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| Those 'Snowflakes' Have Chilling Effects Even Beyond the Campus |
| 2017-04-24 |
| [Manhattan Institute] Academic intolerance is the product of ideological aggression, not a psychological disorder. Student thuggery against non-leftist viewpoints is in the news again. Agitators at Claremont McKenna College, Middlebury College, and the University of California’s Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses have used threats, brute force and sometimes criminal violence over the past two months in efforts to prevent Milo Yiannopoulos, Charles Murray, Ann Coulter and me from speaking. As commencement season approaches, expect "traumatized" students to try to disinvite any remotely conservative speaker, an effort already under way at Notre Dame with regard to Vice President Mike Pence. This soft totalitarianism is routinely misdiagnosed as primarily a psychological disorder. Young "snowflakes," the thinking goes, have been overprotected by helicopter parents, and now are unprepared for the trivial conflicts of ordinary life. "The Coddling of the American Mind," a 2015 article in the Atlantic, was the most influential treatment of the psychological explanation. The movement to penalize certain ideas is "largely about emotional well-being," argued Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and Jonathan Haidt of New York University. The authors took activists’ claims of psychological injury at face value and proposed that freshmen orientations teach students cognitive behavioral therapy so as to preserve their mental health in the face of differing opinions. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 “intersectionality”—the campus-spawned notion that individuals who can check off multiple victim boxes experience exponentially higher and more complex levels of life-threatening oppression than lower-status single-category victims. You just can't make this stuff up. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2017-04-24 19:11 |
| #11 "When fascism comes to America it will be called anti-fascism", Huey Long (assassinated) referring to similar quotes by journalists in the 1930's. |
| Posted by: Nero White 3083 2017-04-24 17:37 |
| #10 IMO, it's just people who secretly know they're second rate acting out. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-04-24 16:37 |
| #9 "Academic intolerance is the product of ideological aggression |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-04-24 16:34 |
| #8 a non-pay link |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-04-24 15:28 |
| #7 So did nobody notice this article requires a paid subscription to read? Or did the original poster just assume everyone pays for the WSJ? |
| Posted by: Harcourt Angoluting9366 2017-04-24 15:05 |
| #6 Think unarmed Khmer Rouge or RedGuards living behind the shield of their university. When they leave the university setting and try similar tactics they will find they are unemployed and possible beaten. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-04-24 14:32 |
| #5 Maybe Police Departments need to know that any battery from "Antifa" personnel will be answered with force up to and including deadly. Maybe the Berkeley-style "stand down" BS will go away? Maybe I ask too many questions? |
| Posted by: Pliny Hatfield8470 2017-04-24 13:32 |
| #4 Sometimes, Skidmark, I think that maybe the Morlocks were actually the good guys. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-04-24 12:55 |
| #3 The Coddling of the American Mind Interesting, as if erasure or denial of facts manifests in a tangibly altered environment. Welcome to generation Eloi. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-04-24 10:18 |
| #2 A master of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) would/should have more sense than to attend, patronize, donate to, or even speak at, such mis-behaving destroyers of human cognition as these "academies". |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-04-24 09:59 |
| #1 Think Khmer Rouge or RedGuards |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-04-24 09:56 |