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I think the issue is that students are feeling less comfortable with expressing and exploring their views, which is a key part of learning. My friends and I all

I think the issue is that students are feeling less comfortable with expressing and exploring their views, which is a key part of learning. My friends and I all held at least one ridiculous view in college, but before social shaming campaigns this was not really an issue. People of my generation usually have memories of at least one loud debate with that one steadfastly pro-life classmate or the kids with weird experimental politics. But none of it was taken all that seriously beyond spur of the moment conversations. And afterwards everyone would still play video games with each other. (I’m talking about dorm room debates here, just to be clear.) I don’t think there is a good single vector solution. The idea of solving it with an app definitely seems flawed.

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techblueberry 10mo ago
I'm really not trying to be an asshole, but is this true? When I was a kid it feels like the culture was super-judgemental, and historically we had all sorts of norms about what one said in polite company. This idea that everyone should feel comfortable saying and being whatever they want to be is relatively new, maybe to the internet age? I don't know when you went to school; maybe there was this unique time in the late 90's where transgression was cool (I do vaguely remember this era you talk about of people your generation having memories of "at least one loud debate with that one steadfastly pro-life classmate or the kids with weird experimental politics. But none of it was taken all that seriously beyond spur of the moment conversations. And afterwards everyone would still play video games with each other." But it seems like such a short moment in time, and maybe one that required not having an internet where everyone just says all this shit all the time.
- iamnothere 10mo ago
  I don’t know, in terms of youth culture I think it was more than just the 90s. I’ve heard similar stories about college life in the 70s and 80s. I think the Civil Rights/Vietnam era was a little more complicated because of unevenly distributed political polarization, at least from what I’ve read.

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techblueberry 10mo ago

I'm really not trying to be an asshole, but is this true? When I was a kid it feels like the culture was super-judgemental, and historically we had all sorts of norms about what one said in polite company. This idea that everyone should feel comfortable saying and being whatever they want to be is relatively new, maybe to the internet age? I don't know when you went to school; maybe there was this unique time in the late 90's where transgression was cool (I do vaguely remember this era you talk about of people your generation having memories of "at least one loud debate with that one steadfastly pro-life classmate or the kids with weird experimental politics. But none of it was taken all that seriously beyond spur of the moment conversations. And afterwards everyone would still play video games with each other." But it seems like such a short moment in time, and maybe one that required not having an internet where everyone just says all this shit all the time.

iamnothere 10mo ago
I don’t know, in terms of youth culture I think it was more than just the 90s. I’ve heard similar stories about college life in the 70s and 80s. I think the Civil Rights/Vietnam era was a little more complicated because of unevenly distributed political polarization, at least from what I’ve read.