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from the whatever-happened-to-DEsegregation? dept.
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: 3, Informative) by Arik on Sunday October 30 2016, @01:19AM
No, the point stands perfectly well without the aside. The 'safe space' is defined as an area where we prohibit... a bunch of things already prohibited everywhere else. Oh, and also 'hate speech.' The approach itself, the careful packaging of irrelevancies so that the core demand can be treated as a minor afterthought, reveals conscious deception.
Anyway you want examples? Melissa Click is a great one. And don't tell me she's one bad apple, because she's received and continues to receive very broad support and in fact astonishingly enough she landed another job at another university almost immediately as a result. Her behavior was exactly in line with what they teach and there are plenty more examples of it in action. Milo Yiannopoulos has been assaulted by them, Lauren Southern has been assaulted by them, many people have been attacked by them.
Attacking Milo Yiannopoulos on his stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unoBT8Te13g
Attacking Lauren Southern outside a venue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-IFcCY0m3E
It's not just high profile lecturers who get hit the most by this though, it's their fellow students who may have to coexist with them for years, it's the poor janitors and professors that have to deal with them every day at work, it's random people that have to deal with this in their day to day lives.
This is a good example. Notice that this is NOT a case where someone was doing something they knew was wrong and got caught at it. This lady recorded herself. She posted it herself. She thinks she's being virtuous here (because that's what her professors taught her to think.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpvnO0p9KvU
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 30 2016, @10:24PM
> Attacking Milo Yiannopoulos on his stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unoBT8Te13g [youtube.com]
She grabbed the microphone and danced in his face. You consider that violence?
Are you really that fragile?
> Attacking Lauren Southern outside a venue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-IFcCY0m3E [youtube.com]
She grabs something and then the video is mysteriously black. What did she grab? Was it hers to begin with?
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpvnO0p9KvU [youtube.com]
There wasn't any contact in there at all. And you consider that violence? WTH?
Seems like all of your examples more of the same as the original video - because in your heart of hearts you absolutely know that SJWs are all hypocrites so anything that might possibly be construed to prove that becomes definitive proof. But really, if those are your best examples of hypocrisy, you've pretty much disproved your entire thesis.