[PeterPrinciple]

Three Great Untruths.

The first of those is, as they call it, the Untruth of Fragility. That is the idea that what doesn’t kill you makes you weaker, and therefore young people must be protected against everything from a stray peanut to hearing any “hateful” ideas.
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The second great untruth is that you should trust and follow your emotions. Emotions frequently get in the way of sound reasoning, but young people are often told that because they feel that something is true, then it really is true.
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And third is the Us Versus Them Untruth—the erroneous view that the world is divided into good people and evil people.

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from the article.

[SJSAMPLE]

They HAVE to coddle the minds of their students. They spent decades turning them into MUSH.

[central_va]

[Lurkinanloomin]

Found your candidate for 2020 yet?

[RoosterRedux]

Lukianoff and Haidt were interviewed by NPR (I heard the interview yesterday in my truck).

Couldn't believe what I was hearing.

Sounds like an excellent book.

[PeterPrinciple]

What should college leaders do to reverse course?

First, they should endorse the University of Chicago’s statement regarding free speech on campus.

Second, they must never allow students to wield the “heckler’s veto.”

Third, schools should strive for more viewpoint diversity in their hiring.

Fourth, schools should “educate for productive disagreement.” That is, they should make sure that students see demonstrations of rational disagreement between reasonable people. One way to do that is to set up campus debates

Fifth, explicitly reject the Us Versus Them untruth. How? By “encouraging politeness and empathy without framing issues as microaggressions”

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From the article for those that didn’t read it. Sounds good but few in position of leaders will break thru. But we do have an example in Trump so all should be encouraged.

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[Sergio]

bkmk

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Great article, and a book I will read.

Thanks for posting.

[Alberta's Child]

Even a radical leftist like Van Jones finds this nonsense on college campuses troubling:

Van Jones on Campus 'Safe Spaces'

[The Westerner]

Read this later. FIRE is an excellent org. Let’s hope this book begins a new discourse on the zeitgeist of American culture!

[robowombat]

‘That is the idea that what doesn’t kill you makes you weaker, and therefore young people must be protected against everything from a stray peanut to hearing any “hateful” ideas. Drawing an analogy to the human immune system, which can’t develop unless it occasionally has something to fight against, the authors say that trying to shield students against stressful ideas results in their weakness and anxiety. And when students haven’t learned to cope with ideological adversity, they’re apt to retreat into “safe spaces” or lash out with anger or even violence.’

By the summer of 1917 the British were sending 18 year old and above males to the Western Front 12 weeks after induction into the Royal Army. No AIT, no specialized weapons training, three months in uniform and you are off to the Ypers Salient or Arras or some other garden spot. Now male graduate students in their twenties cower in ‘safe spaces’ if someone plays Limbaugh on their radio. Something very, very bad is coming hidden out there in the future.

[Albion Wilde]

Here's the article from The Atlantic discussed in the opening post:

The Coddling of the American Mind

[Albion Wilde]

Two FR threads from when "Coddling" was first published in 2015:

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3374886/posts

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3323385/posts