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It's not speculation. "No platforming", "safe spaces", "trigger warnings"... are all relatively recent inventions. Universities have always been left leaning, b
by malvosenior 7y ago
It's not speculation. "No platforming", "safe spaces", "trigger warnings"... are all relatively recent inventions. Universities have always been left leaning, but the "moral grandstanding" mentioned in the original post is a more recent development.
- watwut 7y agoMoral majority, letter campaigns to FCC, christian boycott of immoral companies, comic code, Hayes code ... civil rights era boycotts.
- malvosenior 7y agoI agree that those are all terrible as well! The reason I don't think they lead to "moral grandstanding" that we see discussed in the OP is because they were fundamentally outward focused, in that they were meant to accomplish something (misguided and pointless as they may be). Whereas the items I list are very much about in-group signaling. Hence "grandstanding".
- watwut 7y agoNo platforming, safe spaces and trigger warnings are all outwardly focused. Especially no platforming and trigger warnings. The dynamic within christian groups that leads to a the things I described all have considerable in-group signaling component. Also, some level of that in-group signaling is functional - people don't just randomly take coordinated actions like that. The signaling component is likely necessary for the organization to happen.