So, what do you all think about universities in the United States all of a sudden introducing safe places? It's for people that get offended or "traumatized" (as they referred to it) because others that may disagree with their point of view or their certain prejudices. Which then has them go to these "safe places" so they can be comforted. What do I think? Those people need to be expelled. College, in my eyes, actually have caused more people to be dumber than before they went to college. My the world has changed.
Just google "safe place" or "safe space".
 

bill1024
I feel micro aggression big time in this thread.

Micro? If I gave my opinion on these useless mouth breathers that are wasting oxygen I would be banned. The world sucks, stuff happens, then you die. They are just too self entitled and stupid to figure out the world is rough and they will not get everything their way. Unless you live in California, the laws there may be more their style.

bill1024
When you're taught your a special little snowflake and everyone gets a trophy, you don't have to get the correct answer in a math equation. 3+3=5 is close enough.
This is what you get. Special little snowflakes that can not handle when someone else has a different opinion than they do. Snowflakes have a meltdown.

Even basic training has gotten "softer" than it was 13 years ago when I joined.

Safe Places LOL. Safe places are a frame of mind. It wouldn't surprise me if some colleges start hiring somebody to wear teddy bear costumes giving out hugs as a full time position. College kids are way too soft.

Shockjockey
Safe Places LOL. Safe places are a frame of mind. It wouldn't surprise me if some colleges start hiring somebody to wear teddy bear costumes giving out hugs as a full time position. College kids are way too soft.

I'm going to need a job after the military..

A couple branches of the military now allow trainees/recruits to bring their cell phone into training so they can call home on the weekends. I've only been in close to 9 years, and had to get a calling card and 10 minutes lol. Things changed quick, and the military definitely caters to a weaker crowd just so they can get the numbers they need.

Spare the rod, spoil the child, not taught respect, reasonably, a good attitude "aka The Golden Rule" and these children then raise their own kids, history is doomed to repeat.....
 
I hear "Educated dummies!" for too often these days..........
 
"Gravy, Im greatful, Im just a old fashioned dumb country boy!!"

The Past: Someone calls you Cupcake in Bootcamp, you just suck it up.......
Moderndays: When you call someone "Cupcake" in Bootcamp, someones Mommy and Lawyers show up!
 
We even see WWIII, were just screwed......

candle_86
a joke is what they are, and someone needs to tell these kids they arn't special. Any taking a liberal arts degree should be told 10% of you may get a job, the rest of you line up at McDonalds your future is a fry cook. They need to be told in the real world there are winners and losers, and with their attitudes they are loosing rapidly. The world doesn't care if you placed 15th, they don't care that your mom told you you can do anything, and these 25yo children need to learn that lesson, no one cares if you think your special, in truth your just another idiot and the only people that care about you are your family, to me and everyone else your nothing but a random moron asking for stuff you havn't earned. 
 
Thats the message to give these children in collage. 

Candle, everything you said there, that's something mom and dad were supposed to teach them when they were younger, and then a little more while they were in their educational youth. Apparently it didn't click.

 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Nereus, Milo Yiannopoulos also stated something similar to what you stated, but in a much simpler form, stating that students now come out "dumber" than before they went to school.

I'm ashamed to be part of this age group (as the birth years end in mid-1990s and I'm a 1996 baby). We got trophies for just participating in sports...I think having a father and family who's in law enforcement definitely kept me from going down the same track as majority of these kids today because we saw/heard about the evil in the world and what it's really like even at a young age. My brother and I were never catered to or babied, if we wanted something we didn't just "get" it, we had to earn it, and because of this, we learned to cherish the things we had and got upset when people received the same awards/trophies/etc. as us even though their work ethic and effort was extremely different than ours (when we worked hard and they didn't...just like group projects in school where one person does all the work but the slacker gets the same credit). I had actually asked my dad one day, "What'd I get a trophy for? I didn't even play this game." because why should I get a trophy if I just sat there? The problem today is that everybody EXPECTS a reward no matter what they do or don't do. You think this computer in my sig was given to me? Nah. I did the research (and lots of it) by browsing forums, articles, Youtube videos, etc., earned the money to buy the parts BY WORKING, and built it. I guess that's too difficult for some people.
 
At my elementary school, we used to be able to play tag, kickball, tackle (yes, tackle) football over in the courtyard, etc. and now you can't even mention that or someone gets "triggered" because they could possibly be injured by that .1% chance of falling/getting hit wrong or by losing. When we moved, my brother's principal at his school actually let kids start bringing their Nintendo DS's, etc. for recess rather than exercising and essentially banned all "competitive" sports/activities because feelings could get hurt if a child lost.
 
I say forget your safe spaces, gun free zones, "protesting" a fair election (there's a reason why the EC was established and the popular vote wasn't give priority), etc. and suck it up pretty much. There's people who come from worse off places or life situations and have MORE success and backbone/strength to move on than a lot of these people who need a "safe space".

Im ashamed to say that I want funding taken away from any educational institution, but I must admit, I really like the pushback some of the lawmakers are going for now. 
 
 
In Iowa, a small group is pushing to get a dollar amount that the colleges have spent on therapy dogs, safe spaces, coloring books, cry rooms, etc. Then they cut that funding from the schools budget next year. I wonder how much all this actually costs? But now that colleges have gotten the tuition to X even if they were to immediately cut out all those totally unnecessary programs, they wouldn't drop tuition a thin dime.
 
The more I think about this, it has been several years since I last attended a college class. Are they doing this everywhere? Meaning lower cost colleges like tech schools. Now that I think about it, I don't really hear anything about that, only the overly rediculous priced colleges doing this stuff.

Dukman
LoL.  Can't wait for the zombie hoards.   Of course all those idiots will barely slow them down.  

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Hell Yea

Tweaked
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quote from "Star Trekkin" lyrics
 
"There's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow;
there's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, Jim.

Ah! We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill;
we come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, men."