Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Students Fear for Their Safety Because Conservatives Invited a Speaker to Campus

Students Fear for Their Safety Because Conservatives Invited a Speaker to Campus | National Review Online:
Apparently, the simple presence of Christina Hoff Sommers on campus could be traumatizing. Students at both Oberlin College in Ohio and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., have been crying out that they fear for their safety because conservative groups invited someone who disagrees with their views on sexual assault and rape culture to speak on campus. 
...A photo on Twitter shows a student holding another sign reading, “TRIGGER WARNING: anti-feminism” and advertising the location of a “safe space” for anyone who might feel traumatized by Sommers’s opposing views. 
...In fact, the Oberlin students who wrote a piece for the school newspaper protesting the invitation preceded it with a trigger warning — apparently, they consider Sommers to be so dangerous that even talking about her talking could traumatize someone. 
...“It is valid and necessary to both create alternative spaces for healing and to directly challenge the violence that is happening,” it continued. 
The letter also announced an “alternate event,” titled “We’re Still Here Monday.”

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