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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Taneras" data-source="post: 6878198" data-attributes="member: 6842952">Don't forget the students needing therapy because someone wrote "Trump 2016" on a university's sidewalk, the Yale students who felt physically threatened because some Yale professors didn't think the university should be telling 20 something year olds how to dress on Halloween, what happened at Missouri University, the students at Brown University needing a "safe space" where cookies, coloring books, bubbles, Play-Doh, calming music, pillows, blankets, and a video of puppies were provided to calm them down because there was a discussion happening on campus grounds about whether or not rape on campus was worse than society at large,  Hampshire College a few years ago cancelling the band "Shokazoba" that their own student body invited because it was "too white", and the Cali teacher who threw out her high school student votes, at a predominantly Hispanic school mind you, because they had voted too many white people in.  Heck, there was just a video at a Cali University where two black students accosted a white student because he was wearing deadlocks.  I could go on...I'm seeing a recent trend here and I think people are right in questioning how we should respond to complaints about offense and harassment because there are hypersensitive individuals that will make our community walk on egg shells because of their over-the-top delicate disposition.  Especially when what spurred on the conversation was an article penned that target demographics, link to blogs about the white male terrorist problem, equipped with trigger warnings, safe spaces, and calls that anything outside of a "sit, listen, believe, and ask how you can help" is unacceptable.  When I see that article, when I see calls to automatically and unquestioningly believe the person making the harassment claims, when I see the overall tone of this discussion I'm reminded of the same sorts of language and ideologies that caused the aforementioned hyper-sensitive behavior.  I think the vast majority of our community is fine with trying to prevent groping, rape/assault threats, crude and graphic jokes made in public, DM's having people's characters raped, (as well as other forms of harassment), etc.  But I think adding voices of caution so we don't end up going so far in that direction that we start to include such high standards of speech police that we can't even say the word "crazy" in front of people we don't know isn't a bad thing and shouldn't be characterized as the privileged cis-genderd heterosexual white males trying to hold onto their "top dog" status.  I'm going to be mindful and respectful, as I have always been, but not to the point where I'm walking on egg shells wondering if I'm going to get reported because I'm wearing deadlocks while white.  I'm speaking out because of what I've seen, outside of the tabletop community.  I've personally seen those sorts of people who need coloring books to adjust to ideas they disagree with ruin some of my other interests/hobbies and I don't want that happening here - so that's why I'm speaking out.</blockquote>

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