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I don't believe you can really know whats coming out of college campuses in the US, other than some opinions viewed through the lens of these few professors who
by taurath 11y ago
I don't believe you can really know whats coming out of college campuses in the US, other than some opinions viewed through the lens of these few professors who are pointing out outliers. You're getting the same grossly unbalanced viewpoint that would tell you that murders and rapes and child molestations are rampant if you viewed it through the lens of local or national news. Colleges are much more diverse than that, and people learn all sorts of opinions. The "over-victimhood" issue is something they'll encounter but don't think for a second that its the majority viewpoint. People are simply more sensitive now towards other people's struggles, and a natural overextension of that is the protectionism of perceived victims by shutting out perceived perpetrators, which simply does not have legs long term.
- talmand 11y agoThose few professors, the media, and the groups themselves say different. Thankfully colleges are very diverse. But like I said, this appears to be a growing trend that has affected real people beyond their feelings in college. I'm talking real long-term lasting effects that can ruin a person's life. I would say that this thing has been growing long enough that so far it seems to have quite strong legs in the long term since we've been dealing with political correctness since the early nineties at least.
- taurath 11y agoI honestly disagree - to me it fits too cleanly into the narrative that millennials are all coddled children who whine about everything which has been pushed for the past 15 years. The problem is of course, that depending on where you stand in relation to the issue and the people involved you can get completely different perspectives than someone else and both be correct from a particular point of view.