Forbes is owned by Asians…
Think we'll see Joe Biden on both knees anytime soon? Hillary Clinton? Liz Warren? Bernie Sanders? Nancy Pelosi? ALL WHITES WHO NEED TO REPENT!
Safetyism Was Never Real
When someone accuses others of practicing "safetyism," look at where the power lies.
By John Warner June 5, 2020
Launched into the world by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff in their book, The Coddling of the American Mind, “Safetyism refers to a culture or belief system in which safety has become a sacred value, which means that people are unwilling to make trade-offs demanded by other practical and moral concerns.”
According to the authors safetyism, along with other factors such as “screen time,” were causing observable increases in anxiety and depression among young people, as well as leading to protests such as the one over Halloween costumes at Yale, which the authors see as an illiberal assault on the values of the institution.
Coddling was published in 2018.
I am trying to recognize the description of a generation which is so apparently fragile that they cannot even bare a challenging thought with the one who has been the greatest number of those facing pepper spray, tear gas, beatings, ad rubber bullets on the streets as they protest systemic injustices in the wake of the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery.
I’m seeing plenty of sacrifice and bravery, sacrifice rooted in anger, frustration, despair, and desperation. I’m not seeing any safetyism.
If safetyism is a thing, its true avatar is President Donald Trump, whose first act after inauguration was to send his press secretary out to lie about the crowds on the National Mall. The tear gassing of peaceful protestors from near the White House so Donald Trump could stage a photo-op in front of a church while holding a Bible was explicitly designed to soothe his ego, following reports of a brief stay in an underground White House bunker as protestors massed outside the building.
Donald Trump’s inability to withstand even the slightest criticism without lashing out is a hallmark of his presidency. It has largely been normalized as a matter of Trump’s style or politics, rather than pathologized as Haidt and Lukianoff do with the “iGen,” but the pattern is clear.
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens is another example of someone who decries the pernicious influence of safetyism while cocooning himself in a protective bubble. In a 2017 commencement address at Hampden-Sydney college, Stephens decries the existence of so-called “safe spaces” on campuses, ultimately exhorting students to “Get out of your own safe spaces. Define what your intellectual comfort zone is — and leave it. Enhance your tolerance for discordant voices. Narrow your criteria for what’s beyond the pale. Read the authors or watch the talking heads with whom you disagree. Treat those disagreements as a whetting stone to sharpen your own arguments. Resist the temptation to call people names.”
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https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/safetyism-was-never-real
The idiot even lies in his own post. Ah, what the hell. Most people don't read these days.
They claim they are not paying "protestors" which is probably true. He didn't say they weren't funding ANTIFA which is the charge.
Kek. People who don't know LA always say stuff like this. "I used to live in LA." "Yea, where?" "Riverside." "Oh…"
Ewwww I hate that, lol.