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The Tools of Campus Activists Are Being Turned Against Them
- jseliger 10y agoThis story is both entertaining and depressing. Still, it echoes some of the themes I wrote about in "The race to the bottom of victimhood and 'social justice' culture:" http://jakeseliger.com/2016/01/28/the-race-to-the-bottom-of-victimhood-and-social-justice-culture/ http://jakeseliger.com/2016/01/28/the-race-to-the-bottom-of-...: I’ve seen the offendedness sweepstakes play out in classrooms. It’s ugly. It’s also impossible to adjudicate different people’s different levels of offendedness because there’s no real standard to compare one person’s level of offense to another’s. I can tell whether a paper is poorly written or well written or whether an argument is well-researched or poorly researched, but I can’t tell whether student x has a better “claim” to victimhood than student y.
- mindslight 10y agoI generally don't find screeds about "leftists" terribly worthwhile, but boy was Kaczynski on point regarding oversocialization.