Social Justice Warriors are the new crazy kids on the block

[JayJayH 546]

As a Norwegian, I am beyond offended by the hipster beard culture. These people make a mockery of my heritage by growing beards with no understanding of the significance that beards had to my viking ancestors. I demand that hipsters stop growing beards, as it is incredibly insensitive to my culture. Also, if you're a Minnesota Vikings fan I demand that you recant your hurtful ways and burn your season pass.

Or I could just choose not to be a whiny a$$hole, go on about my day and let people do what they want.

Angry at anything that's more controversial than the color beige, the 'cultural appropriation' crowd are the useful idiots on the left who are going to get Donald Trump elected president.

What on Earth is happening to free speech on college campuses? I've been offended multiple times during my college years, and luckily, I've probably offended a great number of people as well.

What I gained through actually listening to people with vastly different backgrounds and viewpoints was a moral injunction to ignore insults, recognize the good intentions of those who accidentally said something offensive - And more importantly, to be civil and respectful towards those whom I disagree with.

Learning is about challenging your own ideas, not being sheltered from uncomfortable points of view. Education is about expanding your own horizon, not silencing others to death when they don't reinforce your own narrative.

I would rather cringe through hearing my foreign name mispronounced a million times in true 'Murican fashion, than meet someone who would rather not say my name for fear of somehow offending me.

Political correctness is meant to keep public figures within some reasonable course of common decency. When it becomes a regressive tool for social justice warriors to conduct witch hunts with, everyone loses.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/ - Excellent article on the impact this new culture of victimhood has on on the mental health of college students.

"Some recent campus actions border on the surreal. In April, at Brandeis University, the Asian American student association sought to raise awareness of microaggressions against Asians through an installation on the steps of an academic hall. The installation gave examples of microaggressions such as “Aren’t you supposed to be good at math?” and “I’m colorblind! I don’t see race.” But a backlash arose among other Asian American students, who felt that the display itself was a microaggression. The association removed the installation, and its president wrote an e-mail to the entire student body apologizing to anyone who was “triggered or hurt by the content of the microaggressions.”

...*Cringe

Edited April 18, 2016 by JayJayH

[Jacque67 7,328]

Self righteous jerk!!!!!!

[Janelle2002 3,865]

I was kind of wondering what was going on in this article as well. Guess Jacque summed it up.

[ExPatty 502]

SJW have turned into the kid that cried wolf. Running out of things that actually matter, the "oppressed" among us continue to look for injustices that don't exist because they don't have anything better to do like have real jobs or families.

[Jacque67 7,328]

I was kind of wondering what was going on in this article as well. Guess Jacque summed it up.

Yep . The person who wrote the article sounds sore. The writer's bf/gf probably ran off with a "bearded hipster" - lol;)

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

[Jacque67 7,328]

Ah, but removing a famous piece of art by Hokusai is NOT the work of SJWs...

Go figure!!!

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

Ah, but removing a famous piece of art by Hokusai is NOT the work of SJWs...

Go figure!!!

perhaps a reading of the TOS might provide guidance...

Post any mature or adult content including full nudity pornographic images, videos, Strategically covered nudity, Sheer or see-through clothing, Lewd or provocative poses, pornographic cartoons or anime (hentai/ecchi).

[Jacque67 7,328]

perhaps a reading of the TOS might provide guidance...

Post any mature or adult content including full nudity pornographic images, videos, Strategically covered nudity, Sheer or see-through clothing, Lewd or provocative poses, pornographic cartoons or anime (hentai/ecchi).

So major works of art are in violation?

Seems like a SJW created the TOS!

Eta it suggest ignorance of Japanese art if Hokusai is considered a cartoonist or anime artist;)

Edited April 18, 2016 by Jacque67

[Boiler 45,525]

I thought VJ was a Safe Place?

[Jacque67 7,328]

I thought VJ was a Safe Place?

No where's safe, buddy-lol.

Eta-you aren't one of those bearded hipster special snowflakes are ya? You were interested in Slimane's pants if I recall....

Edited April 18, 2016 by Jacque67

[Boiler 45,525]

No where's safe, buddy-lol.

Where is the report button!

[ExPatty 502]

Lots of micro aggressions in this picture. Please provide a warning next time!

[Jacque67 7,328]

Where is the report button!

Remember the safe word quick, if you value your life!!!

[smilesammich 10,727]

Higher education’s embrace of “emotional reasoning”

Burns defines emotional reasoning as assuming “that your negative emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are: ‘I feel it, therefore it must be true.’ ” Leahy, Holland, and McGinn define it as letting “your feelings guide your interpretation of reality.” But, of course, subjective feelings are not always trustworthy guides; unrestrained, they can cause people to lash out at others who have done nothing wrong. Therapy often involves talking yourself down from the idea that each of your emotional responses represents something true or important.

Emotional reasoning dominates many campus debates and discussions. A claim that someone’s words are “offensive” is not just an expression of one’s own subjective feeling of offendedness. It is, rather, a public charge that the speaker has done something objectively wrong. It is a demand that the speaker apologize or be punished by some authority for committing an offense.

There have always been some people who believe they have a right not to be offended. Yet throughout American history—from the Victorian era to the free-speech activism of the 1960s and ’70s—radicals have pushed boundaries and mocked prevailing sensibilities. Sometime in the 1980s, however, college campuses began to focus on preventing offensive speech, especially speech that might be hurtful to women or minority groups. The sentiment underpinning this goal was laudable, but it quickly produced some absurd results.

What are we doing to our students if we encourage them to develop extra-thin skin just before they leave the cocoon of adult protection?

this feels pretty important.