I just want to see a group of white students with enough guts to say "yes, we support this - on the condition that there is also a white-only space". That way, the white students would no longer have to worry about offending the overly-sensitive blacks, and could concentrate on their studies.

The Asians, Hispanics, and other groups may also want their own spaces. Hey, we could probably solve this by allowing sororities and fraternities to discriminate on the basis of race.

Yep, we are surely beyond racism now...

In the interests of ending institutionalized racism we must institutionalize racism. Ahh. Now I understand.

Nothing new here -- this was true in the 1970's too. At the very same time as barriers between the races were falling, black students in California were marching for black power and separate facilities.

Back then, one observer summed it up something like this: "Black bigots are calling for segregated facilities... which is what white bigots want. In this day and age, isn't it great to see blacks and whites working alongside for the same cause?"

Where's Jim Crowe when you need him?
Look how diverse our campus is: over there is where the black students go to class and live, over that way is where the Asians are, behind us is Native American land, we've made sure the whites are all commuters.

Funny!

They want "separate but equal" spaces (guess schools will be next).

And of course they must not read "dead white men" stuff and not be subjected to grades (see Ca.'s recent "you do not have to pass High School to graduate High School" law).

No wonder they are pushing for high minimum wages since that's their future.

Prophecy from Fred Reed...

All you have to do is coddle some people and they will kill themselves to help you hold them down.

Afrikan Student Union

Maybe we should, oh, I dunno, round them up and ship them back to Afrika? then they can experience real oppression, up close and personal.

Been tried already IRA. Liberia.

Nigger only spaces? It's an interesting idea. How black do you have to be though? Proper sooty black, or is Obama style cafe latte brown good enough?

So does every nationality (or even every brown nationality) get a safe space? Do we get one for Indians (both types) and Mongolians, and Chinese and Arabs and and and and
I'm going into the construction business.

a random guy: "I just want to see a group of white students with enough guts to say "yes, we support this - on the condition that there is also a white-only space"."

Nope, that won't work; that would be quickest way for whites to get kicked off campus - and no refund on the tuition!

I suspect that most students - of all races, colors, creeds, etc. - are just trying to do their best, get through their classes, learn something, and then get the diploma which is suppose to be the credentials to get a paying job all before the hysterical lynch mob comes after them.

What is needed is for school administrators to consider making higher education about education - not liberal ideas of indoctrination. But, don't hold your breathe waiting for that to happen.

25 years ago. I curl up with a book in an armchair in a student lounge area. Half an hour later, barely registering my surroundings, three angry women are standing over me and telling me I have to leave. I asked - quite reasonably I thought - why? They were conducting a women's self defence class in the (frosted glass plus gauze curtains) room nearby, and said my presence was making people uncomfortable. I tried to say I wasn't interfering and didn't even know a class was happening, asked who had complained so I could apologise, and the response was "do you want us to get someone from the Student Union to eject you?"

I was too young then and walked rather than make more of a scene. I remember being furious to the point of tears. I also got over it without making a complaint. My life wasn't scarred by it :)

The people who harangued me then are likely lecturers now. So good luck in fixing that. The long march has been done.

Ten years from now, distance learning and open source universities will have made this all irrelevant. At that point we can simply build walls around the "safe spaces", throw them food now and then, put in windows and charge people a few bucks to come look. When the safe-spacers complain, we can say, "Hey, you marginalized yourself. Now you have a useful purpose -- you serve as an object lesson to the rest of society."

Maybe it's all part of a plan to divide and conquer.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429676/obama-race-relations-lousy

Judging from the bitter state of U.S. race relations today, it seems to have advanced more than many thought it might when they ridiculed candidate Obama’s community-organizing past as something only a 98-pound weakling would do. “I don’t even know what it is,” sneered Rudy Giuliani in 2008.

What it was, simply put, was important ground-level training in how to stoke dissatisfaction and spread activism across the country, one community at a time. Practiced on a national scale — and combined with a liberal academic’s understanding of Critical Theory’s plan to replace the values of the “dominant group” with the “counter-narrative” of “subordinate groups” — the project meant ensuring that different ethnic groups became politically active while remaining unassimilated.

The fact that the president doubled down on his celebration of “diversity” in his speech last night made it clear that he’s not abandoning this narrative in the twilight year of his administration, a race to the end that promises even more damage.