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Writing in The Atlantic recently, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt warn of the new "coddling" of college students: "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."
College is not supposed to be a "safe space," as one Yale student demanded. It is supposed to be a provocative environment -- broadening, not sheltering. When professors have to worry about showing famous paintings with topless women (degrading), and when they are instructed that "America is the land of opportunity" constitutes a micro-aggression, something is seriously amiss.
And that is scarier than any Halloween costume.
The thing is, these universities are controlled and dominated by liberals. How can they possibly stand this horror show down without confronting the leftist's political correctness agenda and its identity politics agenda?
It really does not appear that they can, nor is it easy to imagine them gathering the courage and commitment to take on these difficult and now apparently controversial tasks.
In this modern era, when college kids take photos of everything, when video emerges of virtually everything that takes place on campus, how is that there is no eye witness who can say that a poopswastika ever even existed?
Not one person. "
"2. Mizzou's student body president, Payton Head, a gay black man, accused unknown and never found perpetrators in a red truck of hurling racial slurs at him off campus.
Assuming that this incident even happened, how is Mizzou responsible for what a non-student says off campus?
Isn't it more significant that Mizzou students elected a gay black man campus president? And that Mizzou almost universally supported Michael Sam, a gay black man who became the first athlete to go public with his homosexuality? Does that sound like a campus with inclusiveness issues to you? Would a divided, racist campus have a gay black student as its top representative and have offered nearly universal support and acceptance to Sam? "
From lefty Ruth Marcus at the Washington Post:
The thing is, these universities are controlled and dominated by liberals. How can they possibly stand this horror show down without confronting the leftist's political correctness agenda and its identity politics agenda?
It really does not appear that they can, nor is it easy to imagine them gathering the courage and commitment to take on these difficult and now apparently controversial tasks.
I read the quote you cited and had to go look up what a "micro-aggression" was.
Holy crap. What a generation of thin skinned, easily offended, coddled babies. I fear for the future, I really do.
The beauty of all this is that liberals are falling victim to their own stupid and destructive policies and ideology. The graduate student lost his health care insurance onec the ACA became law, and professors and administrators are being fired by the unruly mobs of libs who think the seriousness of the charge makes people guilty first.
There is a lot of "backstory" that is not being reported much.
The 'graduate student' has been at Mizzou for 8 years - he is 25 years old.
His Daddy made $8.4 Million dollars last year and Butler can stay on Daddy's Insurance until he is 26 under Obamacare. He has NO "insurance problem". He is an Activist and he is also behind ALL the groups that are "protesting". The Grad Students, the Faculty and the 1950 group. He was in Ferguson protesting the day after Michael Brown was killed. Agenda, Agenda, Agenda - he is playing them all like violins, while he is "afraid for his life" and willing to "Die for the Cause".
I read the quote you cited and had to go look up what a "micro-aggression" was.
Holy crap. What a generation of thin skinned, easily offended, coddled babies. I fear for the future, I really do.
I'm sure there's someone out there who's actually afflicted with thin skin who's now offended. Way to go, *******!
Although some disagreement on here, everyone is in agreement that the college is coddling the issue and the students and it's only a matter of time before this issue becomes unreportable. I don't recall any issue on here where we all agree in a central theme on a given topic.
How the university of Missouri is getting any national attention, besides embarassmemt, is bewildering. Maybe some grief counselors can be flown in or pallets of tissues.
There is a lot of "backstory" that is not being reported much.
The 'graduate student' has been at Mizzou for 8 years - he is 25 years old.
His Daddy made $8.4 Million dollars last year and Butler can stay on Daddy's Insurance until he is 26 under Obamacare. He has NO "insurance problem". He is an Activist and he is also behind ALL the groups that are "protesting". The Grad Students, the Faculty and the 1950 group. He was in Ferguson protesting the day after Michael Brown was killed. Agenda, Agenda, Agenda - he is playing them all like violins, while he is "afraid for his life" and willing to "Die for the Cause".
Poor kid. Why should you expect him to graduate in less than 8 years. Your standards are too high.
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where is the content to keep going on this?
