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You're absolutely correct, and this illuminates an aspect of the controversy that I don't think gets quite enough coverage: where did the social justice/progres
by twblalock 10y ago
You're absolutely correct, and this illuminates an aspect of the controversy that I don't think gets quite enough coverage: where did the social justice/progressive left students learn about the terminology and ideology they advocate?
They almost certainly didn't learn it in high school, from their peers in high school, or from their parents. (Although that may be changing.)
They learned these things at the university, from professors, and from fellow students who learned from the same professors.
In other words, academia brought this situation upon itself by teaching these things to students -- -- so I'm rather leery of analyses which blame millennials for pushing a self-indulgent worldview on universities. If the same ideas had been taught to previous generations of students, they too would have advocated trigger warnings and safe spaces.
- blhack 10y ago>They learned these things at the university, from professors, and from fellow students who learned from the same professors. I know what all of these things mean, and I didn't learn any of them from college, I learned them from reading blog posts and things online.
- twblalock 10y agoI'm sure a lot of other people did too, but I suspect the vast majority of college students never heard those things until they arrived at college.