@i dunno i think geiser’s one of the better writers the spec has (not that that’s saying much)… what in particular offends your L&R-cultivated sensibilities?
@co fact: dark streets with few pedestrians are inherently unsafe, no matter what race lives on them. that’s why there are security guards every 20 feet on claremont ave.
@not the spec i agree with you about the contradiction, but i’d argue that the spec’s editorial board is NOT necessarily in line with the rest of the paper. usually they offer half-thought-through nonsense that most of the news section can see right through.
@wtf2 i like how the spec writes an editorial bemoaning campus racism ONE DAY AFTER they wrote one about how 110th & columbus isn’t safe, needs more security and protection from non-students, and even printed a quote from a girl claiming it was “Spanish Harlem” and “sketchy.” if those attitudes aren’t rooted in racism, i don’t know what is.
@hmm seems to me she’s not calling for some esoteric notion of ‘safe space’ but actually, literally: a space in campus dialogue (and action) where groups/individuals feel comfortable discussing issues of hate/bias/racism/etc.
@please All these diversity articles mention “safe space” but they never define it, explain what it means. Please someone just explain why “more safe space” makes sense.
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@umm And roving reporter is what people on campus say, not what Spec believes. That’s why its roving.
@i dunno i think geiser’s one of the better writers the spec has (not that that’s saying much)… what in particular offends your L&R-cultivated sensibilities?
@co fact: dark streets with few pedestrians are inherently unsafe, no matter what race lives on them. that’s why there are security guards every 20 feet on claremont ave.
@wtf I don’t give two shits what Geiser’s calling for. I care that the Spec actually gives her space to butcher the English language.
@not the spec i agree with you about the contradiction, but i’d argue that the spec’s editorial board is NOT necessarily in line with the rest of the paper. usually they offer half-thought-through nonsense that most of the news section can see right through.
@wtf2 i like how the spec writes an editorial bemoaning campus racism ONE DAY AFTER they wrote one about how 110th & columbus isn’t safe, needs more security and protection from non-students, and even printed a quote from a girl claiming it was “Spanish Harlem” and “sketchy.” if those attitudes aren’t rooted in racism, i don’t know what is.
@hmm seems to me she’s not calling for some esoteric notion of ‘safe space’ but actually, literally: a space in campus dialogue (and action) where groups/individuals feel comfortable discussing issues of hate/bias/racism/etc.
@wtf Her last article rocked too. If only she wrote it.
@please All these diversity articles mention “safe space” but they never define it, explain what it means. Please someone just explain why “more safe space” makes sense.
@oh come now her article rocked
@wtf Nell Geiser can’t be allowed to graduate since she obviously never passed L&R.
@hm Eric Foner is way more bad-ass than Horowitz. Grouchy ranting Marxists for the win.