Posted on 04/03/2016 6:12:25 PM PDT by Kaslin
The Leftists going nuts over #TheChalkening really need to chillax and remember the benefits of free speech. #TheChalkening is a bunch of college students putting up pro-Donald Trump messages on college campuses because they know it makes the skin crawl of those who don’t support him. It all started after Emory University students started flipping out over the Trump 2016 messages being scrawled on multiple sidewalks and walls on campus. Via The Emory Wheel (emphasis mine):
“I’m supposed to feel comfortable and safe [here],” one student said. “But this man is being supported by students on our campus and our administration shows that they, by their silence, support it as well … I don’t deserve to feel afraid at my school,” she added…
University President James W. Wagner, who had been standing just inside the threshold of the door, had been called into the board room by students and listened at the head of the table while they described how the appearance of the chalkings made them feel. He addressed several questions throughout the time in the board room, including “Why did the swastikas [on the AEPi house in Fall 2014] receive a quick response while these chalkings did not?” to which Wagner replied that they “represented an outside threat” and clarified that it was a second set of swastikas that received a swift response from the University. “What do we have to do for you to listen to us?” students asked Wagner directly, to which he asked, “What actions should I take?” One student asked if Emory would send out a University-wide email to “decry the support for this fascist, racist candidate” to which Wagner replied, “No, we will not.” One student clarified that “the University doesn’t have to say they don’t support Trump, but just to acknowledge that there are students on this campus who feel this way about what’s happening … to acknowledge all of us here.”
The backlash over people supporting Trump is now moving on to other campuses with some Trump supporters telling New York Post they’re worried about being attacked by others or seeing their grades go down.
“Supporters generally try to keep it hidden from the rest of the student body,” said junior Dylan Perera, 22. “They’re afraid of losing friends, being ridiculed in class, getting worse grades and are even afraid of being assaulted and physically hurt.”
The computer-science major from LA said he was verbally accosted by a student who had asked about his affiliation.
“She freaked out and started yelling and screaming in my face, calling me a racist and a fascist. It was impossible to even have a conversation,” he said.
One student was so freaked out he refused to let the Post publish his name and even had a private room reserved to talk to the reporter. That might be a little too paranoid, but it shows just how ridiculous this debate over safe spaces has gotten. I wrote last year how Yale students asked for a “safe space” during Halloween because they didn’t want to offend anyone. Peggy Noonan and Kevin D. Williamson have also written about how perilous the First Amendment has gotten because the Left seems to be hellbent on making sure it applies only in certain situations.
This is ridiculous and sad on more than a few levels. Yes, private universities can set up their own rules on free speech but public universities can’t. People should be allowed to speak their own mind, without fear of retribution on college campuses. Could they lose friends? Sure, but that’s a risk people take whenever they decide to support a candidate or philosophy which goes against “normal college thought.” But their grades shouldn’t be affected, nor should their safety, and nor should their ability to proselytize for the candidate they want to be president. Emory University President James Walker probably had the best response to #TheChalkening (h/t FIRE)
Emory President James W. Wagner chalks for free speech. 3/25/2016
There are probably going to be people who suggest those who participate in #TheChalkening should be charged with vandalism. But this isn’t the case at all. These people aren’t using paint to deface a building or breaking into someone’s dorm room to damage their stuff. It’s chalk. It can be washed away without a problem, doesn’t really add anything to a water bill, and only costs time. There’s no case for vandalism because, again, it’s chalk.
Free speech is important on college campuses, even if it’s promoting something I personally disagree with. College is supposed to prepare students for “real life,” meaning they’ll face challenging and uncomfortable situations. There’s no reason to create a “safe space” for students because life isn’t a safe space. The best way for students to respond to #TheChalkening is to either come up with their own version of it or just ignore it. Trying to stamp out free speech doesn’t work and it’s disgusting to see students try to get others silenced.
People, lets raise the drill bit just a bit on the chalking issue.
What does the hysterical reaction from the leftist-communist-progressive-socialist left really say? IMHO it is a clear and absolute admission that their political and social position is untenable and they know it.
So, rather than face defeat in a honest and open debate about an issue/political candidate they seek to shut off all conversation. This is the reaction of a five year old not adults and highly educated educational professionals (just ask them).
It’s like the devil coaxed them into a corner of ridiculous cowardice. Well, actually the devil did.
Chalk pictures of Donald Trump are getting liberals to act like cats whose tails were twisted, and Trump isn’t even all that marvelously conservative.
“Chillax”?? WTH? I don’t need to learn any more hipster jive talk and Barbara Billingsly isn’t around any more to translate. Just speak English.
I need to get my oldest two boys and get to work in music city
They need to be jeered at.
They want fascism in the name of feelings.
It isn’t even “we need to unite to be strong”, it is “silence dissent because we are weak”.
The Left is always hostile towards the 1A.
It is called Menticide-—what happens when children spend their life in front of artificial tubes/screens-—being progrmmed and monitored 24/7 and fed lies and half-truths in curricula-—told irrational things like “sodomizing other is “good” and “killing babies” is a “natural right” from the State.
Banning Christ and the Bible from the public square and public schools-—leaves religious freedom only for a few hours a week-—if even that....so that Atheism, Satanism, Humanism, paganism-—all become the worldview of the child-—embedded “faiths” with taxpayer money (Jokes on Us!!!) so the children remain not only irrational, but ignorant of Truth and the Wisdom of the Ages which created the Minds of Newton, The Founders and Tesla-—and only Truth will set them Free. Truth was banned intentionally so children remain like little tribal Inca minds with no ability to “know” anything worth knowing.
Knowledge is Power——they have absolutely NO Knowledge after being locked up in a “mandatory” indoctrination factory and so they have no Power-—no autonomy-—NO Self-Reliance-—which is learned and habituated by doing and practicing mastering Real Life situations in the Natural Family so Common Sense and understanding of male/female can take place, along with dealing with Real Life Emotions and understanding male/female identity and Self-—not the artificial system of institutions which embed mass conformity (destroys individuality/thinking outside the box. It instills only dependency and the Prussian system of goose-stepping and taking orders from the State.
Boys are totally emasculated by the “system”-—of dehumanization and they literally “fear” the irrational (like chalk) and disagreeing with the herd/group/State meme that Up is Down, Boys are Girls and God is Dead.
“You Chalk Too Much.”
Nice pic ‘ChalkMonkey’
“Micro-Agressions”, the new cool word.
“The fragile Snowflakes are a product of liberal indoctrination, they shouldn’t even be in College, they should be in treatment.”
I believe “treatment” is what got them to where they are right now. They just need a reality check which is in their future whether they want it or not.
Re your post #30. Very nice. I do see a small minority of teens from my work at the Church that do not fall into the categories you describe but for the vast majority, you’ve nailed it.
Banning Christ and the Bible from the public square and public schools-—leaves religious freedom only for a few hours a week-—if even that....so that Atheism, Satanism, Humanism, paganism-—all become the worldview of the child-—embedded “faiths” with taxpayer money (Jokes on Us!!!) so the children remain not only irrational, but ignorant of Truth and the Wisdom of the Ages which created the Minds of Newton, The Founders and Tesla-—and only Truth will set them Free. Truth was banned intentionally so children remain like little tribal Inca minds with no ability to “know” anything worth knowing.
Knowledge is Power——they have absolutely NO Knowledge after being locked up in a “mandatory” indoctrination factory and so they have no Power-—no autonomy-—NO Self-Reliance-—which is learned and habituated by doing and practicing mastering Real Life situations in the Natural Family so Common Sense and understanding of male/female can take place, along with dealing with Real Life Emotions and understanding male/female identity and Self-—not the artificial system of institutions which embed mass conformity (destroys individuality/thinking outside the box. It instills only dependency and the Prussian system of goose-stepping and taking orders from the State.
Boys are totally emasculated by the “system”-—of dehumanization and they literally “fear” the irrational (like chalk) and disagreeing with the herd/group/State meme that Up is Down, Boys are Girls and God is Dead.
This.
They've been coddled from kindergarten by the state. So, yes they are - in both.
Someone needs to chalk Fox news!
Pray America wakes
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