every time I hear a discussion that sounds like “society is going to the dogs” I just think that people have been saying “kids these days” for a couple of thousand years.
Right? Like who raised these fragile snowflakes anyways?
I think we can safely say there’s a difference between “liberals” and “SJWs.” SJWs may be a sect of liberals but it’s not as if every liberal is an SJW. Sounds more like we’re talking about SJWs, not liberals.
And SJWs span generations. Hell, we even have one in the senate who’s a baby boomer. So it’s not just a “young folks these days” kind of thing.
wow.
People act like being a SJW in itself is even a bad thing. Being vocal about inequality does not necessarily mean you whine about your detractors. This is a lot less about my generation being too liberal (or even soft) and more about a society that doesn’t encourage discourse. When Fox News (or the viewer) paints the left as being without virtue and leaches, and Liberal Media (or the viewer) paints the right wing as bigots obviously both sides are less likely to entertain the thoughts of the other. The issue is that people simply are all acting on the assumption that their views are correct and I’m not sure if that’s a new occurrence.
I could of course be way off (and probably am at least a good bit)
Perhaps because people tend to get their news from their own echo chambers. Access to varied news media outlets has increased. This is generally a good thing for someone who like the idea of getting the story from multiple sources, but it also allows the ideologically narrow-minded (whether left or right leaning) to get news which reinforces his/her own viewpoint and denigrates others.
I have a friend of a particular political persuasion who, while very passionate about their cause, shuts down and is visibly upset when you wish to present opposing opinions. It truly affects them on a very emotional level. I consider this a bit of a character flaw in that if you believe in something then you should have the fortitude to have your beliefs challenged. The idea that one can use things they deem uncomfortable as “triggers” concerns me. I am very glad that I was spared the need to go to war and experience its horrors. I can’t imagine that any sane person could come away from such an experience without it affecting them deeply. We don’t insulate our soldiers from society and they must deal with their triggers with help from Drs., counselors family and friends. Students who use the excuse of triggers to explain their emotional turmoil want society to accommodate them. The professor in the article didn’t have a problem having his methods or teachings challenged, he could defend his views and make his arguments. However, when one has an emotional event or is “offended”, it is impossible to defend yourself. You have no control of the things that might be a trigger or offend a class of 10, 20 or 30 students. I am sure that people of both political parties are to blame, however, it has been my observation that most of the political correctness comes from a particular political mindset.
When the late Prof. Edward Said taught at Columbia in the 1980s, ugly, racist or loud voices didn’t carry the day in his lectures nor in his public appearances. Prof. Said was a prominent critic of Israeli policies, but he was very well respected by the Jewish and pro-Israel students in his classes.
However, Said was a proponent of a two state solution. Probably the pro-Israel students who respected him enough to take his classes also were. The racist extremists were probably elsewhere outside screaming at each other.
And there there are situations like this:
Did he really need to resign?
misguided comment.
should not be necessary to resign.
When it seems like ANYTHING can cost you your career, it is not surprising why some people refuse to share their views and discuss things when there is even the small chance that it is controversial. Or even just 2 people that disagree.
I don’t think Tim Hunt is a good example of someone being persecuted ideologically for work in scholarship or pedagogy. His gratuitous comments were outrageously unprofessional and personally insulting to his colleagues and students. He’s 72 and maybe the filters are going. I find it hard to believe that an academic in possession of all his faculties would say what he did at a conference. If we embarrassed our employers the way he embarrassed his, we’d probably be encouraged to resign as well.
I agree that story is ALWAYS told from one side and ONE SIDE only - liberal side. Whole media is bought out or straight forward simply afraid. I do not care. call me any names, but I refuse to listen to all that garbage, There are very few out there who simply dare to speak out. I do not understand how they are not afraid, what drives them away from the rest of the chorus. I admire them for their courage. The rest is pretty much politically correct garbage and nothing else, in most cases straight lies, total opposite of what is going on. I am very well aware of how to handle it, but many others just taking this garbage in and believe and then they go back and say how is that we were promised A, B, C and instead we got D, E, F. Nobody promised anything, they were plain lies and most of these lies are produced for wider control or huge amount of money. Been there, know where it will all lead…