Posted on 12/02/2015 6:19:20 AM PST by C19fan
In the current issue of National Review, I have a piece called “Underground at Brown.†What’s it about? I’ll tell you. In fact, I’ll blow that piece out — i.e., expand it — here in Impromptus. At Brown University, in Providence, R.I., there is a secret forum in which students may discuss potentially controversial issues freely. Let me say that again: At Brown, there is a secret forum in which students may discuss potentially controversial issues — or anything they want — freely.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Also, students set up a safe space for those who might attend the debate and be shaken by something they heard. A "safe space"? Yes. This space, in the words of Judith Shulevitz, writing in the New York Times, was a room "equipped with cookies, coloring books, bubbles, Play-Doh, calming music, pillows, blankets and a video of frolicking puppies, as well as students and staff members trained to deal with trauma."
I am not springing a parody on you. This sort of room is set up at Brown and other colleges and universities around the country.
The push now is to transform Fall Weekend
into Indigenous People
s Day.
Or is it Indigenous Peoples
Day
? Im sure the placement of that apostrophe is cause for hot debate, or would be, if the fevered Left were (more) literate.
Great article. Ping for later.
The evil is here now.
This is an extremely amusing article.
Those brown pillows look like turds.
(Do I really need to tag it?)
Nope.
Would it be less humanist if I said they looked like the droppings of a medium-sized herbivorous mammal?
An article like this one comes along once in awhile at National Review, and reminds me how good NR can sometimes be.
Not an earth-shaking article for anyone on FreeRepublic, but it was an excellent well written piece that skewers PC’ers from a fresh perspective. The humor, unfortunately, is all irony. That, too, would be wasted on the libs.
Thanks for posting.
Oldplayer
That was a good article, and cuts to the bone of the collective inferiority complex behind all this campus angst.
What does free inquiry threaten? Indefensible ideas and dogma.
Who does freedom threaten? Those who believe themselves to be weak and inferior.
The two Reason@Brown students sound like they can take the heat, but they risk expulsion by Brown for being excessively able.
“Speciesist” is a word - and I guess “it’s a thing,” too - but that seems awfully unfair to entire phyla, classes, genera, etc.
Gosh, it’s a crazy world out there!
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