University Of Pittsburgh Students Attend Event With Trigger Warning, Still Get Offended
The Steel City went soft this week. As you may remember, a few weeks ago we covered a speech made by Milo Yiannopoulos. Well, he’s back at it again, offending the living shit out of college students. This time, he took his talents to the University of Pittsburgh.
Some of his talking points included the gender wage gap (he says you’re an idiot if you think there is one), Black Lives Matter (according to him, it’s a supremacy group), and feminists (he calls them “man-haters”). I’ll admit he’s coming off a little strong, but hey, it’s a meaningful discussion. Surely the fully grown adults in the room can take his words with a grain of salt and understand he has a right to his own views. Wait, damn, I forgot it’s 2016 and everyone’s emotional stability has dwindled to that of a 4-year-old.
Students were brought to tears, not from the bravery of this man to speak his mind when faced with endless opposition, but from the “literal physical danger” they felt they were in while at the event. Since the speech, two events have been held to support those who “experienced trauma, [had] been triggered, or felt any kind of pain from the events.” It’s interesting that a speaker with such controversial views wasn’t advertised with a trigger warning to inform students they might be hurt by the message. Oh, wait — HE WAS.
From BreibartBreitbart:
“President of the College Republicans and fellow student Tim Nerozzi responded to the complaints by proclaiming, ‘I’m not here to rain on your parade. We put a trigger warning on our fliers for the event. We never claimed it would be a family friendly or a politically correct lecture.’”
In review, these students were given a trigger warning about an event, attended it anyway, and then proceeded to complain about how the mean man made them cry. What’s the point of a trigger warning if you aren’t going to listen to it? If you walk up to a fence that says “Dangerous High Voltage Authorized Personnel Only,” and you find a way past that fence and get electrocuted, not only are you an idiot, you cannot blame the people who WARNED you because you didn’t listen to them. Those students chose to attend the speech, and any emotional distress caused by it was their own damn fault for showing up in the first place..
[via Breibart]
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Eat shit Pitt
10 years ago at 12:55 amThis is all a big joke and we are all being trolled
10 years ago at 3:17 amI really don’t like the idea of university held safe spaces. It’s a waste of time and money, contributes to rising tuition costs, and helps perpetuate the pussification of college students.
10 years ago at 10:04 amCollege now is a place not for the free flow of good ideas anymore, instead its for those to try to acquire their fifteen min of fame in whatever way they seem fit or attainable and damn the consequences. They feel entitled without earning anything just for existing and believe that whatever their mommy and daddy thought was special about them somehow makes their opinions and values more important than anyone else and, and to offend them is the ultimate sin. The reality is that the world doesn’t give a fuck about how you feel or what offends you especially if you have been warned first. This era of participation trophy having soft ass entitled uniformed while having the most access information on the planet than any other generation has to stop they embarass us as people and as Americans, gender or race doesn’t even apply if you’re a fucking moron because you’re a fucking moron, it’s all its its own club at this point.
10 years ago at 10:42 amAlmost its own club at this point*
10 years ago at 10:46 amThe Pussyfication of America. Please, let’s leave these assholes out of the history books. That is, unless, they get triggered by history itself or some bullshit and protest that history should never be taught or recorded again to protect everyone’s feelings.
10 years ago at 11:19 amAs a student of Pitt, hearing this made me smh. 125 students went into this event and turned our school into a laughing stock for a least a good while. Getting over it. Other peoples opinion shouldnt affect you in such a devastating manner
10 years ago at 2:30 pmMaybe all this people will forget to read the warning labels on bleach and still chug it.
10 years ago at 8:20 am