PC Madness at Unis: Coddling of the American mind

[Black Heart]

I have noticed that there is a certain number of Americans in the 20s today and a little older (born around 1978 and onward) that are completely lost when it comes to PC.

They often mis-label things are "racist" or "sexist."

Other nationalities have noticed this.

Here's an article:


The Coddling of the American Mind

In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like. Here’s why that’s disastrous for education—and mental health.


Andrew B. Myers / The Atlantic


GREG LUKIANOFF AND JONATHAN HAIDT
SEPTEMBER 2015 ISSUE

Something strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. 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. Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for The New Yorker about law students asking her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law—or, in one case, even use the word violate (as in “that violates the law”) lest it cause students distress. In February, Laura Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University, wrote an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education describing a new campus politics of sexual paranoia—and was then subjected to a long investigation after students who were offended by the article and by a tweet she’d sent filed Title IX complaints against her.

In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. “I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me,” the headline said. A number of popular comedians, including Chris Rock, have stopped performing on college campuses (see Caitlin Flanagan’s article in this month’s issue). Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Maher have publicly condemned the oversensitivity of college students, saying too many of them can’t take a joke.

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.

Some recent campus actions border on the surreal. In April, at Brandeis University, the Asian American student association sought to raise awareness of microaggressions against Asians through an installation on the steps of an academic hall. The installation gave examples of microaggressions such as “Aren’t you supposed to be good at math?” and “I’m colorblind! I don’t see race.” But a backlash arose among other Asian American students, who felt that the display itself was a microaggression. The association removed the installation, and its president wrote an e-mail to the entire student body apologizing to anyone who was “triggered or hurt by the content of the microaggressions.”

According to the most-basic tenets of psychology, helping people with anxiety disorders avoid the things they fear is misguided.

This new climate is slowly being institutionalized, and is affecting what can be said in the classroom, even as a basis for discussion. During the 2014–15 school year, for instance, the deans and department chairs at the 10 University of California system schools were presented by administrators at faculty leader-training sessions with examples of microaggressions. The list of offensive statements included: “America is the land of opportunity” and “I believe the most qualified person should get the job.”
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How Trigger Warnings Are Hurting Mental Health on Campus - The Atlantic

How Trigger Warnings Are Hurting Mental Health on Campus - The Atlantic

[Storekeeper]

^ What, you don't want in on the "War On Old White Men"? ... ... Are you rejecting "white privilege"?

[VocalNeal]

PC will be the end of civilization as we know it.

[Boon Mee]

^ What, you don't want in on the "War On Old White Men"? ... ... Are you rejecting "white privilege"?

Summed up in one graphic:



BTW, the Irish are the best argument against this White Privilege thing.

[AntRobertson]

Yeah, because if history has shown us anything it's that White Christian Males have suffered terrible injustice and oppression.

As to "PC", it's just a pejorative. People act like racism etc didn't exist prior to 'PC gone mad!' when PC itself as a concept only came into common usage in the early '90's. Hard to escape the conclusion sometimes that some of those who rail against PC do so because they'd really rather prefer to still be able to call other people niggers/faggots/etc.

[bsnub]

^ What, you don't want in on the "War On Old White Men"? ... ... Are you rejecting "white privilege"?

Summed up in one graphic:



BTW, the Irish are the best argument against this White Privilige thing.

A dying group of old racist geriatrics who are mind controlled by fox news. Good riddance. Burn in the abyss.

[Boon Mee]

Sure do miss Blackgang on this here Forum.

Boy had a lot of innate intelligence...

[Humbert]

A new class of victims. Downtrodden, misunderstood old white men. Bwwaaaah! Where's Itnt? This thread is perfect for him.

[bsnub]

Sure do miss Blackgang on this here Forum.

He is dead and that further reinforced my point old man.

[AntRobertson]

Sure do miss Blackgang on this here Forum.

You mean that cantankerous old racist that wished physical harm to other posters?

Nah, I don't miss him.

Boy had a lot of innate intelligence...

You don't know what "innate intelligence" means do you.

[bsnub]

A new class of victims. Downtrodden, misunderstood old white men. Bwwaaaah! Where's Itnt? This thread is perfect for him.

Sick bastards none-less. I hate these sickos.

[Black Heart]

This thread and PC has NOTHING to do with white people or white males or Christians.

Please read the article in the OP.

[AntRobertson]

This thread and PC has NOTHING to do with white people or white males or Christians.

Please read the article in the OP.

I beg to differ. I think is has EVERYTHING to do white people/males and Christians (though perhaps less so for the latter).

[Boon Mee]

You don't know what "innate intelligence" means do you.

Heh... well, he certainly wasn't stuck in some factory job in CM now was he?

[AntRobertson]

You don't know what "innate intelligence" means do you.

Heh... well, he certainly wasn't stuck in some factory job in CM now was he?

What has a factory job in CM got to do with anything. You're just channeling every dumb thing Smeg has ever said aren't you.

And you complain about others offering nothing but abuse and one-liners...

[Boon Mee]

You don't know what "innate intelligence" means do you.

Heh... well, he certainly wasn't stuck in some factory job in CM now was he?

What has a factory job in CM got to do with anything. You're just channeling every dumb thing Smeg has ever said aren't you.

And you complain about others offering nothing but abuse and one-liners...

...don't take it personally.

[AntRobertson]

Why would I: it's not personal, it's just dumb stuff that you're parroting from Smeg.

[bsnub]

This thread and PC has NOTHING to do with white people or white males or Christians.

You are insane.

[Boon Mee]

Why would I: it's not personal, it's just dumb stuff that you're parroting from Smeg.

It's not from Smeg but Mai Pen Rai.

Chai Yen Yen

[Storekeeper]

Yeah, because if history has shown us anything it's that White Christian Males have suffered terrible injustice and oppression.

As to "PC", it's just a pejorative. People act like racism etc didn't exist prior to 'PC gone mad!' when PC itself as a concept only came into common usage in the early '90's. Hard to escape the conclusion sometimes that some of those who rail against PC do so because they'd really rather prefer to still be able to call other people niggers/faggots/etc.

Seems "white privilege" is the new buzz phrase. I'm not keen on buying into it 100%.

[Boon Mee]

Yeah, because if history has shown us anything it's that White Christian Males have suffered terrible injustice and oppression.

As to "PC", it's just a pejorative. People act like racism etc didn't exist prior to 'PC gone mad!' when PC itself as a concept only came into common usage in the early '90's. Hard to escape the conclusion sometimes that some of those who rail against PC do so because they'd really rather prefer to still be able to call other people niggers/faggots/etc.

Seems "white privilege" is the new buzz phrase. I'm not keen on buying into it 100%.

You mean you don't feel guilty you were born White? And all those other folks haven't had the the advantages you've had?

[AntRobertson]

Why would I: it's not personal, it's just dumb stuff that you're parroting from Smeg.

It's not from Smeg but Mai Pen Rai.

Chai Yen Yen

Well wherever it's from it's a random and bizarre thing to suddenly be bringing into this thread.

I don't know why you think it upsets me in the slightest, I don't now and nor have I ever had 'some factory job in CM'. So it just makes you look more than a touch silly and hypocritical.

[Boon Mee]

Why would I: it's not personal, it's just dumb stuff that you're parroting from Smeg.

It's not from Smeg but Mai Pen Rai.

Chai Yen Yen

Well wherever it's from it's a random and bizarre thing to suddenly be bringing into this thread.

I don't know why you think it upsets me in the slightest, I don't now and nor have I ever had 'some factory job in CM'. So it just makes you look more than a touch silly and hypocritical.

Be cool, Ant...

[AntRobertson]

Booners, if you think you're winding me up with your silly comments it's only a statement about how silly and childish you are.

[Storekeeper]

Yeah, because if history has shown us anything it's that White Christian Males have suffered terrible injustice and oppression.

As to "PC", it's just a pejorative. People act like racism etc didn't exist prior to 'PC gone mad!' when PC itself as a concept only came into common usage in the early '90's. Hard to escape the conclusion sometimes that some of those who rail against PC do so because they'd really rather prefer to still be able to call other people niggers/faggots/etc.

Seems "white privilege" is the new buzz phrase. I'm not keen on buying into it 100%.

You mean you don't feel guilty you were born White? And all those other folks haven't had the the advantages you've had?

No, I don't feel guilty. I grew up poor and sometimes on welfare. And I lived in the era where affirmative action programs have been around for over 30-40 years. And being a career military person I witnessed minorities benefitting from programs that righted many wrongs. I still think there is work to be done but I haven't much sympathy for many minorities under the age of 40 ... especially those under 25 still wanking about the wrongs committed against their ancestors.