Posted on 08/11/2015 10:05:51 AM PDT by Veto!
In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like. Here’s why that’s disastrous for education—and mental health.
Something strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense. Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for The New Yorker about law students asking her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law—or, in one case, even use the word violate (as in “that violates the law”) lest it cause students distress. In February, Laura Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University, wrote an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education describing a new campus politics of sexual paranoia—and was then subjected to a long investigation after students who were offended by the article and by a tweet she’d sent filed Title IX complaints against her. In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. “I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me,” the headline said. A number of popular comedians, including Chris Rock, have stopped performing on college campuses (see Caitlin Flanagan’s article in this month’s issue). Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Maher have publicly condemned the oversensitivity of college students, saying too many of them can’t take a joke.
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Turn it on at NIGHT!
That OFFENDS me!!!
Andrew Marshall even argues that it is shaping Chinese society in unexpected ways that may culminate into a future “behavioral time-bomb.”
(See also — Princess Sickness)
Just go back to the Cultural Revolution in Mao’s China. They ended up murdering their teachers, anyone who disagreed with them, or anyone they just didn’t like.
Related - Kupelian has a new book out - The Snapping of the American Mind.
It’s how the left (under direction of the prince of this world, obviously) has purposefully stressed us out to the point that many people are snapping.
You jest, but it IS obvious that leftists have taken this concept to the point of absurdity
wherein ANY standard of measure is “offensive”.
I would say any specific logic that attempts to narrow down a concept to a truth would be “offensive” to them.
As a general statement, truth is offensive.
Interesting. Two comedians. One quite acerbic from his political speech. They are concerned because and oversensitive youth is bad business for them.
Based on what my eldest has told me about his college, it doesn’t sound as if the vast majority of students are “triggered” by “microaggressions” (lol).
Without a doubt, some students are, but maybe not the majority.
My kids have met a few but for the most part is every man for himself.
Those precious little snowflakes better pray they don’t meet up with my daughter.
She doesn’t have the inclination to worry about protecting their precious little feelings.
You are right, but they also have a culture all their own, which is usually intolerant of religion (cf. Richard Dawkins or the kiddie version of Dawkins and his ilk — atheist posters to the Yahoo! Answers Religion and Spirituality forum) and tends to align with the worst excess of political correctness (yes, Bill Maher is an exception — a politically incorrect public atheist, but I think it goes with his job as a professional scoffer), so there is something a bit curious about my fellow committee member being forthrightly for real tolerance and people not being prickly about perceived slights.
Curious?
The Lord’s working on him!
(As HE does ALL of us...)
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