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Students at Lena Dunham’s college offended by lack of fried chicken
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<blockquote data-quote="PeaceByJesus" data-source="post: 69014472" data-attributes="member: 325380"><p><em> Students at an ultra-liberal Ohio college are in an uproar over the fried chicken, sushi and Vietnamese sandwiches served in the school cafeterias, complaining the dishes are “insensitive” and “culturally inappropriate.” </em> </p><p></p><p>This peevish attitude has become epidemic in too much of so-called "higher" education, and the Atlantic magazine had a good, though lengthy, article on it, "<span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>The Coddling of the American Mind,"</strong> </span>containing the following quotes:</p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">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. Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for <em>The New Yorker</em> about law students asking her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law—or, in one case, even use the word <em>violate</em> (as in “that violates the law”) lest it cause students distress..</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. “I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me,”..</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Two terms have risen quickly from obscurity into common campus parlance. <em>Microaggressions</em> are small actions or word choices that seem on their face to have no malicious intent but that are thought of as a kind of violence nonetheless. For example, by some campus guidelines, it is a microaggression to ask an Asian American or Latino American “Where were you born?,” because this implies that he or she is not a real American. <em>Trigger warnings</em> are alerts that professors are expected to issue if something in a course might cause a strong emotional response.... - </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/" target="_blank">http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/</a></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PeaceByJesus, post: 69014472, member: 325380"] [I] Students at an ultra-liberal Ohio college are in an uproar over the fried chicken, sushi and Vietnamese sandwiches served in the school cafeterias, complaining the dishes are “insensitive” and “culturally inappropriate.” [/I] This peevish attitude has become epidemic in too much of so-called "higher" education, and the Atlantic magazine had a good, though lengthy, article on it, "[SIZE=3][B]The Coddling of the American Mind,"[/B] [/SIZE]containing the following quotes: [SIZE=3] 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. Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for [I]The New Yorker[/I] about law students asking her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law—or, in one case, even use the word [I]violate[/I] (as in “that violates the law”) lest it cause students distress.. In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. “I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me,”.. Two terms have risen quickly from obscurity into common campus parlance. [I]Microaggressions[/I] are small actions or word choices that seem on their face to have no malicious intent but that are thought of as a kind of violence nonetheless. For example, by some campus guidelines, it is a microaggression to ask an Asian American or Latino American “Where were you born?,” because this implies that he or she is not a real American. [I]Trigger warnings[/I] are alerts that professors are expected to issue if something in a course might cause a strong emotional response.... - [/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][URL]http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/[/URL][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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