stupid for college. If you’re going deep into debt to attend ANY uni and expect not to be challenged or to be forced to defend your thinking, then you’re a god damn idiot. The smartest people are the ones who gain an education without the need of a uni, or realize the extent of the scam and go an alternate route…..
10 years ago at 3:53 pm