Chalkening

One of the chalkings at Emory University

The Chalkening was a protest that occurred on university campuses across the United States in March and April 2016 in support of the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump. Those who promoted it included Students for Trump and the Trump campaign.[1][2] This protest mainly took the form of chalk writing in public areas on campus with slogans such as "Trump 2016".[3]

Origin

This mass, chalk-based protest happened alongside an outpouring of media criticism of an incident at Emory University in March 2016. An Emory university administrator sent an email expressing support for students who claimed to feel threatened and unsafe by hate speech in the form of pro-Trump chalkings on the campus.[4]

Backlash to backlash

The criticism of the anti-Trump Emory students was a backlash that arose out of a perceived pattern of coddling by university administrators of certain groups of university students that hold unreasonable views on the standards of public discourse. The chalkening phenomenon has come amid heightened tensions on American university campuses surrounding the 2016 Presidential Campaign, which has sometimes included violence. Perceived microagressions, such as the chalkening, has been belittled by some commentators attempting to contrast it with world events in 2016 such as genocide and war.[5][6][7][8] In mid-April 2016, DePaul University banned the use of chalk on campus sidewalks after the College Republicans organized a chalking event where students wrote pro-Trump messages.[9][10]

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References

  1. ↑ Max Kutner,"Armed with chalk, Trump supporters are a new breed of College Republicans", Newsweek, April 9, 2016
  2. ↑ Tesfaye, Sophia (April 11, 2016). "Trump's Call for College Supporters to Express Themselves With Chalk Leaves Campuses Full of Racist Messages". AlterNet. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
  3. ↑ Katie Rogers, “Pro-Trump Chalk Messages Causing Conflicts on Campuses", The New York Times, April 1, 2016.
  4. ↑ Kim LaCapria, Chafe Spaces: A controversy at Emory University over graffiti promoting Donald Trump led to some predictably inaccurate media reports.", Snopes, March 24, 2016.
  5. ↑ Funny or Die, and Hulu, “Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Talks to Young Voters”, YouTube, February 8, 2016.
  6. ↑ Ben Axelson, “UAlbany bus assault: Black women lied about 'hate crime' attack, police say", Syracuse.com, February 26, 2016.
  7. ↑ Justin Moyer, “Oberlin College sushi ‘disrespectful’ to Japanese", The Washington Post, December 21, 2015.
  8. ↑ Editorial Board, “Team Obama finally admits the truth of ISIS genocide", New York Post, March 17, 2016.
  9. ↑ "DePaul U. bans use of chalk on sidewalks after pro-Trump messages offend". The Washingtion Times. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
  10. ↑ "DePaul University Bans Chalk Because It Can Be Used To Spell 'Trump'". The Daily Caller. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
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