I demand that Jeannie change her last name. It's distressful and offensive.
The Red Guard arises in America.
GROUPTHINK
Well, actually they are already doing that. That’s what “Sensitivity Training” is all about.
Wow, what a great article!!! Thank you so much for posting this!!
- Megan
Today they come into Interviews with a highly over-inflated opinion of themselves and a resume stretched so far beyond reality it's easy to see they live in a false world they've created in their own minds.
Once hired they discover company “rules” and protocol to abide by but consistently attempt to bypass or change them all together...they are combative and constantly whine about their rights in one form or another and worse seek to “educate” those they work with.
I personally and easily avoid the youth of today....they're mindless and simple minded robots easily mis-led and stupid when it comes to the real world and how it functions...they get in the way like sniffling brats under your feet.
It’s interesting that this and related topics are suddenly getting so much play in “The Altantic” and similar organs of elite opinion. Could it be that the people who are Better Than Us are noticing that their rising generation has so little intestinal fortitude that they may end up blowing the whole scam?
Elites do tend to degenerate through the generations, eventually resulting in replacement by a new elite ...
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.
Lotus eaters. Wait until they get out in the world
What is the end goal here? Making people (including academics) afraid to say ANYTHING, unless it is scripted and pre-approved by some bureaucrat somewhere.
BFL
Didn’t we already see this in Red China under Mao? Has the Red Guard arrived on college campuses?
It is even more fitting in the light of most recent events. Thanks. Grace and peace thru the Lord Jesus.
Two terms have risen quickly from obscurity into common campus parlance. Microaggressions are small actions or word choices that seem on their face to have no malicious intent but that are thought of as a kind of violence nonetheless. For example, by some campus guidelines, it is a microaggression to ask an Asian American or Latino American “Where were you born?,†because this implies that he or she is not a real American. Trigger warnings are alerts that professors are expected to issue if something in a course might cause a strong emotional response. For example, some students have called for warnings that Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart describes racial violence and that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby portrays misogyny and physical abuse, so that students who have been previously victimized by racism or domestic violence can choose to avoid these works, which they believe might “trigger†a recurrence of past trauma.
vindictive protectiveness teaches students to think in a very different way. It prepares them poorly for professional life, which often demands intellectual engagement with people and ideas one might find uncongenial or wrong.
The new protectiveness may be teaching students to think pathologically.
Many Baby Boomers and Gen Xers can remember riding their bicycles around their hometowns, unchaperoned by adults, by the time they were 8 or 9 years old. In the hours after school, kids were expected to occupy themselves, getting into minor scrapes and learning from their experiences. But “free range†childhood became less common in the 1980s. The surge in crime from the ’60s through the early ’90s made Baby Boomer parents more protective than their own parents had been.
In a variety of ways, children born after 1980—the Millennials—got a consistent message from adults: life is dangerous, but adults will do everything in their power to protect you from harm, not just from strangers but from one another as well. - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/
And those liberal professors are surprised, just why?
They are merely reaping what they sowed.
This outcome is THEIR fault.
I know this isn't exactly a homeschool article, but homeschoolers are going to be sending their kids off to college some day and they need to know what they're facing.
In general, I don't see homeschool parent mollycoddling their children the way public schools do to the kids attending them.
I think not.
I blame it on the name of A bully is mean to me that has been TAUGHT to these poor, fragile people.
Never having to get poked in the eye by fighting back when they were young (tell an ADULT; they will handle it), they are ill equipped to accept the pushback that is NOW coming home to roost.
We teach them this in grade school; so why not!?
There are NO winners; just game players.
Here's a plastic 'trophy' for your participation.
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.
Interesting. Two comedians. One quite acerbic from his political speech. They are concerned because and oversensitive youth is bad business for them.