Univ Michigan - Students demand a "No White People" space

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A student activist group at the University of Michigan is demanding campus officials provide them with “a permanent designated space on central campus for Black students and students of color to organize and do social justice work.”

The demand is one of several lodged by “Students4Justice,” who this month ratcheted up campus demonstrations to pressure administrators to cave, complaining in a newly launched petition that President Mark Schlissel has snubbed their demands.

The clamor for a segregated space for students of color to organize social justice efforts comes even as the public university builds a $10 million center for black students in the center of campus.

In their demands, students explain why the new black student center is not enough, “because we want a space solely dedicated to community organizing and social justice work specifically for people of color.
 

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Martin Luther King, Jr is crying right now. He fought so hard for equal rights and to end segregation and these idiots are signing petitions and protesting to bring segregation back.
 

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Just put in a Trader Joe's across the street and the whites will leave you alone.
 

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Something call "Students4Justice" (or future BLM members) is wanted segregation? Oh my....that is funny.

The university president is doing the kids a favor by snubbing their requests.
 

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People are free to ask for whatever stupid thing that they want and others are free to pay attention to it and be outraged by it.
I'll worry about when others start to take it seriously.
 

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Next they'll be demanding separate water fountains?
Separate bathrooms, separate restaurants, etc ..........and yet still complain about not being treated as equals. Of course there are plenty of white people who would be happy with this, too.
Let's face it, we, as a whole, have listened to leadership long enough to let leadership purposefully keep us apart for their own power trip purposes.
 

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People are free to ask for whatever stupid thing that they want and others are free to pay attention to it and be outraged by it.
I'll worry about when others start to take it seriously.
The fact that safe spaces exist at all -- even in Tuscaloosa....I've seen the signage with my own eyes -- is evidence that people do take this sort of stuff seriously.

I have no problem barring profanity or epithets (all epithets, not just those applying to gays or non-Caucasians) on college campuses. Beyond that, there should be no protected ideas or spaces.

Every single idea -- conservative, liberal, male, female, gay, bisexual, straight, Republican, Democrat, black, white, Asian, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Wiccan, Atheist, whatever -- should be subject to question and challenge.

That's the only way the best ideas prevail...and in the end, we all benefit.
 
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The fact that safe spaces exist at all -- even in Tuscaloosa....I've seen the signage with my own eyes -- is evidence that people do take this sort of stuff seriously.

I have no problem barring profanity or epithets (all epithets, not just those applying to straight non-Caucasians) on college campuses. Beyond that, there should be no protected ideas or spaces.

Every single idea -- conservative, liberal, male, female, gay, straight, Republican, Democrat, black, white, Asian, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Wiccan, Atheist, whatever -- should be subject to question and challenge.

That's the only way the best ideas prevail...and in the end, we all benefit.
I'm pretty much with you except for barring certain words. I have no problem punishing harassing or other such behaviors.
 

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