Students walk out of talk on gender identity at Portland State University

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They couldn't bear the truth!
I have to wonder what world these students are living in. A fantasy world?
(Sorry if this has been already posted -- I've been of MN for a day or two but didn't see it in any thread title.

Thank you for posting. How intollerant they are. They cannot bear to hear anything they don't agree with. Makes me wonder how they go through life.

Worth watching. I liked the summing up at the end.

I've been of MN = off

It's as if something totally bizarre, out of this world, confrontational, controversial, shocking had been said; but it was just the basic facts that we ALL know! Even toddlers can tell the difference between men and women -- they can tell immediately!

These students are suffering from severe cognitive dissonance. THAT is what is shocking.

What a roomfull of bigots.

Bigot /ˈbɪɡət /noun
a person who is intolerant towards those holding different opinions.

There is nothing new under the sun.

That was the crappest walkout ever.

People may not be able to correctly assign sex from looking at you but Im guessing if she had been male (and particularly a black male) she wouldn't have screamed 'fuck the police on the way out).

What a roomfull of bigots.

It wasn’t a room full of bigots. Most of the people in that room were on the side of facts and debate, and made that clear at the end of the clip.

Indeed -- I liked the fact that most stayed and applauded.

Does anyone have the names of the professors (so we can congratulate them!)

Worth watching till the end.

The "Fuck the police" girl made me smile too. Silly kiddos

The posturing of those demonstrators was absurd

Who starts a protest walkout by standing up and saying “bye-eee”? It was feeble.

Some people have waaay too much time on their hands. Get a grip and do some studying!

More about the walkout, with names etc, here. legalinsurrection.com/2018/02/portland-state-students-walk-out-of-event-when-biologist-says-men-and-women-are-different/

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Yeah, sorry I was under the impression the whole room walked out lol.
It was a just a handful.

An eggcup of big its.

they were only there so they could walk out.

As far as I can tell the "fuck the police" woman or another individual did some damage to the AV equipment on the way out and they politely took her to one side for a minute, hardly the jackboot of oppression.

That poor kid who was banging on about nazis doesn't really know what nazism is. Hint: it's not stating biological facts.

Not sure James Damore is particularly worthy of congratulating for his extremely regressive views about women being biologically less good at science. Was that woman about to say that men and women have different brains? I'd exercise caution about being wholeheartedly on one side without knowing what was actually said at this lecture. The protesters outside the event were holding pictures of female scientists.

Meh. My first thought for them was "fuck they are going to be very embarrassed by that in a few year's time.

My second thought was - I feel bad for them. They are youngsters, raised on a diet of 'reality is what you will it and if anyone points out that's not true it's tantamount to abuse.'

They are clearly young, finding their feet, still not out of the 'rebel adolescence' phase. And they've been fed a ton of crap to hang on to in a world that is becoming ever more chaotic by the day. Stuff that is only serving to create more confusion and division and to further mess with people's minds and reality.

On my darker days, I just think - well if you can get youngsters to internalize that even biological facts are incorrect, then you can manipulate them into whatever you like - no matter what the truth is.

I think they went there to protest against James Damore (who does hold objectionable views) but didn't have the necessary attention span and so walked out over a statement about sex differences in height, muscle mass, and fat deposits instead!?!

Whatever happened to people going to higher education to broaden their minds? People are definitely getting dumber and less tolerant.

How embarrassing for them.

When I was a student we protested against little things like, oh I don’t know, student grant cuts, nuclear weapons, etc . Nowadays it’s fir the rights of a teensy minority of men to crap over all the women.

Duh? Who does their PR?

Hard to say based on such a short clip. Clearly the discussion had already been going on for some time. Perhaps they are familiar with the speaker's views and knew where it was heading (women have different brains to men, they are less good at science, that's why there are fewer of them employed at Google).

I don't know because I haven't watched the whole thing either, but I don't think this was a lecture about gender identity. It appears to be a lecture about biological differences between men and women based on Damore's views and memo.