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Probably the same thing that makes you so sensitive about students at a place you have very little stake in being too sensitive? I mean tink about it. The thing
by nmrm2 11y ago
Probably the same thing that makes you so sensitive about students at a place you have very little stake in being too sensitive? I mean tink about it. The things that a very miniscule portion of Princeton students choose to complain about can't possibly have any impact on your life unless you choose to care about it.
Clearly, people get offended at all sorts of things for all sorts of reasons all the time. Students aren't a special exception and this is hardly a new phenomenon (even if the Internet makes it more observable). If you don't believe me go read the 1 star reviews on Yelp and co. or the comments on your local newspaper's website. Or read your own comment.
The only difference between the inanity of every-day outrage/argument and students at universities complaining about something like cultural appropriate is that it's young liberals at universities complaining. People love complaining about each of those things individually, so their confluence is click-bait heaven.
To flip the table: what makes people who complain about young liberals at universities being too sensitive so sensitive? It's incredible.
It's not so much that I disagree with the concrete free-speech-promoting policies associated with your position on this issue. But complaining about over-sensitivity is just so silly; it's as if the irony of complaining about complaining is completely lost on everyone who talks about this topic.
- newjersey 11y agoOur actions have consequences. I like to ask people what they think about people blocking highways to protest against Donald Trump. People doing dumb things like blocking highways in protest of Trump or pulling his leg in a really makes it easy for his campaign to lump everyone who says he is not fit for office into one group. Similarly, people who are sensitive about stupid stuff makes it easy for people to lump everyone who has a grievance together into "them" and dismiss their grievances at once. Think the boy who cried wolf but rather than just that one boy getting mauled, it is every single shepherd boy who gets mauled.
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- nmrm2 11y agoThis doesn't actually excuse the lumping of people together, and doesn't make the generalized observations about those groups of people any more or less true... Anyways, this bit of real politic is completely immaterial to my original point, which is that it's stupid and inconsistent to complain about other people's complaining. In particular because your observation about perception works the other way as well.
- mc32 11y agoI think the main difference is that my complaint is against suffocating free speech while their example is about stifling it. I prefer people to be free to express themselves in cacophony over speaking in stifling unison.