09-26-2016, 13:13
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American College & Universities Special Snowflake Safety Areas
It just gets better and better.
I wonder if the Special Operations Command is considering this with the opening doors to females, LBGYTHUI's and the Gender Confused? 
In growing trend, colleges offer ball pits for students seeking emotional safety
By Jillian Kay Melchior
·Published September 26, 2016
· Heat Street
Ball pits” for social justice warriors are apparently now a thing on college campuses. Repeatedly, the ball pits have popped up at snowflake-friendly campus events discovered by Heat Street.
We blame the impulse to coddle and be coddled — which apparently has students fully regressing to the McDonald’s PlayPlace dreams of their childhoods.
Saint Mary’s College of California will bring a ball pit to campus on Oct. 3, as part of its Mental Health Awareness and Campus of Caring Week.
Other universities have also found ball pits a perfect “safe space” to talk about feelings and other really important and serious stuff.
Last semester, the University of Central Florida included a ball pit as part of its Social Justice Week. “The campus community will have an opportunity to enter a ball pit with another person and have an engaging conversation about a variety of social justice topics,” the event page said.
Texas Tech University also got a ball pit, which it put in its “free speech area,” as part of its Diversity Week in March 2016. Advertising its event as “a flashback to your childhood,” the Residence Hall Organization said it offered “an opportunity to meet new people, learn new things about different cultures, all while sitting in a ball pit!”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/26...al-satefy.html
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09-26-2016, 13:20
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Next up...a bounce house and personal time with cuddles the clown.
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09-26-2016, 13:31
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We had something like that in Basic. It was called the low-crawl pit. 
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09-26-2016, 13:49
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You young guys are missing a great opportunity. If I was still in college, I'd find some"right" thinking individuals and use these safe spaces as PC free zones and talk about guns and chic's.
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09-26-2016, 13:54
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Holy, freeholy, Batman...this is embarrassing!
We are almost completely gone as a nation. I think we have truly passed the point of no return.
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09-26-2016, 14:04
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I'd venture to say these college students won't be putting up much of a fight should their dear leader call upon them to put down an uprising of deplorables.
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09-26-2016, 14:10
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Take a piss is the ball pit when they aren't looking.
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09-26-2016, 14:25
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Texas Tech University also got a ball pit, which it put in its “free speech area,” as part of its Diversity Week in March 2016.
free speech my ass...
...how can you have a safe space when it is being polluted by free speech?
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09-26-2016, 14:37
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ddoering
Take a piss is the ball pit when they aren't looking.
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or when they are. It won't make any difference.
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09-26-2016, 14:51
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PSM
We had something like that in Basic. It was called the low-crawl pit.
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See, things have already been getting softer. In my basic it was the Pugil Pit. And before that they just let you loose in the Bayonet Pit to settle free speech issues. 
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09-26-2016, 15:40
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I am definitely trying to view this as a "glass half full" situation.
The folks likely to be influenced into using such facilities as well as conforming to such psychosocial influence and behaviours(I'm not a psych....I'm just a blue collar tinkerer with volunteer candidates  ) in my opinion will be poorly equipped to make effective decisions under high stress.
I'd be genuinely scared if the domestic bad guys on the opposite end of the spectrum were trying to build effective psychological resilience into their "army".
To me, this seems like they are reducing resilience......which could also be a reduction in individual/small group effectiveness when stress inevitably invades their future where safe spaces don't exist.
Which should enhance OUR kids' relative competitive advantage in life.
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09-26-2016, 15:44
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ddoering
Take a piss is the ball pit when they aren't looking.
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I know of a guy whose kid did just that ... TWICE !!!
Now he and his whole family are banned from Chic-Fil-A.
The really funny thing is ... the kid who did the peeing ...
Is the grandson of a Colorado State Senator.
Oh yeah, one more thing ....
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09-26-2016, 20:13
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Should be called a "bawl" pit.
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09-26-2016, 20:39
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Holy, freeholy, Batman...this is embarrassing!
We are almost completely gone as a nation. I think we have truly passed the point of no return.
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I am of the opinion we need a civil war, call me crazy...
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09-27-2016, 06:39
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For those still serving
has anyone had to deal with special snowflakes yet? I haven't. But my circle of friends and acquaintances don't include those that lean that way.
At my unit, I haven't had to. I've been in for 12 years but I do see an increase in softness. Kinder and gentler. It's all subtle and disturbing.
Reenlisted 30 days prior to the death of justice (July 5th) and since then I've been questioning myself. Whiskey will fix that though, it's a nice distraction.
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