Univ of Maryland tells safe-space-seeking snowflakes "This is NOT a home"

[ShootSpeeders]

The college will now be called a hotbed of racism and nazism.

‘Not a Home’? Students Blast U. of Maryland for Administrator’s Comment

nov 6 2017 University of Maryland at College Park administrator said last month the campus is not a home, a statement that students and others online said was dismissive of their safety and inclusivity concerns.

It was in a University Senate meeting concerning a ban on “hate symbols” when Diane Krejsa, chief of staff in the general counsel’s office, made the remark that has incensed the student activists, reports the student newspaper The Diamondback.

“This is not a home,” she said. “If people are paying money to come to college because they want a home — where people all think alike and everybody has the same political views, and the same social views and the same views on sexual orientation and transgender and whatever religion or whatever it is — they should stay at home.”

 

[Blackrook]

Universities used to be renowned as places where you were exposed to all points of view, and you were challenged. How did the liberals turn that around?

 

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Univ of Maryland tells safe-space-seeking snowflakes "This is NOT a home"

Does anyone actually disagree with that sentiment?

 

[MarathonMike]

Univ of Maryland tells safe-space-seeking snowflakes "This is NOT a home"

Does anyone actually disagree with that sentiment?

Yes, if you read the summary the students totally disagree. I'm glad to see someone at my alma mater growing a pair and standing up to the little twits.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Universities used to be renowned as places where you were exposed to all points of view, and you were challenged. How did the liberals turn that around?

Liberals want students exposed to all types of skin color, not points of view. They insist everyone be a white-hating racist socialist.

 

[usmbguest5318]

Univ of Maryland tells safe-space-seeking snowflakes "This is NOT a home"

Does anyone actually disagree with that sentiment?

Yes, if you read the summary the students totally disagree. I'm glad to see someone at my alma mater growing a pair and standing up to the little twits.

if you read the summary the students totally disagree.

Well, yes, but unless those students (student groups) are overwhelmingly masters and doctoral degree candidates, they are undergraduates, and that by definition means they have a lot to learn, even though they already and presumably have learned quite a lot. Consequently, I think learning that state colleges/universities make no effort to be socio-political, ideological hubs of homogeneity is among the the things they have yet to learn. It is not only the responsibility of us "fully fledged" adults (which is a status that isn't entirely a function of age and/or formal education) to ignore their ill conceived emotional rants and protests, save from showing them the irrationality of the nature of their protest. (For some students, that may entail "showing them the door;" however, one hopes that insofar as they are college students, that they'd "get it" before that step needs to be taken.)

Are there colleges/universities that deliberately design themselves to be and effectively cater to a relatively homogenous subset of the overall population? Yes, there are, and if that's the sort of atmosphere one seeks, one should attend one of them, namely the one that will most likely succor one's hunger for continual confirmation bias.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

The college will now be called a hotbed of racism and nazism.

‘Not a Home’? Students Blast U. of Maryland for Administrator’s Comment

nov 6 2017 University of Maryland at College Park administrator said last month the campus is not a home, a statement that students and others online said was dismissive of their safety and inclusivity concerns.

It was in a University Senate meeting concerning a ban on “hate symbols” when Diane Krejsa, chief of staff in the general counsel’s office, made the remark that has incensed the student activists, reports the student newspaper The Diamondback.

“This is not a home,” she said. “If people are paying money to come to college because they want a home — where people all think alike and everybody has the same political views, and the same social views and the same views on sexual orientation and transgender and whatever religion or whatever it is — they should stay at home.”

This is the sort of talk needed on campuses everywhere, starting with high schools.