Michhigan Creates “Safe Space” for Students Afraid of Debate on Feminism
RUSH: Wait 'til you hear what University of Michigan has done for its students. It's basically acknowledging and enabling 100 percent cowardice of words.
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RUSH: Get this from the state of Michigan, from our buddies at The Daily Caller. You've heard about all these things they call microaggressions that our young college students are so frightful of, so scared of, so afraid, can't have microaggressions, no, no, no. They need safe places to be protected from harmful words, speech that they might disagree with. It's just scary. So the university is setting up safe rooms, safe spaces for these kids to go.
"A student center for gay, bisexual, and transgender students at the University of Michigan created a safe space Tuesday to protect students frightened by an approaching debate on the subject 'Does Feminism Have a Free Speech Problem?'" The announcement by the Michigan Spectrum Student Center said, "We recognize that the rhetoric of the speakers featured in this event is incredibly harmful to many members of our campus community. The Spectrum Center will be providing a supportive alternative space this evening and holding extended staffed hours until 9pm. There will be no program; our intent is to offer a relaxing, positive space for students who want to gather in community," but don't want to have to face the harmful thoughts that might be expressed in the debate.
And the debate, "Does feminism have a free speech problem?" is so paralyzingly frightening to some Michigan students that they demanded a safe space to be shielded from whatever might be said at that debate. Well, you think I'm making this up? You're rolling your head in there. You think I'm making this up? It's right here at Chatsworth Osborne, Jr.,'s website.
"The Spectrum Center is a student center that offers various programs and services through a framework of 'sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.'
The upcoming event that has Spectrum residents so upset is an appearance by British journalist Milo Yiannopoulos hosted by The Michigan Review. Yiannopoulos, a gay man and an intense critic of feminism, is currently on his so-called 'Dangerous [Bleep] Tour' which is taking him to dozens of schools in the US, United Kingdom, and several other countries. At Michigan, he is scheduled to debate feminist writer Julie Bindel on whether feminism is encouraging the suppression of free speech."
They need a safe space from this. Yes, we had to bleep a word in there, folks, but it was not my word. It was the title of a tour. Just not worth the hassle here. No big deal.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/23/michigan-creates-safe-space-for-students-afraid-of-debate-on-feminism/
RUSH: Wait 'til you hear what University of Michigan has done for its students. It's basically acknowledging and enabling 100 percent cowardice of words.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Get this from the state of Michigan, from our buddies at The Daily Caller. You've heard about all these things they call microaggressions that our young college students are so frightful of, so scared of, so afraid, can't have microaggressions, no, no, no. They need safe places to be protected from harmful words, speech that they might disagree with. It's just scary. So the university is setting up safe rooms, safe spaces for these kids to go.
"A student center for gay, bisexual, and transgender students at the University of Michigan created a safe space Tuesday to protect students frightened by an approaching debate on the subject 'Does Feminism Have a Free Speech Problem?'" The announcement by the Michigan Spectrum Student Center said, "We recognize that the rhetoric of the speakers featured in this event is incredibly harmful to many members of our campus community. The Spectrum Center will be providing a supportive alternative space this evening and holding extended staffed hours until 9pm. There will be no program; our intent is to offer a relaxing, positive space for students who want to gather in community," but don't want to have to face the harmful thoughts that might be expressed in the debate.
And the debate, "Does feminism have a free speech problem?" is so paralyzingly frightening to some Michigan students that they demanded a safe space to be shielded from whatever might be said at that debate. Well, you think I'm making this up? You're rolling your head in there. You think I'm making this up? It's right here at Chatsworth Osborne, Jr.,'s website.
"The Spectrum Center is a student center that offers various programs and services through a framework of 'sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.'
The upcoming event that has Spectrum residents so upset is an appearance by British journalist Milo Yiannopoulos hosted by The Michigan Review. Yiannopoulos, a gay man and an intense critic of feminism, is currently on his so-called 'Dangerous [Bleep] Tour' which is taking him to dozens of schools in the US, United Kingdom, and several other countries. At Michigan, he is scheduled to debate feminist writer Julie Bindel on whether feminism is encouraging the suppression of free speech."
They need a safe space from this. Yes, we had to bleep a word in there, folks, but it was not my word. It was the title of a tour. Just not worth the hassle here. No big deal.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/23/michigan-creates-safe-space-for-students-afraid-of-debate-on-feminism/