Yale University Students Protest Halloween Costume Email (VIDEO 3)
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN mostly uses it as a reference point or negative example in debates about campus politics and online codes of conduct.
What it is
A short FIRE-published video of Yale students confronting a faculty member over a Halloween costume email in 2015. It documents a heated campus protest.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2015 to 2016.
What Hacker News said
Cites Tenhundfeld · 2015-12 · on “This Is Not a Day Care. It’s a University”
I think this is the video: [this video] Along with some NYT coverage on this general topic: [LINK] This issue of students complaining about trigger warnings and the need for safe spaces certainly seems to be increasingly prevalent, but that could just be due to the media giving it more attention.
Critical cat-dev-null · 2016-01 · on “Matz: I cannot accept “the CoC” for the Ruby community”
Yeah, me too. -1. There is legitimate trolling, harassment, drama and d!ck moves that need to be handled with decency, common-sense and least bad measures... in open societies in real life, specific laws and enforcement haven't yet been able to eliminate #sshole behavior... it's usually handled socially. Sure it's different, but there's got to be some common sense and due-process, rather than instahellban of a core dev because someone new makes a bogus accusation. 0. Folks should try to calmly stand up to bullyvictim behavior and excessive microagression drama. 1. On large projects facing mostly public / non-enterprise / younger users, there could be need for formal training of project leade
Critical throwaway4891a · 2016-11 · on “Trump Won Because Leftist Political Correctness Inspired a Terrifying Backlash”
Gad Saad and Jonathan Haidt bring sensibility to causes and effects of the Karpman drama triangle that displaced actual, past revolutionary action on college campuses / social sciences with mostly an imposter, going through the motions but stuck bikeshedding (i.e., microaggressions, SJWing) rather than attacking major social problems. There's also helicopter parenting, lack of movement leadership, fall of SFDS, extended adolescence, for-profit universities catering to student whims and other aspects which compound the situation. Critical thinking skills, respectful debate without onerous preconditions (i.e., demanding apologies/subservience) and proportionality of response could be emphasize