But what was most concerning, beyond the sensitivity and the heckling, were the justifications being put forward by these undergraduates. By the Spring of 2014, The New York Times began reporting on this trend, including demands that school administrators disinvite speakers whose ideas students found offensive.
Words were increasingly being seen as dangerous.Ī series of strange reports began to emerge of undergraduates asking for threatening material to be removed from the college curriculum. In the Fall of 2013, the President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Greg Lukianoff, noticed that something odd was happening on America’s college campuses. On this week’s episode of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Jonathan Haidt about how trigger warnings, safe spaces, and microaggressions are setting up the iGeneration for failure on America’s college campuses.
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