I sit on a university committee that advises our administration on matters dealing with religion (I got dibs to serve on it as the most visible Orthodox Christian on campus). Our university has a student body divided between the sort described in the article and a large body of fairly committed evangelical protestants. This has the advantage to academic freedom of the sort of feminists who need fainting couches and smelling salts (oh, sorry, trigger warnings)* not having reached critical mass, but leads to conflicts between students of the sort described in the article and the committed protestants.
I’ve been advocating both classical tolerance — learning to put up with the fact that your neighbor or classmate may be dead wrong about some issue, and not maltreating him or her for it for the sake of social peace and liberty — and “insensitivity training”, not learning how to treat others insensitively, but learning how not to be sensitive to slights, real or imagined. Somewhat amusingly, the committee member who serves as a representative of the “Nones” (atheists, agnostics) is the strongest supporter of my positions.
*I hope that wasn’t a micro-aggression. I was shooting for a deci-aggression, or at minimum a centi-aggression.
Oh gee, what a lot of nonsense you go through to put out a simple declarative sentence sans footnotes.
I love the Insensitivity Training idea. Should be a required course.
These folks are NOT stupid; just mis- or un- informed about GOD.
That OFFENDS me!!!