Parroting the narrative from the Obama regime.
Via MRC:
The Washington Post announces it’s a liberal newspaper by highlighting right-wing extremism and coddling left-wing extremism. Both of these happened in Sunday’s paper. The front page carries a story on the threat of “patriot” groups in Oregon – the only times the Post wants to present people defending liberty and the Constitution is when they’re 9-11 truthers who conduct paramilitary exercises on weekends.
But The Washington Post Magazine carried an article that made a platform for “The New Language of Protest,” asking campus leftists to explain “safe spaces,” “trigger warnings,” and “microaggressions.” Shutting down speech is somehow described as “a new civil rights movement.”
Black student Roquel Crutcher says “People ask me to touch my hair. That’s a microaggression.” Fadumo Osman explained her headscarf and cultural appropriation: “When I wear my traditional clothing I’m a foreigner and I’m criminalized for it, but when you wear it….it’s cute.”
Teddy Amenabar of the Post set up this one-sided dialogue:
Just as the social turmoil of the 1960s generated new vocabulary — turn-on, sit-in, sexism — this latest wave of activism and upheaval is adding to our lexicon, with terms such as safe space, trigger warning, microaggression and cultural appropriation, which we explore here. We asked student leaders and activists from local universities to define these terms for us and to elaborate based on their own thoughts and experiences.
Many students believe these concepts foster inclusion, increase sensitivity and set up parameters in which difficult conversations can occur and marginalized voices can be heard. But critics, both on campus and off, call the concepts limiting, unrealistic, even un-American. They argue that creating safe spaces and using trigger warnings, for example, serve only to stifle free speech, coddle students and ignore both history and the reality found off campus.
The student leaders and activists we talked to have a ready answer to that last point. “I don’t think it’s outrageous for me to want my campus to be better than the world around it,” says Sasha Gilthorpe, outgoing student government president at American University. “I don’t think that makes me a stupid, naive child. I think that makes me a good person.”
That’s a “ready answer”? Other petulant pouting is included, like Osman saying “I didn’t think that respecting people’s existence is coddling, to be very frank.”
The front-page story by Kevin Sullivan on the Central Oregon Constitutional Guard is surely meant as Pulitzer Prize-bait — it stretches all over two entire inside pages under the headline “For some citizens, the government is the enemy.” But the Post doesn’t recognize that there’s an anti-government movement with fringy ideas and violent members called….Black Lives Matter.
This story could be mistaken as a promotional pamphlet for the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center and their mission of warning about the radical right, somehow always expanding at a dangerous rate. (The SPLC tracks but never emphasizes leftist violence and extremism, which means that they are not nonpartisan or non-ideological, as they are portrayed.)