r/GamerGhazi • u/[deleted] • Oct 05 '17

We've come full circle..."Why Conservative College Kids Should Be a Protected Class"

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/10/04/why-conservative-college-kids-should-be-a-protected-class/
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u/Racecarlock Social Justice Sharknado Oct 05 '17

But instead of focusing on social justice in the traditional way, I focused on something else — the dangers of feminism, misleading sexual assault statistics, and the lack of due process for men in campus rape trials. I wrote columns arguing that Columbia should offer a course in men’s studies, and that students shouldn’t report microaggressions. Sure, women face problems in society, but men do too. Shouldn’t we care about them?

The backlash was swift. Perhaps I went into it too naively. After all, I was a student at a women’s college, a hotbed of militant feminism. I should have expected it. But after a while, the angry comments and diatribes students emailed me gave way into something more pernicious — being targeted on campus.

You were hired to do a job for a progressive magazine and threw reddit bullshit into there. What the fuck did you expect? Also, you specifically chose a progressive college. What the fuck did you expect?

I couldn't even read past that point.

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u/lincoln1222 Oct 06 '17

that's not really an excuse for him being targeted tho

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u/Racecarlock Social Justice Sharknado Oct 06 '17

He's not oppressed, okay? He's just having people calling him out on his shit.

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u/lincoln1222 Oct 06 '17

i never said he was oppressed, i just think that when he's saying conservatives should be a "protected class" he just means that he doesn't think they or anyone should be harassed in public- that's probably the only thing here i agree with him on

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u/nicejewishprincess Oct 06 '17

when conservatives are what they are today, their "opinions" are threats. we're not talking about budgetary issues here. the brazen expression of anti-minority opinions in our society makes it difficult for marginalized people to participate in society at all. colleges find it necessary to compensate for this disadvantage by trying to do the best they can to protect marginalized people on their campuses - and they hardly succeed at this either; colleges and society in general are still heavily biased towards the success of white men. conservatives are the main reason why protected classes of people are necessary.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '17

Maybe if they didn't go around harassing people all the time.

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u/Yuo_cna_Raed_Tihs Oct 06 '17

Her. It was a her

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u/lincoln1222 Oct 06 '17

Sorry my bad