The promulgation of the “campus rape culture” meme has spilled over into the local bar scene at one university.

A hysterical and overwrought reaction by a North Carolina student to the song “Blurred Lines” has caused a permanent ban on both the song and the DJ who played it at a campus bar.

The kerfuffle occurred on Saturday night at Fitzgerald’s Irish Pub, about two blocks off the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The disturbingly hypersensitive student is UNC senior Liz Hawryluk, reports The Daily Tar Heel, the school newspaper.

Hawryluk took it upon herself to step right into the DJ box when the DJ played “Blurred Lines,” a 2013 song by Robin Thicke. She asked him to stop playing the song because, she and other critics say, it encourages “rape culture” with lyrics like “I know you want it” and, presumably, “Just let me liberate you.”

“Fundamentally, all I was aiming to do is to create a safe space in the Carolina community,” Hawryluk told The Daily Tar Heel. “In a lot of ways, violent or graphic images that allude to sexual violence are triggers.”

Triggers are the big new thing on the politically-correct left. Students and professors all over the country are seizing on triggers as a way to censor art and ideas they don’t like because, they say, the art and ideas can prompt troubling and unwanted emotions in their tender minds.
According to Hawryluk version of Saturday night’s events, employees at Fitzgerald’s told her to leave the bar completely.

Lauren Shoaf, a spokeswoman for Fitzgerald’s, said Hawryluk was merely asked to leave the DJ booth.

Whatever the case, Hawryluk then began harassing Fitzgerald’s on social media for allowing a DJ to play the #2 pop song of 2013 in a crowded bar.

Dozens of other students supported her attack. “I just think its totally unacceptable for DJs in a college town – or anywhere – to play it,” junior (and DJ) Trevor Dougherty said, according to the Tar Heel. “As a good DJ you can do better than playing a track that is so overplayed and so insensitive.”