More ridiculous collegiate political correctness

[GrowingSmaller]

I used to try levitation but gave it up.

 

[grasping the after wind]

If political correctness is a mental illness, how would diagnose someone who repeatedly fails to comprehend what multiple people have told them, choosing instead to believe a distortion of reality?

My bold.
and a fairly accurate definition for political correctness.

 

[TLK Valentine]

And, on just a couple threads over there is a denial that there were or are any Muslims who applaud 9/11.

(emphasis mine) Assuming this is true, what thread is this?

 

[redleghunter]

It might offend some Pagans to use the term Pandora's box as it sheds a bad light upon Pandora that her box is seen in negative terms. I think many might find this space even more unsafe from the use of such a term. Now if you will excuse me, I will take a moment of silence to remember innocent victims of Islamic terrorists.

LOL....Need to clean up some coffee off the screen.

 

[redleghunter]

I could comment to this, but what I want to say would make some people angry and defensive, so I will respectfully decline comment.



Okay. Whatever. However, from personal experience, it would be like opening Pandora's Box and wrecking havoc if I said what I really want to say. And for the record, I used the term because I like to read stories of Greek Mythology from time to time. I thought it was an appropriate term to describe the havoc I have experienced on this site.

It's 'wreaking havoc' .

 

[redleghunter]

Is it really all that surprising noting the degree of Islamophobia that has become so prevalent in this country in recent years?

Have there been attacks on Muslims in the US in recent years?

Wake me up when you have an actual body count.

 

[redleghunter]

The student body didn't vote.

The use of the term "unsafe" is the height of cowardice. It is another in a long line of terms employed by the fascist left to end debate and silence any opposition. Anyone threatened by a moment of silence suffers from delusions of some form.

Delusions from living pampered spoiled lives.

 

[redleghunter]

Another canard. The security concerns are real, and did not rise from an irrational hatred of Islam. They arose in response to the actions of a percentage of Muslims shouting Allah Akbar while they slaughtered the innocent.

I am fascinated, yet quite concerned with the masochistic zeal of these college students to be beggars to their own demise.

 

[AionPhanes]

Have there been attacks on Muslims in the US in recent years?

Wake me up when you have an actual body count.

I do remember a guy going into a Sikh temple and murdering worshipers because he confused them for Muslims. The guy wanted to kill Muslims because of 9/11 but was to stupid to distinguish Sikhs from Muslims. They had turbans must be Muslims.

 

[whatbogsends]

Let anyone offended by it be offended by it. They deserve to be offended if it offends them, and nobody should care about their feelings. I'm at the point where I believe political correctness is flat out a mental illness.

And, on just a couple threads over there is a denial that there were or are any Muslims who applaud 9/11. So it's not just childish students, it's the whole rest of the Left with their worship of Muslims as well.

There is no denial (or threads suggesting) that there were "were or are any Muslims who applaud 9/11".

There are threads which call out the lie of Trump that "thousands and thousands of people in Jersey City were cheering the fall of the towers on 9/11", a claim which lacks any shred of evidence, and is contradicted by reality.

 

[whatbogsends]

It's more like liberals ignore blacks killing other blacks while one "white" cop killing a black thug they cry racist. They don't realize they are the one who are racist when they only care when a murder and/or shooting fits their world view to make them feel superior.

It's more like conservative ignore cops unlawfully killing citizens without consequence while one citizen killing a cop and they cry "there's a war on police".

 

[Christian Unity]

College Students Say Remembering 9/11 Is Offensive to Muslims
How a proposed moment of silence to honor 9/11 victims became the latest victim of the would-be despots of America’s campuses.
The everything-is-offensive brand of campus activism has struck a new low: Students at the University of Minnesota killed a proposed moment of silence for 9/11 victims due to concerns—insulting, childish concerns—that Muslim students would be offended.

Has it truly come to this? Is feelings-protection now such an overriding goal that completely unreasonable fears win out, even if they have no basis in reality? Can we not even have a single moment to recognize legitimate victims of terrorism without worrying that someone will feel marginalized on campus?

Theo Menon, a Minnesota Student Association representative and member of the College Republicans, realized that the university wasn’t doing anything to memorialize 9/11; on Oct. 6, he introduced an MSA proposal to do just that.

“The passing of this resolution might make a space that is unsafe for students on campus even more unsafe,” said Algadi. “Islamophobia and racism fueled through that are alive and well.”

To be clear, the resolution did not refer to Islam. It did not impugn Muslim students, or other Muslims. It did not require anyone to contemplate the fact that the terrorists responsible for 9/11 were Muslims. It said nothing about whether Islam itself is to blame for global terrorism. It merely stated that 9/11 has had a lasting effect on many students, and ought to be reflected upon for a single moment, once a year.


And yet, in an email obtained by The Washington Post, Algadi expressed concerns that efforts to recognize 9/11 are sometimes thinly-veiled expressions of Islamophobia.

Believe it or now, Algadi was not alone in his opinion—a majority of student government representatives sided with him, voting down the resolution in a 36-23 vote this month. There would be no moment of silence at UMN on Sept. 11, 2016, if students had their way.

Really???
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...remembering-9-11-is-offensive-to-muslims.html

College Students Say Remembering 9/11 Is Offensive to Muslims
How a proposed moment of silence to honor 9/11 victims became the latest victim of the would-be despots of America’s campuses.
The everything-is-offensive brand of campus activism has struck a new low: Students at the University of Minnesota killed a proposed moment of silence for 9/11 victims due to concerns—insulting, childish concerns—that Muslim students would be offended.

Has it truly come to this? Is feelings-protection now such an overriding goal that completely unreasonable fears win out, even if they have no basis in reality? Can we not even have a single moment to recognize legitimate victims of terrorism without worrying that someone will feel marginalized on campus?

Theo Menon, a Minnesota Student Association representative and member of the College Republicans, realized that the university wasn’t doing anything to memorialize 9/11; on Oct. 6, he introduced an MSA proposal to do just that.

“The passing of this resolution might make a space that is unsafe for students on campus even more unsafe,” said Algadi. “Islamophobia and racism fueled through that are alive and well.”

To be clear, the resolution did not refer to Islam. It did not impugn Muslim students, or other Muslims. It did not require anyone to contemplate the fact that the terrorists responsible for 9/11 were Muslims. It said nothing about whether Islam itself is to blame for global terrorism. It merely stated that 9/11 has had a lasting effect on many students, and ought to be reflected upon for a single moment, once a year.

And yet, in an email obtained by The Washington Post, Algadi expressed concerns that efforts to recognize 9/11 are sometimes thinly-veiled expressions of Islamophobia.

Believe it or now, Algadi was not alone in his opinion—a majority of student government representatives sided with him, voting down the resolution in a 36-23 vote this month. There would be no moment of silence at UMN on Sept. 11, 2016, if students had their way.

Really???
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...remembering-9-11-is-offensive-to-muslims.html

Thinly-veiled Islamophobia? This is thinly-veiled sharia law

 

[iluvatar5150]

Thinly-veiled Islamophobia? This is thinly-veiled sharia law

This post is completely unveiled misunderstanding of what happened.

 

[redleghunter]

What do the students have to remember? 9/11 was 14 years ago; most of the students were barely past kindergarten when it happened. And they're right - it often IS used as a means of perpetuation anti-Islamic and anti-Arab bigotry. What purpose will this moment of silence really serve?

Nations remember their fallen, especially those who were innocent blood. There were civilian and rescue worker heroics on 9/11 and the days following. It was a large attack on by a foreign entity in modern times. However, mostly it is a time of reflection and remembrance for those who lost their lives that day. People going about their normal routines were murdered. It is a way for family members and fellow Americans to remember the fallen.

Just about every culture conducts remembrance ceremonies.

So are we to stop them because a specific ethnic or religious group might be offended? I don't think so. Japanese and German Americans are not offended when we have WWII remembrance ceremonies.

A certain 'brand' of Islam is at war with all Western society. If that brand is offended, so be it, they really should not be in our universities. The remainder of Islam not at war with the West should not be offended of a 9/11 remembrance ceremony or moment of silence. Why should they be? Some of these Muslims who went to work on 9/11 are among the fallen.

 

[redleghunter]

Did you read the article? There was concern that the even would be used to fuel anti-Islamic bigotry. If you read the source article (i.e. the one that the OP's article pulled from), there was also a fair amount of concern regarding the logistics of organizing it.

Where is this widespread or even hint of anti-Islamic bigotry? Is someone a bigot to Islam if they ask nicely that they stop killing innocent civilians?

I think a lot of this tension would cease if we actually heard from or saw in large numbers these peaceful Muslims out protesting the radical Muslim types.

I'm sorry, but our universities today are looking for tension where there is none and ignoring the large elephants in the room like illegal immigration which causes them to not get a job out of college.

Seems most of these universities are not preparing the young people for life as a responsibly working adult. Instead they are preparing them for organized Marxist-Socialist protests and Occupy movements. Note to college students....There is very little career opportunity and financial security in spending your lives going from one protest to another.

 

[redleghunter]

I agree with these students. I think they made the right decision.

Of course you do. Your generation only believes in free speech when it suits a liberal or radical agenda. The college students today fold like a cheap lawn chair when confronted with opposition and pressure. Beggars to your own demise. When will this self imposed masochism cease?

 

[redleghunter]

I'm sure some places did at the time, but most people alive during that time are probably dead now if you were just starting college in 1941 you would be about 92 now

You have to remember...these same students who nix the moment of silence (yes silence no one is praying or saying things) also approved a Muslim call to prayer to show solidarity with Islam.

My thinking is the younger adults don't know the true history of Islam. Probably because they don't teach it in the university these days.

 

[redleghunter]

If you don't like what the college is doing.. don't go, send your kids, or recommend sending people there. Let the free market eat it alive and spit it out into a empty building.

That's a good point. But some of the students and the parents who pay the bill for it don't see stuff like this happen until their kids are registered. But you are right, yet another university to strike off the list for my teenage sons.

 

[redleghunter]

I wonder if any college had a moment of silence in 2001.... or would they have been concerned about offending anyone then? I'm betting many places had a moment of silence back then perhaps even at this same college there was one. What has changed since then?

That and I wonder if these same schools had a moment of silence for the Paris terrorist attacks.

 

[JustOneWay]

Seems most of these universities are not preparing the young people for life as a responsibly working adult. Instead they are preparing them for organized Marxist-Socialist protests and Occupy movements. Note to college students....There is very little career opportunity and financial security in spending your lives going from one protest to another.

Sounds more like they don't teach what you wish they would learn. Perhaps this is your chance for you to get a job at a University and teach them what you want them to learn?

BTW, do you even know what they are teaching at college? Or are you guessing?