{"id":14726,"date":"2017-02-21T12:14:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T17:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/?p=14726"},"modified":"2017-02-21T12:14:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T17:14:50","slug":"college-students-launch-silent-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2017\/02\/college-students-launch-silent-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"College students launch a silent protest over&#8230;  what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 498px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/157197113\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 69.076305% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/157197113?et=Jx18lIycR-Ryq_ZXynztNw&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=seIXEBHGoh3nbCBjPkAW1aI4dYdduPuIo9Ge_hOSpKo=\" width=\"498\" height=\"344\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is so stupid. \u00a0College students at the\u00a0University of Cincinnati recently started<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsrecord.org\/news\/students-hold-silent-protest\/article_0f554ba0-f3fb-11e6-a13f-fbcd43a59bc4.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u00a0a silent protest<\/a>\u00a0over the \u201cstate of the nation.\u201d <a class=\"external decorated-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsrecord.org\/news\/students-hold-silent-protest\/article_0f554ba0-f3fb-11e6-a13f-fbcd43a59bc4.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The News Record<\/a> reports:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The protest was not targeted toward a specific issue or stance, but rather toward the state of the nation and acts of racism, sexism, xenophobia and other forms of bigotry perpetrated by President Trump\u2019s administration and his supporters since the election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, they don\u2019t have anything specific to protest. \u00a0They just are mad and aren\u2019t going to take it anymore. \u00a0The piece continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe idea of a silent protest was\u00a0to take up space\u00a0and\u00a0force people to witness our experiences\u00a0without creating room for debate or differing opinions,\u201d said\u00a0<span data-scayt-lang=\"en_US\" data-scayt-word=\"Anahita\">Anahita<\/span>\u00a0Sharma, a fourth year liberal arts student.<\/p>\n<p>While debate can be helpful and constructive, there is a time and place for it, and sometimes it is inappropriate, according to [first-year psychology and political science student\u00a0<span data-scayt-lang=\"en_US\" data-scayt-word=\"Mashal\">Mashal<\/span>] Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed was also critical of the Delta Tau Delta, a fraternity that was tabling on the other side of\u00a0<span data-scayt-lang=\"en_US\" data-scayt-word=\"MainStreet\">MainStreet<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>While the fraternity had most likely not planned for the activists to be there, it was disrespectful for them to play pop music\u00a0over the demonstration, said Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen people are expressing their hurt and pain, it\u2019s not the place to do so because\u00a0you are essentially telling them that they are not validated in their feelings,\u201d said Ahmed. \u201cIt\u2019s not easy when holding protests to express that to people passing by.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Isn\u2019t it hilarious how liberals don\u2019t want room for\u00a0differing opinions? \u00a0When did Americans get so whiny? \u00a0when did Americans forget that free speech was important\u2026 but it might be important to actually know what the heck you are talking about!!<\/p>\n<p>College students are wanting to be perceived as protesters even if there\u2019s nothing to be upset about. \u00a0Especially, since as\u00a0<a class=\"external decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/2017\/02\/20\/college-students-silently-protest-the-state-of-the-nation\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">PJ Media<\/a>\u00a0says, \u201cThe group didn\u2019t have anything specific to protest, perhaps because they\u2019re going to the University of Cincinnati, where they can afford the in-state tuition of\u00a0<em>only<\/em>\u00a0$28,002 per year. That\u2019s still\u00a0half the median income in the United States annually, so most can\u2019t afford it \u2014\u00a0a clear sign they\u2019re oh-so-oppressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t sound oppressed to me!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When did Americans get so whiny?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":14727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>College students launch a silent protest over... what?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When did Americans get so whiny?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2017\/02\/college-students-launch-silent-protest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"College students launch a silent protest over... what?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When did Americans get so whiny?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2017\/02\/college-students-launch-silent-protest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Bristol Palin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-02-21T17:14:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/156\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-21-at-10.26.32-AM.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"479\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bristol Palin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bristol Palin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2017\/02\/college-students-launch-silent-protest\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2017\/02\/college-students-launch-silent-protest\/\",\"name\":\"College students launch a silent protest over... what?\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-02-21T17:14:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-02-21T17:14:50+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/#\/schema\/person\/ad6f9fac0a5a8263d8e246079e288a2d\"},\"description\":\"When did Americans get so whiny?\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2017\/02\/college-students-launch-silent-protest\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2017\/02\/college-students-launch-silent-protest\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2017\/02\/college-students-launch-silent-protest\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"College students launch a silent protest over&#8230; 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