In an ironic twist of political correctness, the University of Illinois has now felt it necessary to warn students and faculty that its sexual harassment training might feature “triggering” words or images that might “upset” people.
The University of Pittsburgh’s Student Government Board held a public meeting on Tuesday to discuss the traumatizing visit the night before from dangerous homosexual and Breitbart Tech Editor Milo Yiannopoulos, during which students described themselves as feeling “hurt” and “unsafe.”
The campus censorship epidemic continues at British and American universities.
Two conservative law professors at Georgetown have adopted the rhetoric of the regressive left in their objection to post-mortem critiques of the late Justice Antonin Scalia from liberal colleagues, claiming conservative law students are “traumatized” by such critiques.
The so-called “safe space” was one of the defining issues of free speech at universities in 2015, as its very concept attracted global ridicule. However, its coup de grâce is now well under way.
As we’ve previously reported at Breitbart Tech, social justice warriors are currently engaged in an ongoing effort to spread their ideology in the open source community, a pillar of meritocracy and innovation that underpins many of the everyday tech products we take for
In a recently released press statement, Oberlin College President Marvin Krislov said he has made no plans to respond to the 14 pages of demands submitted to his office by a group of black students.
The Liberal Canadian government, led by Justin Trudeau, has again made a mockery of itself.
After the University of Missouri at Columbia was thrust into the national spotlight by a series of protests by black students that were vigorously supported by a number of faculty members, new enrollment figures have “decreased noticeably.”
A group of developmentally delayed students who were visiting Lebanon Valley College (LVC) in Pennsylvania were whisked away by their parents from the school’s dining hall when a group of student protesters, demanding a more inclusive campus and sensitivity training for faculty, began shouting obscenities.
The heated battle over cultural insensitivity at Yale University has a new victim: Science.
Author, lawyer, and legal commentator Stuart Taylor gently explains one of the most tragic and painful causes of the campus eruptions — the progressives’ self-serving demand for “affirmative action.”
On Tuesday, Western Washington University (WWU) called off its classes on its main campus in Bellingham, WA, due to media posts that President Bruce Shepard called “hate speech targeted at Western students of color.”
Four centuries after white Christians landed in Jamestown and settled what would later become America, a report reveals that white Christians are now a minority in the nation their forbearers settled.
Starbucks may no longer be a safe space to have a conversation with a friend, not unless you’re prepared to be called out by PC minders who might be eavesdropping nearby.
An anti-racism rally planned at the University of Colorado, Boulder, to show solidarity with University of Missouri black activists was cancelled because the protest organizers are white. However, a check of one of the event planner’s Facebook page reveals that isn’t the case.
An outspoken Muslim journalist who advocates a “sexual revolution” in the Islamic world has reportedly been “no platformed” by a Student Union (SU). The students deny this, claiming officers were “tired” and preferred “dialogue” to allowing her to speak alone. Despite
America is again engulfed in a barrage of grievance-driven tumult brought to us by victim-focused racial identity demagogues, who have long-preferred theatricality over reality. Although the flood of media attention on purported incidences of racism at the University of Missouri has forced the school’s president to resign, it also overshadowed another vexing social malady.
“CNN Tonight” anchor Don Lemon said college students “should not be coddled by retreating into so-called ‘safe spaces’ because they’re afraid of having their feelings hurt. If you’re afraid of having your feelings hurt, don’t leave your house” in an audio
On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times asked students to submit stories in response to the question: “Is your campus a safe place?”
A twisted string of allegations about racism on the campus of Yale University led hundreds of students to protest Monday, just days after a conference on the future of free speech was disrupted by allegations of racism and two weeks after protests against alleged racism and cultural insensitivity were held over student Halloween costumes.
As Yale students demand greater administrative oversight to sustain the “safe spaces” on their campus, University of Oklahoma professor David Deming is denouncing the threats inherent to college campuses and seeking the ability to carry a gun for self-defense.
The president of the University of Missouri, Tim Wolfe, is out, forced to resign by protests over his allegedly inadequate response to racist incidents on campus.
Modern Educayshun, a short film by Neel Kolhatkar, is a hilarious take on social justice and Oppression Olympics culture, and we urge you to watch it. https://youtu.be/iKcWu0tsiZM It’s the followup to his short film #Equality, which enjoyed over a million views and has been
Over the weekend, 32 African-American members of the University of Missouri-Columbia football team joined a group of students staging a hunger strike to protest purported acts of racism on campus.
A statue of founding father and writer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson is sparking debate at the University of Missouri, with some students demanding that the statue be removed over Jefferson’s “offensive” history as a slave owner.
A student group at Williams College disinvited a conservative speaker after students protested the invitation.
A high profile student activist who has campaigned against “rape culture” has resigned from all political position and barred herself from National Union of Students (NUS) events and safe spaces because she is “unsafe.” She said she had “failed to
I am sufficiently “dangerous” to the “safety” of University of Manchester students that I have to be surrounded by security and any event that features me must be ticketed and the number of seats restricted, according to that university’s Student
A group of students at Wesleyan University are demanding “safe space” for students of color and declaring they intend to “dispose of” copies of the school newspaper found on campus until their demands are met. The demands arose after the paper ran an opinion piece critical of the Black Lives Matter movement last week.
For decades, academia has been stereotyped as a bastion of left-wing dogma. That may be about to change. Hailed by Steven Pinker as “one of the most important papers in the recent history of the social sciences,” a team of leading
How can Twitter improve its sluggish growth? The company’s stock plummeted after interim chief executive Jack Dorsey said he was “not satisfied” with current user growth figures following the release of Twitter’s Q2 earnings report on Tuesday.
A Northwestern University professor was accused of retaliation and investigated after students claimed an article she had written had a “chilling effect” on students’s ability to report sexual misconduct.
Kirsten Powers’ new book The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech surveys the political landscape of the past couple years and finds something new to worry about. A self-described liberal, Powers writes that the “illiberal left” is trying to dominate the discussion on campus, online and in the media through intimidation. In our discussion, Powers suggests there is an authoritarian impulse at play, one that has been gaining steam in the broader culture.
Confirming the worst fears of users, Reddit CEO Ellen Pao has told NPR that she does not want the site to be a “completely free-speech platform”. Her comments followed last week’s introduction of new ‘anti-harassment’ policies on the link-sharing site that
Equity feminist and former philosophy professor Christina Hoff Sommers is not a particularly threatening figure. But student activists at Oberlin and Georgetown colleges, where Sommers recently spoke, were insistent that her presence on their campuses posed a threat to the student
Judith Shulevitz, writing in the New York Times, reports that infantilized college students are indulging their need for insulation by demanding “safe spaces” where any speech that could hurt their feelings would be forbidden.
