Snowflake at $80,000/year private college "unsettled" and "angry, scared, and confused." Why? A repairman was to enter the Women and Trans Collective to repair the radiators. This wasn't "comfortable and safe" because it was a "safe space". Incredible. Yes, this really happened.

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[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

No, they're saying they're precious snowflakes who melt at the though of A MAN repairing the radiators. It's a SAFE SPACE! They can't live outside safe spaces because those evil MEN will, I don't know, misgender them or something. Crippling psychic injuries. They're fragile and overreact ridiculously to the slightest provocation, real or imagined.

When they said Bruce Jenner could become a woman but Rachel Dolezal couldn't become black.

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    [–]Chipit[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

    These people believe that contradicting them is harassment. When you have to actively seek out things to be victimized by, you are not a victim. You are an opportunist.

    The Evolutionary Advantages of Playing Victim. "Newly published research indicates that people who more frequently signal their victimhood are more likely to lie and cheat for material gain and denigrate others as a means to get ahead. Victimhood signaling is associated with numerous morally undesirable personality traits, such as narcissism, Machiavellianism, a sense of entitlement, and lower honesty and humility."

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      [–]Chipit[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

      That’s a good start. Now follow up with evidence! You cannot provide a claim and then expect us to supply your reasoning for it. Give us examples of those white collectives that are allowed on university campuses. Cite sources! And then, the hardest part, and perhaps one that cannot be done, show how it eclipses in importance the points in the article, and why focussing on some bizarre idea you just made up is important.

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        [–]Chipit[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

        Whataboutism is a propaganda technique first used by the Soviet Union, in its dealings with the Western world.[1] When Cold War criticisms were levelled at the Soviet Union, the response would be "What about..." followed by the naming of an event in the Western world.[2][3] It represents a case of tu quoque (appeal to hypocrisy),[4] a logical fallacy that attempts to discredit the opponent's position by asserting the opponent's failure to act consistently in accordance with that position, without directly refuting or disproving the opponent's initial argument.

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

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        it should be used sometimes like when it's "what about this example that disproves your point"?

        The left started calling it whataboutism and mocking it because people kept proving them wrong in arguments.

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          [–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

          Oh, now it's outright logical fallacies! LOL. The Guilt By Association Fallacy isn't an argument; it's an admission you have none.

          A guilt by association fallacy occurs when someone connects an opponent to a demonized group of people or to a bad person in order to discredit his or her argument. The idea is that the person is “guilty” by simply being similar to this “bad” group and, therefore, should not be listened to about anything.

          https://owl.excelsior.edu/argument-and-critical-thinking/logical-fallacies/logical-fallacies-guilt-by-association/

          For example: "The most telling moment in last night's [State of the Union] speech came after the president noted that "key provisions of the Patriot Act are set to expire next year." In response, notes the New York Times, "some critics in Congress applauded enthusiastically." If Osama bin Laden watched the speech, one imagines him applauding too."

          Source: James Taranto, "The al Qaeda Cheering Section", Best of the Web Today, 1/21/2004

          What's often called "McCarthyism" was a specific version of guilt by association in which an individual, organization, or idea was associated in some way with communism. An association was made between the target of McCarthyism and communism by linking both through some shared idea. For instance, in the 1960s some anti-communists attacked support for civil rights by pointing out that the Communist Party of the United States also supported the civil rights movement. It was then argued that supporting civil rights was tantamount to supporting communism.

          https://www.fallacyfiles.org/guiltbya.html

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