http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid
Very related - a professor is “scared” of contradicting/correcting his students when what he teaches goes against their feelings, because “Emotional discomfort is [now] regarded as equivalent to material injury, and all injuries have to be remediated.”
Tumblr has invaded the classroom, what will happen when it invades the workplace?
Such an “offensive” complaint was made against me this year. I had used the word “disgusting” in a question to see if students understood why the Venus of Willendorf was so heavy, and few used the word “disgusting,” but one student was still offended. (She is a 4” tall, very curvaceous statue of a goddess from 15,000 B.C. showing the forms that led to survival back then, unlike our much thinner preferences today.)
It wasn’t even in a political context. She leveled two even more minor complaints, and the administration was too weak to judge nonsense from real problems. Yet it was terrifying to be told that I had to meet with HR about “discriminatory” comments made in class. I worried for days until we finally met. It’s enough to think about early retirement.