https://twitter.com/BrekPajvod/status/735579188665585664
Do you remember last fall, when student snowflakes flipped the hell out over an email from the associate master of Yale’s Silliman College? Erika Christakis had the nerve to suggest that students shouldn’t lose it over “offensive” Halloween costumes because free speech is actually a pretty good thing:
The associate master, Erika Christakis, wrote to the campus community criticizing efforts to proscribe certain types of dress, particularly for young people, while also noting: “I don’t wish to trivialize genuine concerns about cultural and personal representation.”
“I don’t, actually, trust myself to foist my Halloweenish standards and motives on others. I can’t defend them anymore than you could defend yours,” wrote Christakis, a lecturer at the Yale Child Study Center and the wife of Nicholas Christakis, a sociologist and physician and the master of Silliman College. “Nicholas says, if you don’t like a costume someone is wearing, look away, or tell them you are offended. Talk to each other. Free speech and the ability to tolerate offence are the hallmarks of a free and open society.”
Well, all those snowflakes can give themselves a big P.C. pat on the back, because their tantrums have brought them the scalps they were clamoring for:
After a controversial year, Silliman College Head Nicholas Christakis and Assoc. Head Erika Christakis will step down effective this July.
— Yale Daily News (@yaledailynews) May 25, 2016
Social justice wins again!
This is terrible. https://t.co/8yCbt5QLph
— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) May 25, 2016
@CHSommers A wonder they put up with it for as long as they did.
— Arni ?? (@arnizach) May 25, 2016
They should write a final f-you letter. https://t.co/lOz0Poubf2
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) May 25, 2016
Here’s Nicholas Christakis’ statement:
I am stepping down from serving as Head of Silliman College at Yale @Silliman2. This is our only public statement. pic.twitter.com/lhx3JZnsgR
— Nicholas A. Christakis (@NAChristakis) May 25, 2016
That’s a far more generous statement than the students and their apologists deserve.
good for you, bad for them.
— Daniel Gilbert (@DanTGilbert) May 25, 2016
https://twitter.com/bibliofam/status/735582403524067330
This is what happens when the lunatics are running the asylum.
— Armen Devejian (@daddykool) May 25, 2016
Fuck 'em. https://t.co/qNm7B3fjbC
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) May 25, 2016
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Safe space alert! Op-ed describes how some Yale special snowflakes are reacting to tolerance email
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Howard Dean on Yale controversy: Respecting others is better than free speech
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