🐱 University of Chicago says "GTFO trigger warnings and safe spaces"
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A number of UK universities have done similar.
Since the National Union of Students became infested by dangerhairs and a leader who is Grossly anti-semitic a number of universities have basically turfed out the NUS via the students themselves telling them to piss off.
This list includes Hull, Newcastle, Lincoln and Loughborogh (aka Team GB's Gold Medal Factory) with more universities and their local student unions actively considering their positions and likely to hold a vote. However, of the four who voted this year all voted to leave.
Kind of shows that there's always going to be push back when stupid rears its head. A similar incident was fanned by central NUS when some random student tried to get a statue of Cecil Rhodes removed in Cambridge the Dean's response was fantastically patronizing by pointing out there were plenty of other unis they could go study at.
Oddly enough, the loss of the privilege of saying they studied at Cambridge caused them to shut the hell up very very quickly.
Since the National Union of Students became infested by dangerhairs and a leader who is Grossly anti-semitic a number of universities have basically turfed out the NUS via the students themselves telling them to piss off.
This list includes Hull, Newcastle, Lincoln and Loughborogh (aka Team GB's Gold Medal Factory) with more universities and their local student unions actively considering their positions and likely to hold a vote. However, of the four who voted this year all voted to leave.
Kind of shows that there's always going to be push back when stupid rears its head. A similar incident was fanned by central NUS when some random student tried to get a statue of Cecil Rhodes removed in Cambridge the Dean's response was fantastically patronizing by pointing out there were plenty of other unis they could go study at.
Oddly enough, the loss of the privilege of saying they studied at Cambridge caused them to shut the hell up very very quickly.
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Finally. This bullshit being endorsed needs to stop. It is a poison that closes off minds.
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Yesss. Any students unhappy about this need to consider just how privileged they are to be able to go there in the first place lol
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Not to mention the adult world these students face won't have safe spaces so they should learn to deal with contrasting opinions now. College was great and all but reality isn't so nice.
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U Chicago is actually doing its job of preparing its students for reality.
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As is the case at many R1 institutions, the University of Chicago itself offers "safer spaces" professional development workshops for faculty, and these workshops receive good reviews.
Some people are citing this as proof that UChicago admin are dangerously out-of-touch with a modern world in which safe spaces are not only valid but actually essential, while others are demanding that the university purge itself of this awful cancer while it still can.
So, what is this "safer spaces" training, and why would it appeal to any reasonable person?
In order to qualify for tenure at an R1 school, faculty have to meet or exceed high productivity benchmarks according to a strict timetable. Moreover, new faculty hired on the strength of their individual research often find themselves in the unfamiliar position of managing large collaborative groups comprising other faculty, technicians, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate research assistants.
Faculty participants feel they are able to run more efficient labs and working groups when they can anticipate, identify, and avoid breakdowns in communication that otherwise led to bottlenecks and lost productivity; hence, the appreciation for "safer spaces" training that provides these tools.
If one reads the monograph accompanying the "controversial" letter to incoming freshmen, it's really clear that comparing UChicago's "safer spaces" training to "intellectual ‘safe spaces’ where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own" is comparing apples to road apples. The monograph draws parallels between contemporary challenges to academic freedom and similar threats faced by the University of Chicago from the 1920s through the 1960s and concludes, "What matters is that the University holds together by encouraging all of its members to explain their views and beliefs in reasoned and thoughtful terms, and, having explained their views and listened carefully and respectfully to the views of others, that we cherish the right of each member of our community, each student and each faculty member, to hold firm to her or his beliefs and principles."
People who can't read beyond a headline without shitting themselves in outrage have no business being involved in higher education.
Some people are citing this as proof that UChicago admin are dangerously out-of-touch with a modern world in which safe spaces are not only valid but actually essential, while others are demanding that the university purge itself of this awful cancer while it still can.
So, what is this "safer spaces" training, and why would it appeal to any reasonable person?
In order to qualify for tenure at an R1 school, faculty have to meet or exceed high productivity benchmarks according to a strict timetable. Moreover, new faculty hired on the strength of their individual research often find themselves in the unfamiliar position of managing large collaborative groups comprising other faculty, technicians, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate research assistants.
Faculty participants feel they are able to run more efficient labs and working groups when they can anticipate, identify, and avoid breakdowns in communication that otherwise led to bottlenecks and lost productivity; hence, the appreciation for "safer spaces" training that provides these tools.
If one reads the monograph accompanying the "controversial" letter to incoming freshmen, it's really clear that comparing UChicago's "safer spaces" training to "intellectual ‘safe spaces’ where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own" is comparing apples to road apples. The monograph draws parallels between contemporary challenges to academic freedom and similar threats faced by the University of Chicago from the 1920s through the 1960s and concludes, "What matters is that the University holds together by encouraging all of its members to explain their views and beliefs in reasoned and thoughtful terms, and, having explained their views and listened carefully and respectfully to the views of others, that we cherish the right of each member of our community, each student and each faculty member, to hold firm to her or his beliefs and principles."
People who can't read beyond a headline without shitting themselves in outrage have no business being involved in higher education.
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This is how you should treat spoiled children.
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I wish I could spastically click Agree 100 times in a row on this.
And no, UC are not dangerously out of touch with anything. They're deeply in touch with enduring fundamentals that will remain long after this current society's bout of lunacy.
They're also not trying to "purge" anything. SJW morons remain free to attend the university and have whatever stupid opinions they have. They're just not made a little cadre of despots who can censor anything they don't like with crybully tactics.
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Lol one of my feminist friends is butthurt about this
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Lol one of my feminist friends is butthurt about this
It's easier to bitch at The Man than to take some initiative and tell snotty brats to stop hiding behind the word "trigger."
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Here's r/gamerghazi clutching their pearls.
It's sad there's no sane middle ground between, "Hey, this showing of Nazi death camps might disturb someone, feel free to take a break if it's too much," and "Gendered nouns might offend someone, we must ban the entire romance language department immediately." Like all such tribalistic politics, it's a zero-sum game with no room for compromise or negotiation.
It's sad there's no sane middle ground between, "Hey, this showing of Nazi death camps might disturb someone, feel free to take a break if it's too much," and "Gendered nouns might offend someone, we must ban the entire romance language department immediately." Like all such tribalistic politics, it's a zero-sum game with no room for compromise or negotiation.
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Lol one of my feminist friends is butthurt about this
Time to loose a friend buddy!
Well , at least there will be one university where real science will be made, not data-tampered dangerhair coddling tomfoolery.