Emory University Students "Scared" by Pro-Trump Messages Written in Chalk

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http://emorywheel.com/emory-student...h-administrative-response-to-trump-chalkings/

My first reaction to this was to laugh at students who were claiming to be scared by the fact that someone wrote pro-Trump messages around campus. Then I came to this quote and it became quite sobering.

"[Faculty] are supporting this rhetoric by not ending it"

Wow. So let me get this straight, we have people that politically disagree with an anonymous message writer and so want a higher authority to intervene and silence what they disagree with?

Aren't college campuses supposed to be places where freedom of thought is held out as sacred? I'm not a Trump supporter by any stretch but I am a supporter of free speech. And while Emory is a private institution and not a state actor, it has failed to instill the value of free and open discourse if this is the reaction students have.
 
Safe spaces, trigger warnings, public shamings, firings...the restriction of speech in college campuses (and there are too many examples like the ones in the OP to list) is equal parts frightening and disgusting. And this is what taxpayers are supposed to foot the bill for...
 
Another reason to think this country is heading down the toilet. Are college students these days still considered millennials? Or do I have another generation to gripe about?
 
The danger of this stuff is somewhat similar to the police related shootings, all we see/hear is a piece of what really happened. If this was just somebody telling some "self enlightened know it all" something they just don't want to hear then fine, I'll write some pro-Trump stuff on a sidewalk just to irritate them, but a very real problem, especially in the public schools is that bullying, and I mean real bullying goes on all the time either with the blessing of administrators, coaches, etc., and certainly without the knowledge and encouragement of parents. I don't blame anyone who has been bullied who maybe overreacts at a message that brings back memories of previous pain, but the "don't tell me anything I want to hear" crowd needs a good wake up call, IMO.
 
While i think it's an overreaction to be scared about it

i think it speaks to how some view supporters of said person and what they might do to them for disagreeing

i have personally gotten fake/alias facebook profiles send threats against me and my family for my words publicly against Trump. threats of violence and rape against my mom.

i don't take it too seriously and is someone that can internet somewhat easily but obviously doesn't know me by how they used some of said info.

america, 2016
 
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50PoundHead said:
I didn't think Emory admitted liberal students.
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Well liberal is relative to where a particular person is standing, is it not? For example I'm a few pounds overweight, not bad, but I need to lose about 20 or so. But if you stand me up between William Howard Taft and Michael Moore, I look like Kate Moss.
 
I'm not the only one getting threats against me and my family:

Conservative talk-radio host Erick Erickson says his anti-Donald Trump sentiments have generated deaths threats in recent weeks and led him to post around-the-clock security guards at his north Macon home.

The threats, he said, include words from his detractors who've voiced intentions "to come shut me down violently."

One man, Erickson said, threatened "to cut out my tongue and kill my wife and kids."

Last month, Erickson, a former Macon city councilman, made news when, in widely publicized remarks, he declared he would never vote for Trump, the Republican front-runner for the presidential nomination.

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Erickson thinks his on-air talk of "forming a third party should (Trump) be the Republican nominee" has further triggered the threats.

Erickson told The Telegraph on Friday that most claims of harming him and his family have come in the form of voicemail or calls to his radio show, which is broadcast weeknights on Atlanta's WSB-AM.

"It really has been crazy," the 40-year-old Erickson said.

Security guards, he said, provided by station management, have been posted at his house since late last week and have also traveled with him.

Erickson deemed the threats "aggravating. ... I've never had to do this before."

"A number of Trump supporters have been calling into my radio station, emailing and whatnot, making a number of threats, and they just escalated over the past several weeks to be death threats and putting my home address on the Internet," he told The Telegraph.

One caller, Erickson said, claimed he was going to "shoot me as I entered or exited my radio station."

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Erickson spoke out against Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney four years ago, but he says his words never inspired death threats.

"Threatening to kill people because you disagree with their political views is more Third World banana republic than American," Erickson said.

"I get called a lot of terrible things. ... It's a completely different thing to get play-by-play on how they're going to kill me and my family."

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Read more here: http://www.macon.com/news/politics-government/article68259992.html#storylink=cpy
 
These kids aren't really the problem. The problem is the adults who acquiesce to this embarrassing and fascist behavior.
 
This video is fairly long, but I thought it was a very interesting discussion in regards to free speech. There's some language that maybe isn't sfw.

[video]http://www.ora.tv/rubinreport/2016/3/24/milo-yiannopoulos-on-censorship-twitter-and-free-speech[/video]
 
goldfly said:
I'm not the only one getting threats against me and my family:

Conservative talk-radio host Erick Erickson says his anti-Donald Trump sentiments have generated deaths threats in recent weeks and led him to post around-the-clock security guards at his north Macon home.

The threats, he said, include words from his detractors who've voiced intentions "to come shut me down violently."

One man, Erickson said, threatened "to cut out my tongue and kill my wife and kids."
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Erickson complaining about death threats? Now that's funny.
 
Runnin said:
Erickson complaining about death threats? Now that's funny.
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In the black humor department, if someone shot Erickson in the head, would the bullet bounce off?

As per Emory, I was always under the impression it was a relatively conservative school, but I live up here in Minnesota, so I really have no idea.

I think the speech thing has gotten way out of hand. A lot of folks who are left-of-center (including the Prez) think discussion needs to be free and open and that kids really need to start appreciating people's right to say what's on their mind as long as it's not falsely yelling "fire" in a crowded theater.
 
50PoundHead said:
In the black humor department, if someone shot Erickson in the head, would the bullet bounce off?

As per Emory, I was always under the impression it was a relatively conservative school, but I live up here in Minnesota, so I really have no idea.

I think the speech thing has gotten way out of hand. A lot of folks who are left-of-center (including the Prez) think discussion needs to be free and open and that kids really need to start appreciating people's right to say what's on their mind as long as it's not falsely yelling "fire" in a crowded theater.
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Grew up in Georgia and never knew it had that reputation. Maybe it does to those left of Emory or the UMC.
 
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