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"To those unfamiliar with the UChicago’s abysmal campus climate, a strong
stance against echo chambers may seem reasonable. But marginalized students
know that this declaration ignores the real problems on campus: sexual assault,
racial profiling, and other troubling issues."
An excellent response. People who don't understand why "safe spaces" and
"trigger warnings" are important to some people need to listen and understand
those needs rather than complain about "oversensitivity".
Via Rugger Ducky, who added:
I worked very hard to establish safe spaces and a GLBTQ student group at my
university in the deep south. It's exhausting enough to spend all day on
campus in monotone lectures, without having to spend too much of explaining
simple things people can just search for. Or listening to all the soft
catcalls of insults about my sexual orientation, my being a woman speaking up
in front of Southern Baptist men, etc.
People need safe spaces away from stupid questions and insults. Places that
they can feel safe. It's often not their dorm rooms, look at the freshman at
San Jose State not long ago that was tormented and tortured by his
horrifically racist roommates. Want to know what the RA did? Wrote them a
warning not to use the "lock of shame" (a bicycle u-lock they were locking
around his neck when he wouldn't play slave the right ways for them.) They of
course continued their torture of the poor young man.
And that was in the very liberal Bay Area of California.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
