The Chalkening was a protest that occurred on university campuses across the United States in March and April 2016, publicized by personnel affiliated with the Trump campaign, as well as numerous media outlets. Dozens of universities were affected. This protest mainly took the form of chalk writing in public areas on campus with slogans in support of the United States Presidential candidate, Donald Trump, such as "Trump 2016".
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Portests
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.
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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 like such as genocide and war.
Later impacts
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.
In mid September of 2017 chalk protests have resumed at University of California, Berkeley, to protest right-wing speaker Milo Yiannopoulos' week-long event 'Free Speech Week'.
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- Internet meme
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Source of the article : Wikipedia
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