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The Leftist Offensive Continues on Campus

Jack Hays

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The age of campus Thought Police is here.

Now Trigger-Happy University Students | RealClearPolitics

Academia is hell. In the latest higher-education fad, students want "trigger warnings," according to The New York Times. It appears that some students are so fragile that they want university staff to protect them from big bad ideas.


Students around the country say they want "explicit alerts that the material they are about to read or see in a classroom might upset them or, as some students assert, cause symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in victims of rape or in war veterans." An Oberlin College draft -- now "under revision" -- for trigger warnings suggested faculty "be aware of racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, cissexism, ableism and other issues of privilege and oppression.". . .:peace
 
I've a business-law prof friend who was ordered by his chair after a student complaint about being called on in class and how stressful this was to provide all students with advance notification that they would be called on and also to provide the questions in advance.

Not kidding.
 
At least this is facing opposition form the sane forces in the universities. If you cannot take any of that you should not be going to university.
 
I have come to the conclusion that the children and young adults of the 60s, who are now in their 60s and in leadership positions of virtually every institution of higher education in America, are collectively one giant "one trick pony". They cut their teeth on fighting REAL injustices and never really moved beyond that. The world has changed but they haven't and in order to justify their existence they need to keep finding "injustices", no matter how obscure and inconsequential, to fight against.

It's like that can't accept the fact that they actually won and the world really did change. At this point I think they are getting dangerously close to the point where they are going to start to buying back what has already been sold.
 
Jack Hays said:
The age of campus Thought Police is here.

Now Trigger-Happy University Students | RealClearPolitics

Academia is hell. In the latest higher-education fad, students want "trigger warnings," according to The New York Times. It appears that some students are so fragile that they want university staff to protect them from big bad ideas.


Students around the country say they want "explicit alerts that the material they are about to read or see in a classroom might upset them or, as some students assert, cause symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in victims of rape or in war veterans." An Oberlin College draft -- now "under revision" -- for trigger warnings suggested faculty "be aware of racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, cissexism, ableism and other issues of privilege and oppression.". . .:peace
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Meanwhile, when teaching evolution....
 
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