re: Alabamas "safe Spacers" list of demands

So do they want to be called colored again too

I have a serious question. I can understand people not being comfortable when you feel like an outsider. Knowing this and this being something they aren't interested in, why not choose a better fit such as a black college (not sure what the current terminology is). Not trolling, just trying to understand.

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Increase black faculty? So you want to hire people based off the color of their skin?

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I'm a UA faculty member. We've tried to hire black faculty in every opening we've had ever since I've been here. Once, we even offered a tenure-track job to a black female who was only ABD! If you were not a black female and only ABD, we'd not even respond to your application. She turned us down for a similar tenure-track job at LSU. Unfortunately, persons of color who hold terminal degrees are a very rare commodity.

So far as a demand for diversity in hiring, this is total and complete horse shite. At least two of the positions in my department were advertised as "female only" positions. The most intolerant people on this campus are the faculty screaming for diversity and inclusion. What they really mean is "do it my way or you're a bigot/misogynist/aggressor."

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1. Why do we need to fund a women's center? Most college students are female. They're not a minority.

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LSU has a woman's and African American center, IIRC. They already have a safe space.

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"Include a visual marker"

Why the microaggression toward blind people?

TRIGGERED

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There used to be a lib website that used visual markers for that kind of thing. They'd use a pitchfork for "just plain evil" and a dollar sign for "greedy".

They also had a marker for "racist" that would get the message across quite well, but it might #trigger a lot of people...

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Hell, all students are "of color" or does the University have some students who are clear?

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We had this one guy who was so white that if you held him in front of a strong light bulb you could see his internal organs.