{"id":1934,"date":"2017-01-31T08:03:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T14:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2017-01-31T08:04:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T14:04:24","slug":"8-absolutely-crazy-things-happened-2016-make-community-private-college-look-better-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2017\/01\/8-absolutely-crazy-things-happened-2016-make-community-private-college-look-better-better\/","title":{"rendered":"8 absolutely crazy things that happened in 2016 that make community and private college look better and better"},"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: 594px;\">\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\/77254327\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 68.686869% 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\/77254327?et=aa9qXi_nRVxS9juA2unlHQ&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=CbkDWKKBUkWrlJ8OPDk97cd9hseuwZ2Md8odDZi6nlo=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"408\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>2016 was a banner year for fascism on American college campuses. It was the year of the snowflake \u2014 the delicate and fragile student who needed a \u201ctrigger warning\u201d before hearing an opposing idea and then demanded a \u201csafe space\u201d to recover when they did.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Though colleges have been bastions for the Left for some time, last year reached peak insanity. To pick out every instance of ridiculousness would mean a nearly endless list, so, here\u2019s 8 of the craziest things I\u2019ve covered here on my blog.<\/p>\n<p>TRIGGER WARNING: What you\u2019re about to read may lead parents to reconsider community college as a more viable option, and affordable, than your average Ivy League liberal utopia. Think of all the safe spaces you could buy with all that leftover money.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click CONTINUE for the list:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1753\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/653\/2016\/12\/george-washington-university-marvin-center-51.jpeg\" alt=\"george-washington-university-marvin-center-51\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/12\/george-washington-university-drops-u-s-history-requirement-history-majors\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">No U.S. History for history majors<\/a><\/p>\n<p>History majors at George Washington University in our nation\u2019s capital are no longer required to study United States history. It has been made optional to give students more flexibility, according to administrators.<\/p>\n<p>Even more alarming is how many other colleges are doing the same. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni has learned that more than two-thirds of the country\u2019s colleges and universities don\u2019t require history majors to take a U.S. History course in order to graduate.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, students are enrolling into such important areas as \u201cSoccer and History in Latin America,\u201d \u201cHip-Hop, Politics, and Youth Culture in America,\u201d or perhaps even \u201cLawn Boy Meets Valley Girl.\u201d Seriously, those are real courses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the obligation of higher education to ensure that all students, especially history majors, understand their own history,\u201d said ACTA\u2019s Eric Bledsoe.<\/p>\n<p>How else will we have a well-informed citizenry and future leaders?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click CONTINUE for more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<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: 594px;\">\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\/621888696\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 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\/621888696?et=oIv6q71_QkZyJIBg9zAbzw&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=REll19FIH73jroksDnJLl9SJ-F1y06VV05tyxBapW4E=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/11\/crayons-coloring-chocolate-and-cuddles-for-ivy-leaguers-traumatized-by-election\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Crayons, coloring, chocolate, and cuddles for Ivy Leaguers traumatized by election<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Students at the University of Pennsylvania organized an event they called \u201cBreathing Space\u201d to help each other recover from the trauma of the election of Donald Trump. Similar events have taken place at colleges all across America but this one at an Ivy League school, no less, takes the cake.<\/p>\n<p>A faculty director hosted the event and cleared the space of any television screens. Students were invited to be distracted from the news with coloring, crafts, snacks, and a small petting zoo. Daniel Tancredi spoke to The College Fix and gave them a glimpse from inside the event:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere were actual cats and a puppy there. There were sheets of paper available with black and white printed designs on them for students to color in. Essentially they looked like pages from a coloring book that were printed from a computer. They all had positive, feel-good messages on them. Students colored them in with colored pencils.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the most part, students just hung out and ate snacks and made small talk. Of course, that was in addition to coloring and playing with the animals. The election was mentioned a few times, though mostly in very timid and fearful tones. The event as a whole seemed to be an escape from the reality of the election results.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If that isn\u2019t pathetic enough, Tancredi said some Penn professors turned their classrooms into \u201csafe spaces\u201d and even canceled lessons and exams to further coddle the snowflakes. It\u2019s not all that surprising at a campus that voted 3612-375 in favor of Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>So, here\u2019s to the Class of Two Thousand and Offended. May their futures as aromatherapists be less triggering than reading the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click CONTINUE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1426\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/653\/2016\/10\/UWStout.jpg\" alt=\"UWStout\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\"><\/p>\n<p>3. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/10\/painting-of-american-indians-deemed-offensive-by-university-but-not-nude-photograph\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Painting of American Indians deemed offensive by university but not nude photograph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Stout decided to remove two historical paintings that featured American Indians and confine them to locked rooms on campus after deeming the frontier scenes potentially \u201charmful\u201d for students to view in plain sight.<\/p>\n<p>The paintings were commissioned by the federal government in the 1930s, and according to The College Fix, Wisconsin taxpayers forked over $26,000 to restore the artwork in 2012. Now, one painting will hang in a locked conference room where it will only be seen by appointment, and the other is relegated to archive storage.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a large poster of a naked woman continues to hang proudly in clear view of everyone on campus. It is part of a senior student\u2019s photography project titled \u201cUnrestricted.\u201d The female figure is posed on her knees and leaning backward. It has been hanging since the beginning of the Spring semester and will stay displayed for one year until it is replaced by another student\u2019s art project.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to college in America.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click CONTINUE for more absurdity:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<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: 507px;\">\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\/148504929\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 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\/148504929?et=xweRhcnvR6ZqH8yTWe2Dcw&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=FG8kdoZyWJj3ez5Tr80Lb1VCM6fdaFDGkqsFfvtwVPY=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"507\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>4. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/10\/annual-campus-tradition-canceled-because-it-might-trigger-body-issues\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Annual campus \u201cSpeedo Hike\u201d canceled because it might upset sedentary people<\/a><\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s Claremont College\u2019s outdoor club, On the Loose (OTL), canceled what was known as the Speedo Hike, where hundreds of students would show up in Speedos and climb nearby Mount Baldy. It was one of the most popular events on campus each year for obvious reasons. But because the attire \u2014 which is not required, by the way \u2014 could potentially exclude unfit individuals or even those with religious clothing requirements, it had to go.<\/p>\n<p>OTL explained the decision on their Facebook page:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By having the Speedo Hike as our official welcome event each year, we unintentionally sent the message that to participate in OTL, you must be fit and comfortable with your body image. The name \u201cSpeedo\u201d itself inherently implies bro-iness. OTL is so much more than just that, but many potentially interested students get turned off to our club each year because of Speedo Hike.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So at first, this highly popular event only \u201cexcluded\u201d some people, but by canceling it, it excludes EVERYONE. Now that\u2019s some liberal fairness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click CONTINUE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<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: 475px;\">\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\/543288536\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 125.052632% 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\/543288536?et=ovZ_0v-pR0tn7EQMe2ePvA&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=dZ2B1LFbRfuplCLmCm8w2-OzusDLiYNT7ZM51fWO8dU=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"475\" height=\"594\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>5. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/08\/free-speech-banned-more-orwellian-tactics-at-depaul-university\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Free speech banned: More Orwellian tactics at DePaul University<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conservative speaker Ben Shapiro was invited to the DePaul campus by its Young Americans for Freedom chapter only to be stonewalled by Vice President Bob Janis who announced, \u201cGiven the experiences and security concerns that some other schools have had with Ben Shapiro speaking on their campuses, DePaul cannot agree to allow him to speak on our campus at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, because Shapiro\u2019s previous speeches were taken over by protesters who purposely blocked exits and prevented people from attending the event, Janis is kowtowing and silencing the First Amendment rights of its students and guest speakers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can\u2019t keep their own students from assaulting people, so, therefore, they can\u2019t bring in speakers who disagree with the students,\u201d Shapiro said in response on The Kelly File.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this is how things are going to be from now on, free speech doesn\u2019t exist because it really creates an incentive for people to get violent at protests and get violent when speakers come to make sure the people they disagree with don\u2019t get to show up on campus anymore,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos tried to give a speech at DePaul in 2016 but was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/05\/depaul-black-lives-matter-activists-waging-war-against-free-speech\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">shut down by Black Lives Matter protesters<\/a>. They stormed the stage because they didn\u2019t like what they heard and one of them, a female, took a swing at Milo. Remember, love trumps hate, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click CONTINUE for more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<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: 594px;\">\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\/469928596\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 68.855219% 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\/469928596?et=3zU7TdegT-le5wpLUKo5fQ&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=ooMLCTWXRyD-Y46J6WUFa0z2tEpJgOFlukAeW06j1Nw=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"409\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>6. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/09\/how-college-safe-spaces-became-dangerous-for-jews\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">College safe spaces became dangerous for Jews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another looming threat on college campuses surged in 2016: anti-Semitism, and it wasn\u2019t by neo-Nazis but the so-called \u201ctolerant\u201d Left.<\/p>\n<p>Writing about the rise of anti-Semitism on American college campuses in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2016\/09\/15\/in-the-safe-spaces-on-campus-no-jews-allowed\/?tid=ss_fb-bottom\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Washington Post, Anthony Berteaux details <\/a>how safe spaces are extremely dangerous for Jewish people:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Arielle Mokhtarzadeh arrived at University of California, Berkeley, to attend the annual Students of Color Conference, she had no way of knowing that she would be leaving as a victim of anti-Semitism. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>For Mokhtarzadeh, an Iranian Jew at UCLA, her freshman year was punctuated by incidents of anti-Semitism that were both personal and met with national controversy. She was shocked during her first quarter in school when students entered the Bruin Cafe to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailybruin.com\/2015\/09\/16\/submission-regents-must-condemn-anti-semitism-to-ensure-safety-of-jewish-identity\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">phrase<\/a> \u201cHitler did nothing wrong\u201d etched into a table. Months later, Mokhtarzadeh\u2019s friend Rachel Beyda was temporarily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/03\/10\/opinions\/kosmin-anti-semitism-campus\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">denied<\/a> a student government leadership position based solely on her Jewish identity, an event that made news nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The campus was supposed to be her new home, her new safe space \u2014 so why didn\u2019t she feel that way? She went to the conference hoping for some answers.<\/p>\n<p>But on the first day there, she was horrified when the discussion became an attack on Israel \u2014 and soon devolved into attacks on the Jews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the course of what was probably no longer than an hour, my history was denied, the murder of my people was justified, and a movement whose sole purpose is the destruction of the Jewish homeland was glorified. Statements were made justifying the ruthless murder of innocent Israeli civilians, blatantly denying Jewish indigeneity in the land, and denying the Holocaust in which six million Jews were murdered,\u201d she said. \u201cWhy anyone in their right mind would accept these slanders as truths baffles me. But they did. These statements, and others, were met with endless snaps and cheers. I was taken aback.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mokhtarzadeh walked out on the verge of tears. \u201cIt was in that moment, during that conference, that I realized that every identity and every intersection of identity was to be welcomed and championed in progressive spaces \u2014 except mine.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She\u2019s not alone, though \u2013 because safe spaces aren\u2019t safe for anyone except whiny children and whiny professors who don\u2019t want to confront any ideas different from their own. They\u2019d rather deal in straw man arguments and logical fallacies that compete in a truly free marketplace of ideas.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out, progressives don\u2019t want to stick up for the actual persecuted after all. Those of us who have been paying attention aren\u2019t all that surprised.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click CONTINUE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1538\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/653\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-15-at-12.42.04-PM-1024x614.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-11-15 at 12.42.04 PM\" width=\"612\" height=\"367\"><\/p>\n<p>7. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/11\/college-offers-huge-group-hug-for-post-election-healing\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Huge group hug for post-election healing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rice University, the private college in Houston, Texas, was turned into a healing space in the days after Donald Trump was elected president by about 150 students who gathered to form one huge group hug to comfort one another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRice is and will continue to be a safe place for you,\u201d attendees were promised.<\/p>\n<p>An organizer shouted to the crowd:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou should be comfortable being yourself on this campus. Your voice is wanted, it is desired. Let\u2019s spend a few moments locking arms, holding hands, and feel like one big family. We are one Rice.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would seem these young folks didn\u2019t hear the word \u201cno\u201d enough as children, evidenced by the fact that they are still acting like children. Sometimes, circumstances don\u2019t work out in your favor and like the song says; you can\u2019t always get what you want. Unless it\u2019s a safe space. Rice has plenty of those, apparently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click CONTINUE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<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: 594px;\">\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\/1537356\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 74.410774% 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\/1537356?et=hJTaY7b-Qf1Ae62J57myaw&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=vfU-fXbpQ1VDDKhOCi7lzS6Ax7M5pCgAJ1BtXYfTNEE=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"442\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>8. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/08\/princeton-wipes-man-from-official-lexicon\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Princeton wipes \u201cman\u201d from official lexicon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Princeton University has scrubbed the word \u201cman\u201d from its official human resources guidelines. No longer is it proper to say, \u201cPlease get a clerk to man the front desk.\u201d Instead, the instructions are to say, \u201cPlease get a clerk to staff the front desk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGender-inclusive language is writing and speaking about people in a manner that does not use gender-based words,\u201d the HR guidelines states. \u201cGender binary is the traditional view on human gender, which does not take into consideration individuals who identify as otherwise, including and not limited to transgender, genderqueer, gender non-conforming, and\/or intersex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The guideline reinforces these definitions with multiple examples of replacing sex-based pronouns (like him, his, she, her) with the plural \u201ctheir.\u201d When in doubt, \u201celiminate the pronoun altogether,\u201d it commands. And now that every school has diversity offices, the lines drawn are even more concerning with special attention given to addressing transgender students with a completely new set of gender-neutral pronouns \u2014 \u201cze, zie and hir, ey, em, eir and emself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ridiculous notion that anyone would be subjected to learning a made-up language just to make another person feel accepted has no place in an institution of higher learning. Changing the rules for everybody to satisfy the few is not a win-win situation. It\u2019s an assault on liberty and personal freedom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click CONTINUE for the last one:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<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: 475px;\">\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\/543288522\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 125.052632% 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\/543288522?et=ogew8UzeQHJHNKl9mlRIRg&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=Ovq60olBbUIT-hfRZbIPGzN0a3Sxjetz0SWu1LZLosc=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"475\" height=\"594\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>9. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/08\/cal-state-students-seek-healing-after-a-conservative-speech-they-didnt-even-attend\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Cal State students seek healing after a conservative speech they didn\u2019t even attend<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one is going to have to be filed away in the \u201cWe\u2019re Doomed\u201d folder!<\/p>\n<p>The campus snowflake epidemic really blossomed this year, and perhaps the ridiculousness is most exemplified in the students at California State University who set up a \u201chealing\u201d space after a conservative gave a speech on campus. But there are two aspects that set this story apart from the rest: One, the speech had been given three months prior. Two, most, if not all, of the students that needed the emotional comfort DIDN\u2019T EVEN ATTEND THE SPEECH!<\/p>\n<p>The mere presence of Ben Shapiro on Cal State\u2019s campus was enough to send these special snowflakes into a frenzied meltdown. <i>National Review<\/i> posted a description of the \u201csafe space\u201d event:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On February 25th, our campus experienced immense hurt and trauma. Almost two months later, students are still feeling the emotional, mental, and physical effects that this event posed, and nothing has been done to facilitate our healing. How can we help each other heal and move forward? How were you affected emotionally, physically, psychologically?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You would think this is straight out of The Onion, or that you were stuck in The Twilight Zone. 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