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Colleges prioritized people feeling safe and produced generation afraid to fail

3 points by Jimmc414 4y ago

PaulHoule 4y ago
I was a victim of bullying in primary school and college. I was looking at some papers just a moment ago about the lifelong damage it does to every aspect of people’s lives. I guess people like Sam Altman can afford to send their kids to safe schools but for most of it it is a luxury we can’t afford. Maybe it is a good thing my potential was crushed as much as it was because if I got rich like Sam Altman and had the money I would create an NGO that finds bullied kids and sues school districts out of existence.
- nh23423fefe 4y ago
  I don't agree with the tweet, but you didn't even engage. What does being bullied by peers have to do with the alleged coddling of undergraduates by college administrators and professors?
  - PaulHoule 4y ago
    He is not even using the full 140 characters, the one relevant word is ‘safe’. I am engaging with the tweet and not the coded meaning of the tweet. Sure, this is Twitter and really this message is not an attempt to communicate and is not meaningful in itself but rather it is a coded message to a certain tribe. Maybe members of that tribe will buy Sam’s shitcoin to ‘own the libs’ or something. (Good thing that women of all sorts seem to be too smart to buy into an ‘empowerment’ coin.) To be painfully specific I hold the teachers and administration of schools I attended responsible for not just allowing but actively supporting and sometimes joining the bullying. Maybe it is different today but I certainly was not coddled in any way. If he really has something to say he should be more specific but reading what he says at face value it sounds like ‘safe’ is not something colleges should be… Maybe they should defend the campus police, allow violent criminal gangs to function in campus the way my old school did, etc. As annoying as ‘woke’ can be, I’d take ‘woke’ any day over the school being an active supporter of harassment of LGBTQ people plus straights who are supportive or perceived to be supportive of them. (This was the early 1990s and these dumbasses were too scared to bash real gay people because they might get AIDS or something.)
dieselgate 4y ago
This tweet seems more than a bit off-the-cuff and isn't really specific enough to convey meaningful information. Are we talking grade inflation, research objectives, or physical safety (in response to violence or similar) etc.

3 points by Jimmc414 4y ago

I was a victim of bullying in primary school and college. I was looking at some papers just a moment ago about the lifelong damage it does to every aspect of people’s lives. I guess people like Sam Altman can afford to send their kids to safe schools but for most of it it is a luxury we can’t afford. Maybe it is a good thing my potential was crushed as much as it was because if I got rich like Sam Altman and had the money I would create an NGO that finds bullied kids and sues school districts out of existence.

nh23423fefe 4y ago
I don't agree with the tweet, but you didn't even engage. What does being bullied by peers have to do with the alleged coddling of undergraduates by college administrators and professors?
- PaulHoule 4y ago
  He is not even using the full 140 characters, the one relevant word is ‘safe’. I am engaging with the tweet and not the coded meaning of the tweet. Sure, this is Twitter and really this message is not an attempt to communicate and is not meaningful in itself but rather it is a coded message to a certain tribe. Maybe members of that tribe will buy Sam’s shitcoin to ‘own the libs’ or something. (Good thing that women of all sorts seem to be too smart to buy into an ‘empowerment’ coin.) To be painfully specific I hold the teachers and administration of schools I attended responsible for not just allowing but actively supporting and sometimes joining the bullying. Maybe it is different today but I certainly was not coddled in any way. If he really has something to say he should be more specific but reading what he says at face value it sounds like ‘safe’ is not something colleges should be… Maybe they should defend the campus police, allow violent criminal gangs to function in campus the way my old school did, etc. As annoying as ‘woke’ can be, I’d take ‘woke’ any day over the school being an active supporter of harassment of LGBTQ people plus straights who are supportive or perceived to be supportive of them. (This was the early 1990s and these dumbasses were too scared to bash real gay people because they might get AIDS or something.)

dieselgate 4y ago

This tweet seems more than a bit off-the-cuff and isn't really specific enough to convey meaningful information. Are we talking grade inflation, research objectives, or physical safety (in response to violence or similar) etc.