This read is a few years old, but it's interesting all the same. Nevermind the part about the bible, I'm concerned that the words US Constitution do not appear nearly as much as communist manifesto. Anyone in our country who does not think communism and socialism are not being advocated for in our colleges is living under a rock. Nevermind the fact that a good portion of college professors across the country are liberal and rather few in comparison are conservative. This stuff is easy to find online, but most people don't want to take the time to look topics like this up though, they would rather listen to CNN tell them how things are in our country.

This sounds more like a fb rant. Too many people need to get over themselves.. A civil discussion is enlightened. A rant is immature. Who needs a thread like this. Have a good day ya'll. Lol

Give factual examples please. Not hyperbole.

Truth be told on this post, I like it.

Being British, I'm not entirely sure what a "safe space" is, but I guess it's a reaction to the "hate space" that seems to cover a lot of the US (religious, racist, misogynist, homophobic etc.). The best corrective to safe spaces would be to make them redundant.

So why are you here?
Technically this qualifies as a "safe space" for atheists
Are we all snowflakes for seeking some respite from a Christian biased culture?

I see you list "communtity". OK Nameless uni, 14000 students. Pick the atheist? Want to meet atheists, advertise. Whoops the local Christians-On_Campus have sent round the goon squad (and yes I have genuinely met such a goon squad on another matter. It's organiser now intends to enter federal politics)
So how are you going to find your community? How about the uni, in whatever manner, puts aside a room for a few hours a week in a secluded and monitored spot where you and your mates can meet, talk shit about christians and the world in general and not worry that an accidental joke will get the shit beaten out of you. Oops, safe space.

Or are you talking about trigger warnings, like we have in theatre to make sure Vets with PTSD don't get flashbacks in the middle of the show, or that women who've been raped know they are are going to see something that simulates that so they can prepare themselves. You know, taking care of our people.
Yeah it goes overboard, and fuckwits cheapen it by using it as a political gag (much as was done to the marxist professors). But I'd rather not have to go looking for a student who's run from the class and is in the fetal position sobbing in the toilets because she wasn't prepared for the rape scene in "Streetcar", her own rape being just three months previous. Don't want to do that again thanks. And there's an easy fix, give the staff tenure. It's there to prevent exactly the kind of political pressure the fuckwits can bring to bear.

And in what world are todays neo-liberal, profit driven, MBA focused tertiary institutions even vaguely Marxist?
The professors are considered leftist largely for the same reason school teachers are; they care about their students doing well. Neither group in my now 3 decades of fairly regular professional contact has shown themselves to be particularly radical. Unless you count wanting the tools to do your job well as radical. I suppose in a society where everything has to show a return this financial year the concept of a thirty or a hundred year return is radical.

Go ahead brother... make it happen.

I graduated college in 1985 with a PoliSci degree, and I don't recall being brainwashed by my liberal professors or taught that Marxism or Communism was great; if anything, they were a breath of fresh air from the small town, southern, racist crap I had been indoctrinated with since age 6...

Not in any colleges or universities I have ever been a part of, except for a damned few ideological "true believer" nuts. Be careful that you don't paint everything in a false hue!

That is false and misleading, liberal arts schools do not promote these ideologies as this meme states. Would you like to have a discussion to clear up the ignorance?

Can this be true? I am not connected to any schools of higher learning at this time, but teaching history cannot always be ‘to praise.’ But, i do worry that books on history written by people who want to distort the facts...gets into the hands of uninformed people that believe them, as true! That is my worry!

I think you've been misinformed. Though history has its tyrants we can attest but the United States from 2001 to 2011 killed over a million people alone. Twice as many as a side effect from that.
That's a ten year span.
Just because we belong to a side does not excuse us from our actions.
Two countries were invaded by the US neither which had anything to do with the reasons we went in the first place.
The bulk of the 911 terrorist were Saudi.
How do we explain those actions?
It's called tyranny.

This bothers me as well. Safe spaces aren't guaranteed in a realistic world and if we continue to teach that safe places are actually safe, the world will just become more dangerous.

This bothers me as well. Safe spaces aren't guaranteed in a realistic world and if we continue to teach that safe places are actually safe, the world will just become more dangerous.

I'm fresh out of both sociology and conflict resolution classes, and I can tell you at no point was communism praised as an example of what to do. This is propaganda. And all "safe space" means is that professors and counselors promise to listen without judging or condemnation, which is something you SHOULD be able to go to family for, but it doesn't always work that way. I'm much older than most of my classmates, with 20 years in the workforce, so I'm considerably less idealistic than the younger set, but they are not the weak crybabies they get portrayed to be.

I'm confused, why does having a safe space bother you?

Why aren't there several USA president's photos shown alongside these 3. Appears to be just more propaganda. IMHO