More terror: ‘Trump 2016’ in sidewalk chalk traumatizes Emory students

Via Twitchy

TRIGGER WARNING: This post contains multiple mentions of GOP candidate D—– T—- and may be upsetting to some readers.

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If you’re fortunate enough that your age, career and/or life experience allow you to see beyond the “safe spaces” that enclose and protect America’s finest colleges from stranger danger, you know all about the terrorist bombings that killed nearly three dozen and wounded hundreds in Brussels, Belgium.

Those of us on the outside of that safe space and forbidden from looking in might have missed another terror incident that took place recently on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta. In a piece in today’s edition of The Emory Wheel that runs more than 1,100 words, Sam Budnyk describes the horrifying discovery of “Trump 2016” chalk drawings and the administration’s flaccid response to student concerns.

OH NO! CHALK! https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/712428712004816896 

Yes, chalk.

Somebody wrote “Trump 2016” in chalk on an Emory University sidewalk. Students report feeling “unsafe” and “afraid” http://emorywheel.com/emory-students-express-discontent-with-administrative-response-to-trump-chalkings/ 

[Editor’s note: Christopher Ingraham is a verified Washington Post reporter, and we’ve confirmed The Emory Wheel is not a parody site.]

Budnyk reports today that after around 40 students stood outside Emory’s administration building and chanted, “Come speak to us, we are in pain!” and “We have nothing to lose but our chains,” the demonstrators comforted each other in a stairwell. “I’m supposed to feel comfortable and safe,” one student reportedly confessed. “I don’t deserve to feel afraid at my school.”

Students then assembled in a board room where they continued to bare their feelings. University President James W. Wagner was unfortunate enough to join the impromptu meeting, where he was asked if Emory would “decry the support for this fascist, racist candidate” in an official campus-wide email. The president vetoed that idea, but after an hour said the university would review security footage to identify those who made the chalk drawings and press trespassing charges if the people behind them weren’t students.

Some pertinent tweets:

@_cingraham @emorywheel I’d laugh, but it’s just too sad.

@_cingraham @AndrewStilesUSA @emorywheel maybe they can get their midterms delayed while they recover

@_cingraham @emorywheel safe spaces filling up quickly @ Emory U

@_cingraham Hopefully they don’t develop PTSD. Differing opinions can destroy lives. pic.twitter.com/KelWhuZS0y

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Anonymous
Anonymous
March 24, 2016 9:42 am

Ya’ know what’s actually terrifying?

The future of our nation rests in these children’s hands.

TC
TC
March 24, 2016 9:44 am

lol…

ThePessimisticChemist
ThePessimisticChemist
March 24, 2016 9:57 am

I’m a pretty laid back guy. I don’t really ever get too excited, one way or the other. If you want strong emotions, talk to my wife.

That being said, this victim movement, and the socialism attached to it, truly enrages me. These are people with no actual life experience who want to control everything because “they are enlightened”.

I hate them.

This little gem has been making the rounds on the internet lately:

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“Emotional abuse is just as bad as physical abuse.”
“Worse! You can heal broken bones; you can’t heal a broken mind!”

I don’t have to tell you all whats fucked up about this, but in the spirit of angry ranters everywhere, I shall continue on.

First lets make one thing abundantly clear, physical abuse is separated from your emotions. Anybody who has ever been physically abused, assaulted, attacked, or injured knows it was not some robotic experience. When someone takes the time out of their day to injure you, then there is strong emotion attached.

TPC anecdote time: My mom’s ex used to knock the crap out of me. Not my little brother, not my mom, me. Something goes wrong? Its TPC’s fault. Better teach him a lesson. That man hates me to this day because I never stopped looking him in the eye.

When it wasn’t physical, it was only emotional. “Idiot, fucking idiot, fucking useless, no wonder you don’t have any friends.” etc. Words can hurt, but nothing like the confused feeling of loving who is hurting you. Love? Well, my mother dearest used to tell me I was a bad son if I didn’t love my “new dad.” She would also tell me I deserved it. Every. Damn. Time.

So, at the time I convinced myself that I loved the jackass. For a year or so anyway.

The physical abuse is emotional. Even when it came out of the blue and was for no reason. About as robotic as you can get.

These jackasses have no idea of what it feels like to be physically abused, to wonder if this time he’d take it too far and you wouldn’t recover, if this time was the time to run away forever. They don’t understand just how goddamned much a fucking bone deep bruise hurts. They don’t understand the confusion that comes from loving the piece of shit thats putting you through this. They don’t understand that the abuse is total, and complete.

There is such a thing as just emotional abuse, but there is not and will never be “only physical” abuse. What a crock of bullshit.

Making the claim that emotional abuse is worse than physical is demeaning to every trauma survivor alive today. People who have endured pain and moved beyond it, or even are still fighting it.

The entire point of this stupid fucking movement is to make people “watch their words” so that nobody is ever triggered, and likens being called a bad name with actual rape or being beaten.

Fuck these people, and fuck their complete lack of problems. I pray that whoever wins the next election its not Hillary, because she would buy us a few more years of status quo, and I’m done with that shit.

Lets get this shit on the road, I’m tired of waiting.

TL;DR: Getting told you’re a piece of shit sucks. Getting punched while being told you’re a piece of shit is worse.

ThePessimisticChemist
ThePessimisticChemist
March 24, 2016 9:59 am

Well fuck, I knew I should have typed that out in another location and then proof-read it better.

Physical abuse is NOT SEPARATED from your emotions.

Way to fucking ruin the entire thing.

What a POS TPC, no wonder you don’t have any friends etc etc

SpecOpsAlpha
SpecOpsAlpha
March 24, 2016 10:29 am

The Onion articles actually ARE prologue. Who would have guessed?

Greg in NC
Greg in NC
March 24, 2016 10:37 am

These stupid children are mere tools for the establishment to eliminate free speech. They have been indoctrinated by the evil assholes at the department of education. However, it will be a joy to watch them awaken to it once it is too late.

Rose
Rose
March 24, 2016 11:17 am

Living through a collapse will suck, but one definite perk will be watching these special snowflakes melt into oblivion.

TPC: I know you aren’t looking for sympathy, but I still have to offer it. As a mom, hearing a story like yours makes my blood boil. I am sorry you had to live through that. No child should have to, and far too many do.

I hope that your life is filled with all the happiness that you didn’t get to enjoy as a kid living through that hell.

And you are 100% right. Physical abuse by a so-called loved one is a 100% mindfuck in the worst way, a toxic mess of confused loyalties, emotions and thoughts. Horrible.

Araven
Araven
March 24, 2016 11:17 am

TPC, so you made one type-o, that doesn’t ruin your comment one bit. Very powerful comment, thank you for sharing it with us!

Backtable
Backtable
March 24, 2016 11:38 am

Simplest point on earth these over-protected snow flakes haven’t figured out and have obviously haven’t been taught:

“It’s not what happens to you in life, because odds are it will.. It’s how you handle it.”

“Dealing with it” or adapting, apparently doesn’t factor into their profoundly limited repetoire of coping skills.

I agree with Darwin in this regard – it isn’t the smartest or the strongest but those most able to adapt that survive. (Strong AND smart isn’t a bad bet, though).

What does this imply about this current generation of clueless, immature SJW’s and and their future?

Anonymous
Anonymous
March 24, 2016 11:38 am

@Rose – Yeah, in a strange way I’m actually thankful for my life experience. Even if I had lived a life of unicorns and magic I would still hold the views that I do today.

The difference now is that I can back up my assertions with experience. Experience that sometimes overwhelms the delicate sensibilities of the special snowflakes of the world.

The reason I don’t look for sympathy is that so many more have it worse. I was never abused sexually, so I’ll never have to carry a burden as fucked up as that.

Thank you for the compassion though, it is appreciated. Ultimately my mother ended up divorcing the guy. They were driving down a country road and got in an argument. He pulled the car off the side of the road and beat her badly enough that I had to take her to the ER while he was holed up in his truck drinking somewhere.

The messed up thing is that I didn’t even have any sympathy for her, we were on the hour-long drive to the nearest ER and I remember saying “Wow, one taste of what I’ve been getting for years is what it finally took.” She cried.

In a way her condition was my fault. The guy needed an aggressive outlet, and I didn’t fit the role anymore, I was too big. She was up next, since he took a shine to my younger brother.

I haven’t spoken to her in years. I can forgive the past, but she will always be a manipulative bitch and I can’t have that in my life.

I love my mom, but I don’t like her.

@Araven – It was kind of a joke, my own type-os annoy me even more than flash’s copy/paste nonsense. Thanks you though.

Anonymous
Anonymous
March 24, 2016 11:39 am

Above Anon was me.

-TPC

starfcker
starfcker
March 24, 2016 8:38 pm

Those special snowflakes better get used to trump, because it looks like the national enquirer just took down ted cruz. Bye bye ted. The Holy roller path can be a treacherous one

Stucky
Stucky
March 24, 2016 9:01 pm

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starfcker
starfcker
March 24, 2016 9:17 pm

The one on the left in trump’s spokeswoman. And the one on the right is amanda carpenter of CNN.

Tim
Tim
March 24, 2016 10:15 pm

@ starfcker:

Weren’t you due to release a Led Zepplin post?

I’m dying to read it!!

starfcker
starfcker
March 24, 2016 10:44 pm

Yes, I lost it trying to cut and paste it into email. Poof. Gone. Mostly done rewriting it. Shooting for monday

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