Video: Yale Students Scream at Faculty Member for Violating Their Safe Space
Mob rule in the Ivy League New video has surfaced from last fall showing a group of students yelling at Nicholas Christakis, the former master of Yale University’s Silliman College, accusing him of promoting violence because he didn’t support one of their social-justice causes. In case you’re not familiar with Christakis, the story goes like this: Last fall, his wife sent out an e-mail criticizing Yale for telling students not to wear culturally insensitive Halloween costumes because she didn’t think it was the administration’s job to tell students what to wear, and then Christakis agreed with her and refused to apologize. The anger and protests that ensued over it eventually resulted in both of them having to resign last spring.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/440092/video-yale-students-scream-faculty-member-violating-their-safe-space
Read Shikha Dalmia on the threat safe spaces post to intellectual freedom here.
“It’s crystal clear that these students want the kind of safe space that threatens intellectual freedom. Their ideal safe space isn’t just a private area where they can go to be at peace with like-minded individuals. They believe that the entire campus is made unsafe—is made susceptible to violence—when people express views that clash with their far-left vision of social justice.” Source
The Following is a 4 part video series that captured the events in question. Enjoy and please like and share.
“You have created space for violence,” said one student. When Christakis said he disagreed with that statement, she replied, “You can’t.”
“It doesn’t matter whether you disagree,” one student replied.
Progressives or ____________…?
