The demise of meaningful dialogue and debate is what bothers me most. I concur whole heartedly with other posters who agree that these kids (I refuse to acknowledge them as adults) are sniveling, self-entitled, narrow-minded (oppressive in reality), crybabies who I hope get what they deserve in the end…barista jobs. This is just another avenue of the dumbing down of America, all in the name of inclusiveness, but at the expense of the freedoms so many have fought for.
I was the OP for a similar thread that linked an issue of the Skidmore College newspaper and wrote about my daughter’s concerns at the liberal LAC. I had no idea that conservative students were being ostracized to the point of fear to speak out. The term SJW is new to me. I feel like I’ve been living under a rock somehow, not realizing the potential negativity of activism on college campuses. Until just recently, I thought college was the “safe place” to learn about and develop EDUCATED opinions, primarily through dialogue and debate with others. How are these kids entering college with opinions so ingrained already?
There were only two schools on my daughter’s list that I had an inkling of over-the-top activism present and we discarded both in the end (well, one she was rejected from anyways). Had we to do it all over again, her list would have looked much different.