![]() ![]() Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for The New Yorker about law students asking her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law-or, in one case, even use the word violate (as in “that violates the law”) lest it cause students distress. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense. ![]() Something strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, photographs by Andrew B. Here's why that's disastrous for education - and likely to worsen mental health on campus. The Coddling of the American Mind The Atlantic | September 2015 In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don't like, and seeking punishment of those who give even accidental offense. ![]()
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