More 'poor baby' accommodations. Good thing today’s college students aren’t frequenting America’s
suburban driveways or playground blacktops. Fanciful chalk drawings and
scribbles are routinely found there — the handiwork, in most American
towns, of the happy-go-lucky pre-K set. But words or scribblings in colorful chalk are too much to ... MORE
Showing posts with label microagression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label microagression. Show all posts
Deirdre Reilly: Chalk It Up To Lifelong Coddling
More 'poor baby' accommodations. Good thing today’s college students aren’t frequenting America’s
suburban driveways or playground blacktops. Fanciful chalk drawings and
scribbles are routinely found there — the handiwork, in most American
towns, of the happy-go-lucky pre-K set. But words or scribblings in colorful chalk are too much to ... MORERattled Students Demand Protection From Chalk Message
by Robby Soave. As anyone who has spent five seconds at a college can attest, sidewalks
covered in chalk messages are a pretty common fixture of the campus
scene. But Emory University students had their delicate worldview shaken
by the sudden appearance of one specific chalk message, "Trump 2016,"
all over campus. The students were so ... MORE4-Year-Old Boy Recommended For Counter-Terrorism Program After Saying 'Cooker Bomb' Instead Of 'Cucumber'
by Lenore Skenazy. In Britain, the inmates are running the asylum. A 4-year-old boy who mispronounced the word "cucumber" as "cooker bomb" so freaked out his pre-school teachers that they recommended him for a de-radicalization program. This happened in Britain, where nursery staff clearly couldn't keep a stiff upper lip when faced with all the ... MORERichard W. Rahn: Tyranny And Free Speech
Censorship has become a hallmark of the Obama era. Do you support free speech? How about free speech for climate change skeptics? For homophobes? For racists? For sexists? For white males? For even Donald Trump? Those who defend free speech, as did the American Founding Fathers, understand it is not about defending speech you agree ... MOREThe Regrettable Decline Of Higher Learning
by Victor Davis Hanson. Political correctness has taken a toll. What do campus microaggressions, safe spaces, trigger warnings, speech codes, and censorship have to do with higher learning? American universities want it both ways. They expect unquestioned subsidized support from the public, but also to operate in a way impossible for anyone else. ... MOREVictimhood Has Become A Badge Of Honor On Campus
by Alex Pfeiffer. Weaklings now revered. A journal article by two sociologists suggests the rise of microaggressions stems from a culture of victimhood that celebrates the aggrieved and perceives them as virtuous martyrs – most notably on college campuses. Making matters worse, this perception is fostered by administrations that coddle and ... MOREHow Helicoptered Kids Become Hypersensitive Students
by Lenore Skenazy. Creating the scaredy cat generation. This is the article everyone’s talking about: “The Coddling of the American Mind,” by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, on the cover of this month’s Atlantic.
It discusses the idea taking root on college campuses that students
cannot be exposed to ideas, words, or phrases that ... MOREWalter E Williams: Academic Fascism
Boogeymen everywhere. George Orwell said, "There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them." If one wants to discover the truth of Orwell's statement, he need only step upon most college campuses. Faculty leaders of the University of California consider certain statements racism and feel they should not be used in ... MORE
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