Protesters form human chain to stop white students from getting to class.

Students at the University of California, Berkeley held a day of protest on Friday to demand the creation of additional “safe spaces” for transgender and nonwhite students, during which a human chain was formed on a main campus artery to prevent white students from getting to class.

The demonstrators were caught on video blocking Berkeley’s Sather Gate, holding large banners advocating the creation of physical spaces segregated by race and gender identity, including one that read “Fight 4 Spaces of Color.”

Protesters can be heard shouting “Go around!” to white students who attempt to go through the blockade, while students of color are greeted with calls of “Let him through!”

Students turned away by the mob are later shown filing through trees and ducking under branches in order to cross Strawberry Creek, which runs underneath the bridge.

Protesting students went on to march through the Berkeley Student Union, chanting and disrupting students who are studying.

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How many votes did Trump won after this!?

Glitchspot!

I heard about this days ago. College students are apparently the dumbest people in America.

@loco145:

Zero is my guess. I dunno...call it a hunch.

But muh privileges

This ignoramus, shameful, dumb shyte here! And by college students? Let me get this straight...non white students want to segregate. WHAT IN THE HELL did my parents, grandparents, Dr. King, etc. march and protest for?

I will take some time to read this story more in depth when able but this seems beyond foolish. Don't we already know what happens when we start separating people based on race in this country? And minorities are ADVOCATING for it?

@sayyy-gaa:

Ikr! What do you even call this? Reverse racism?

I'm going to give him another few hundred at least, if the FSB can get me enough additional ballots.

:-P

Yeah okay. The protesters are being a bunch of assholes.

You don't know many college students, do you?

Human chains are kind of like Trump's wall, completely absurd, and easy to get around or through.

Patently absurd.

I think a good left hook would have stopped their will to protest. To bad most kids at these schools are a bunch of pussys.

He probably knows too many.

No just racism.

Luckily they weren't at Temple where you get your ass beat for being white.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/10/26/flash-mob-of-150-teens-attacks-temple-university-students-cops-in-philly/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/26/after-temple-university-flash-mob-dozens-of-teens-/

My thoughts exactly.

Safe spaces is the stupidest thing, do they want segregation?

The answer is yes and it's already here.

http://abc7.com/education/segregated-housing-at-csula-sparks-national-debate/1502106/

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/28906/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/20/san-francisco-state-to-offer-afro-themed-housing-f/

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/439383/uconn-dorm-segregation-black-separatism-should-have-no-place-higher-education

http://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/education/2016/01/29/ui-start-living-learning-community-blacks/79523386/

Didn't you hear? segregation is the most progressive thing around and if you don't believe that you are probably literally Hitler.

It's been getting worst every year, just look at this video of a student fighting a professor on the theory of Evolution

neo nazis and sjws need to get together and realize they mostly want the same things

We're protesting discrimination by being racist! Wooo!!!

So... I guess it's cool to bash College kids? I can't believe I'm saying this (because it should be obvious) but the actions of a few don't represent the majority. Most college kids just want to learn, explore, party, graduate, and obtain jobs.

lol ok mr internet tough guy sir.

Well, that was entertaining. lol

Being white is now triggering.

@drunk_pi: Call it what you want, if i walk through a crowd and someone physically grabs me and tells me i cant walk through because im white im dropping them.

there's a time and place for everything, and it's called college.

it's easy to judge, but as long as they grow out of it, let them eat cake. this shit is kind of ridiculous, though; we didn't pull this kind of shit when I was in school. I went to school to, you know, learn and help me get a job.

*sigh* I think society kinds of needs to change it's views on maturity. Kids are a lot more mature these days; I'm seeing 10 year olds talking to adults acting all polite and controlled and I'm like "Damn when I was your age I was running around with my penis out and screaming and stuff". But then they get to high school and turn to jerks. Then they get to college and all of a sudden they turn back to petulant children again! And this seems to last until the mid-20s for some reason. WTF is going on?

I think Jon Stewart had the right idea: you turn 18, you do 2-4 years of service (military, public service, charity, whatever)...then you can go to school or get a job or whatever. People gotta think of others before the self.

These people think they're protesting for others but they're not, they're there for themselves. Or worse, they're puppets. More likely the latter. Poor kids...

Well, that is kinda counterproductive.

This kind of tribalism, aint doing shit for anyone. Way to worsen tensions.

So, they're fighting for segregation? Now that's irony.

Ok. What if they hit back?

What's the deal with safe spaces? I remember in college we never had anything of the sort. I remember we had areas like our ethnic cultural center, divided mainly into 4 main areas with a larger common area, mainly served the black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American student bodies, but they weren't exclusive spaces, hell even many white students went to use the facilities if they had friends there, they also had a study center next door, it wasn't exclusive to any one group of people. The most exclusionary place in all of campus was maybe the gender designated bathrooms and locker rooms.

Because white people are the devil, and they oppress minorities as well as not giving me good grades or a high paying job. They're the cause of today's worlds problems so segregation is the progressive step for a better world! /hipster

Yeah there's no defense for this, this is shit. I hope the school broke them up.

"How many votes did Trump won after this!?"

TC must be one of them. Like Bill Maher says: America is as a whole a stupid country. Our national reading, Math and science scores show that we suck against much of the industrialized world. I mean, read what I quoted from the OP out loud and explain to me how that question makes sense.

To be fair this is a singular belligerent idiot who likely got kicked out of school for her outburst. It's not really relevant to this topic of organized idiocy.

But it's not racist. Only white people can be racist, since their racism is backing a systemic power structure that influences policy and laws to hurt black people. If black students push for segregated spaces, they're not being racist, because they're trying to change a system, laws, and structures to help their race at the expense of other races. wait...............

That's the dipshit logic that BLM and it's supporters are pushing into the culture. The little thought experiment to disprove this nonsense hypothesis is as follows:

White person says "I hate all black people, and want them to die!"

Black person says "I hate all white people, and want them to die!"

In the BLM, segregationist mind, the white person is representing a structure of oppression with what he is saying. The black person is merely prejudiced, because the black person does not represent a structure. It should be pretty easy to see past this fallacy. The white person saying that statement is not representing any structure of racism, nor pushing for anti black laws or structures. This racist is simply speaking as an individual racist. Now, what the BLM people do not seem to get is that when the black person says that racist statement as well, it also has nothing to do with structural racism, laws or systems, it is simply a racist statement.

I wonder what BLM would say about racism deriving from structural oppression, if say, tomorrow blacks accounted for 70% of America, and whites accounted for 13%. Would that then mean that all blacks are racist, and whites cannot be racist? The blacks are in the position of power, so does the same not apply? Theses groups demonstrate casuistry at it's worst. They're arguments sound well meaning, but in pushing for equality, they silence free expression of those deemed in the out group, and they push for literal segregation. These people do not represent liberal principles, they represent a soft fascism.

In microcosm, BLM is the fascist equivalent of "I'll just stick the tip in, slowly." followed by a deep, hard thrust.

It would be kind of interesting to see what would happen if the school met a group like this one's demands in full but also gave some white/straight "safe spaces" and referred to them as "separate but equal." I wonder if the intentional historical references would have any effect.

For real though, universities at large create policies regarding code of conduct and such where all students are free to engage in without being harassed, especially not on racial or cultural or sexual reasons. The idea of a safe space is a bit redundant if you ask me, as I'm pretty sure campuses aim to have that kind of environment. These tactics too are divisive, and they're contradictory to the kind of behavior that protects students from harassment. Seriously, I spent six years in college just to get a bachelors and about the only group I noticed get any harassment universally was cigarette smokers. Maybe the only time I saw student bodies clash was when Dennis Kucinich came to speak in 2004 and the College Republicans came by chanting "4 more years, 4 more years!!"... I mean, contentious in the sense of opposing views but nothing ever got out of hand.

Times have changed it seems, more liberals are becoming the establishment, having Conservative views means you're a racist bigot and white apparently to these kids. It's getting really out of hand when we don't have any civil debates with opposing views.

I'm fairly conservative and hold traditional American values, my sister is a total left wing liberal lunatic. She actually tries to make me feel guilty for being a man, white and having "privilege", it's one of the dumbest things I've ever encountered and I don't even like her anymore because of how insane she's become...

@killered3: Christ, there's no such thing as reverse racism. It's just racism.

Shit like this makes me ashamed to be part of this generation. Millennials are supposedly forward thinking people, but this nonsense is crapping all over the civil rights movement. We're socially going back in time.

The notion of safe spaces is absurd. These people are in for a wide awakening when they get out in the real world.

Making white people pay for the crimes of their ancestors is like making a man pay for a murder committed by his grandfather. This only fuels racial tension.

And for the record, I refuse to feel any guilt for being a straight white male, a simple accident of birth.

These assholes can go **** themselves.

I just remain constantly surprised that people didn't see this sort of thing coming.

The idea that different groups of people should get treated with different standards has been pretty much ubiquitous in left-wing politics for the last 20 years.

These kids aren't really doing anything but presenting the same concept in a much more obviously negative way.

Totally disgusting and unamerican. And they are ironically oppressing white members of the transgender community. We'll never get anywhere as a country if we cast judgement based on skin color. And will be no better than Jim crow backers, because we'll become just like them. Fortunately the video really just demostarted a vocal minority, but not the majority (see the amount who walked around). But that doesn't take away from how dangerous this new generation of young activists are.

Unlike the Christian lead civil rights movement of old, and other truly peaceful movements. The kind that's sprouting in recent years, lacks love for their neighbor. Hate cannot drive out hate. Discrediting opposition without rational dialogue gets nowhere. And this young generation of activists, has no respect for those who grew up in a far more oppressive society. Discrediting the MLK style by labeling it as outdated. When it accomplished far more sweeping reforms than any recent movement has done. And that's why older generation adults, are largely absent from movements like this. They see through the lines of a weak leadership of self entitlement. With unreasonable, irrational, or no specific goals.

@drunk_pi: That would be called a fight. If you hit them hard enough directly on the jaw they won't be hitting you back that day.

Another daily reminder for why SJW's are ruining this country.

Because they are in college racism is okay? Seriously?

@LJS9502_basic: dude they're just kids playing around, making an exercise in their right to protest at a historic hippie school; as long as no one takes them serious it won't mean anything, and they'll get tired soon enough.

The problem is the god damn news get's on here like it's the end of the world then some asshole politician or some wannabe journalist with a blog get ahold of it and is like "HERP! DERP DERP! DERPA DERP DERP!" and suddenly, wouldn't you know it, it's a big deal.

It's like a bunch of people are LARP'ing and the next day we are told dragons burnt down Berkeley.

It's just not a big deal. We won't be talking about this in, oh I don't know...two days?

This is what nonstop pandering from mainstream media and their army of SJWs leads to. Gonna keep getting worse.