Over-sensitive can be translated as: sensitive to that which is not over.

[brer cat]

This is a very long read and impossible for me to capture in short excerpts. I have selected a couple of paragraphs about the "too-sensitive" students because we are seeing that thrown at the Yale and U Missouri student protesters. Her quote that I chose for the thread title is spot on.

http://feministkilljoys.com/2015/06/25/against-students/

...Safe spaces are another technique for dealing with the consequences of histories that are not over (a response to a history that is not over is necessarily inadequate because that history is not over). The aim is to enable conversations about difficult issues to happen: so often those conversations do not happen because the difficulties people wish to talk about end up being re-enacted within spaces, which is how they are not talked about. For example conversations about racism are very hard to have when white people become defensive about racism: those conversations end up being about those defences rather than about racism. We have safe spaces so we can talk about racism not so we can avoid talking about racism!

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The idea that students have become a problem because they are too sensitive relates to a wider public discourse that renders offendability as such a form of moral weakness (and as being what restricts “our” freedom of speech). Much contemporary racism works by positioning the others as too easily offendable, which is how some come to assert their right to occupy space by being offensive. And yes: so much gets “swept away,” by the charge of being too sensitive. A recent example would be how protests against the Human Zoo in the Barbican, about how racism is disguised as art or education, are swept up as a symptom of being “over-sensitive. According to this discourse, anti-racists end up censoring even themselves because they are “thin skinned.”

So much violence is justified and repeated by how those who refuse to participate in violence are judged. We need to make a translation. The idea that being over-sensitive is what stops us from addressing difficult issues can be translated as: we can’t be racist because you are too sensitive to racism.

Well then: we need to be too sensitive if we are to challenge what is not being addressed.

I am going to post additional sections in HOF, but I recommend taking the time to read the entire piece.

[Kind of Blue]

1. Thanks.

Will get to the links after work.

[Number23]

2. The same crowd that wails about college students being "too sensitive" is also the same crowd

that absolves themselves of helping to eradicate racism because they believe that racism will "die out" with old people.

So it looks as though their little prophesy is coming true but I guess they were thinking they'd be among the ones that would be dead first and they wouldn't have to deal with all of this messy inconvenience.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. They are also the same ones

That whine about how are alienating them when we tell the truth.

[Number23]

5. Case in point...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027346806

[randys1]

6. I especially love it when they come up with new terms

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7347278

or quote their favorite Black man


http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7347358

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. "Racialist" is not a new term ...

It is a much used term by white supremacists ... that claim they are not racists.

Though I haven't seen the term used by "liberals" on a "liberal" board to describe the conduct of PoC or those supporting PoC.

[JustAnotherGen]

7. On that thread - my response

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7346917

[lovemydog]

3. Everyone is sensitive.

The 'over-sensitive' label is often tagged on people who are trying to get their needs met and make demands accordingly.