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but nobody needed a special quiet place where nobody bothered you

now I understand Austin is getting more and more of them

doesn't everybody have a bedroom?  There's your damn safe space.

Are they really implementing safe spaces at UT or is this just one of those things that old people write on their Facebook pages while shaking their fists at clouds in the sky?

Not sure they have literal quiet places on the UT campus but my understanding is that on campus free speech has more threats then in my era

Meh, the student body IS the snow flakes of Austin, but I'm glad to hear The University is trying to be a little less PC compared to the West Coast.

My daughter is a freshman (fresh-person?) this year at Texas. Other than their newfound love for undergrads, things seem to be functioning very much like they did in the early 90's when I showed up.

"Snowflake" is essentially a pejorative invented by right-wing trolls for empathetic people. "Social Justice Warrior" failed to gain traction, so the Russians  focus groups tried again. Now, it's been co-opted by everyone to indicate someone who complains about different things than they do.

Labels. Rather than use our unprecedented communication to explore and learn, we use it to scream our flatly stated opinion as loudly as possible while sticking derogatory adjective labels on anyone who doesn't immediately shout their unfettered agreement.

It's mostly 'cause ya'll are idiots who don't agree with me.

College should be a place where the student grows up a little facing various challenges life throws at them

not a place that shelters the student from the harsh realities of life

students need to learn that there is no God given right not to be offended

i'd like to take some folks to Afghanistan where little boys around 4 are removed from their families and given purposes... and around six they are pitted against each other in a single fight that will alter the direction of their fates forever, the winner being trained as a fighter and heralded as a savior, hero, and future of the tribe while the loser becomes a sex slave to the elders, performing... what they perform... and washing clothes, making dinner, cleaning up- and held in lowest of esteem by the community. 

that's fair as they see it.  but we're to see that practice as 'culture' and we're to accept it else be condemned a bigot.  

some dude in Boston wants to come down hard on some fella on the southern border trying to divert coyotes from traversing his land while some guy in the mid atlantic thinks shooting 'at' in effort to repel those people seeking to illegally enter the country is okay while that same border property owner says "why? ol' julio is a pretty good guy.  I just don't want him on my property". 

we got a pretty good and widely accepted contract with society in this Country, and we've held it together for a long time.  I'm tired of folks set to disrupt the simple concept that got us here which is 'live and let live' which is a spin off of 'do unto others' and not too far from 'mind your own damn business and leave mine alone', all of which are far more noble than "I demand ____!!! (oh, and by the way i'm going to be needing a safe space too)."... 

y'all all alright by my accounts.  we may have differing opinions on things, but we got enough regard for each other to see it just as a difference. 

anyway... yo @utee94 , I'm done 'fucking off' now... anything else you'd like me to do? heheheheeeeeee!!!!!  

This thread's taking an interesting turn.

As far as the fucking off @Drew4UTk , I'd say, WELL DONE.

I'll back up a little bit and offer what might be a slight correction to droog's "history of the term snowflake" because its roots run a bit deeper.  First, it was a taunt thrown at younger people-- mostly millennials-- by older people (mostly baby boomers), to insult them about their perceived need to be viewed as unique and special.  You know, the stereotypes that millennials are the "everyone gets a trophy" generation and the "I won't take that job because it's beneath me, so I'll just live in my parents' basement" generation.

It sort of morphed after that, since a lot of the old people using it were right wingers, and a lot of the millennials being targeted by it were left wing, and it became a taunt used by a broad group of older righties to target the "entitlement" they felt was present among the younger lefties.

And then after that, as droog said, it morphed again into "you think differently than I do and you are therefore a snowflake."  Labels are grand, aren't they?  Especially when they don't even have a distinct, unique meaning.

Anyway, that's just my observation.  It's not written down in a history book or anything.  But it could be!