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The Washington Times reports a story about protesters on the UC Berkeley campus physically blocking white students from accessing a bridge while police stand by and watch:
Students at the University of California, Berkeley held a day of protest on Friday to demand the creation of additional “safe spaces” for transgender and nonwhite students, during which a human chain was formed on a main campus artery to prevent white students from getting to class.
The demonstrators were caught on video blocking Berkeley’s Sather Gate, holding large banners advocating the creation of physical spaces segregated by race and gender identity, including one that read “Fight 4 Spaces of Color.”
Protesters can be heard shouting “Go around!” to white students who attempt to go through the blockade, while students of color are greeted with calls of “Let him through!”
Students turned away by the mob are later shown filing through trees and ducking under branches in order to cross Strawberry Creek, which runs underneath the bridge.
The protests were a response to a Safe Space being moved from the fifth floor of a building down to the basement.
[Original version of this story had "UCLA"; corrected to: "UC Berkeley" -Ed.]
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @04:41PM
The desire to have a safe place where one is not under constant threat of attack is a universal human yearning.
It's 2016 in America, the most first-world of first-world nations. You are not "under constant threat of attack." You are paranoid, and if that paranoia affects your ability to function normally in society, it is a mental illness for which you should seek medical attention.
If you lived in some lawless shithole like Somalia, you might have a legitimate point about "constant threat of attack." The actual safety of society has numbed you to the definitions of real danger and real suffering, and the heavily biased news beams propaganda about minorities being shot by police officers or white people while ignoring the reality of who actually commits what little violent crime does happen in America. If the news were required to show a picture of every perpetrator of every murder and robbery and rape for an equal amount of time, you'd see that half of all murders are committed by black people and that Latinos make up a big chunk of the "white" criminal population. Instead, you only get statistics about victims, not perpetrators, and then you only get the stories that conform to a grossly mendacious narrative. As for people being persecuted because of sexuality, it boggles the mind that gay men like Tim Cook or George Kalogridis or Anderson Cooper occupy the summits of business and media sectors while people talk about being under "constant threat of attack."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @10:48PM
America
"America" is a hemisphere, not a nation.
Additionally, "first-world" is an anachronistic term that refers to hegemonic Cold War spheres of geopolitical influence.
Now, if what you mean is "technologically advanced", USA might qualify--if you don't look at what Joe Average has for access to e.g. healthcare or higher education or the internet.
If you mean "sociologically advanced" (that being completely subjective), it's clear that you know nothing about Iceland.
...or Germany.
Now, if what you mean by "first" is "has the most ridiculously large collection of weapons and uses them and threatens to use them in order to gain influence", -then- you'd be correct.
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