![]() Lukianoff and Haidt put it less bluntly than this but mental illness is what it amounts to. The culture of safe spaces and no-platforming is a response to a generation that has been driven towards mental illness by over-protection. The authors, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, argue that many of these students lack the emotional armoury to handle free enquiry and are genuinely being ‘triggered’. To my surprise, I now find myself somewhat sympathetic to the perpetrators. The Coddling of the American Mind has made me reconsider. ![]() Nobody could that scared of words, I reasoned, and so the emotional incontinence and occasional violence on display must be the product of a vocal minority of hikikomarxists who will have to grow out of it or find themselves unemployable. ![]() From the viral Youtube clips I had seen, I assumed it to be manufactured outrage cynically engineered by those who fear that their theories are too weak to withstand opposing viewpoints, supported by attention-seeking radicals looking for a cause. Before reading this book, I viewed the phenomena of ‘snowflake’ protests and extreme political correctness on American campuses as being essentially comic. ![]()
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