The Coddling of the American Mind

The Atlantic ^ | September 2015 Issue | GREG LUKIANOFF AND JONATHAN HAIDT

[Elsie]

Turn it on at NIGHT!

[NorthMountain]

You use Metric System aggression.

That OFFENDS me!!!

[Elsie]

...the Millennials got a consistent message from adults: life is dangerous, but adults will do everything in their power to protect you from harm, not just from strangers but from one another as well.

TADA!

[Elsie]

Andrew Marshall even argues that it is shaping Chinese society in unexpected ways that may culminate into a future “behavioral time-bomb.”

(See also — Princess Sickness)

[Jack Hydrazine]

Just go back to the Cultural Revolution in Mao’s China. They ended up murdering their teachers, anyone who disagreed with them, or anyone they just didn’t like.

[MrB]

Related - Kupelian has a new book out - The Snapping of the American Mind.

It’s how the left (under direction of the prince of this world, obviously) has purposefully stressed us out to the point that many people are snapping.

[MrB]

You jest, but it IS obvious that leftists have taken this concept to the point of absurdity

wherein ANY standard of measure is “offensive”.

[NorthMountain]

Reductio ad absurdum is probably a mega-aggression to the Special Snowflakes.

[MrB]

I would say any specific logic that attempts to narrow down a concept to a truth would be “offensive” to them.

As a general statement, truth is offensive.

[redleghunter]

Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Maher have publicly condemned the oversensitivity of college students, saying too many of them can’t take a joke.

Interesting. Two comedians. One quite acerbic from his political speech. They are concerned because and oversensitive youth is bad business for them.

[Tired of Taxes]

Based on what my eldest has told me about his college, it doesn’t sound as if the vast majority of students are “triggered” by “microaggressions” (lol).

Without a doubt, some students are, but maybe not the majority.

[metmom]

My kids have met a few but for the most part is every man for himself.

Those precious little snowflakes better pray they don’t meet up with my daughter.

She doesn’t have the inclination to worry about protecting their precious little feelings.

[The_Reader_David]

You are right, but they also have a culture all their own, which is usually intolerant of religion (cf. Richard Dawkins or the kiddie version of Dawkins and his ilk — atheist posters to the Yahoo! Answers Religion and Spirituality forum) and tends to align with the worst excess of political correctness (yes, Bill Maher is an exception — a politically incorrect public atheist, but I think it goes with his job as a professional scoffer), so there is something a bit curious about my fellow committee member being forthrightly for real tolerance and people not being prickly about perceived slights.

[Elsie]

Curious?

The Lord’s working on him!

(As HE does ALL of us...)