Majority of Students Surveyed Say Using Offensive Words an Act of Violence
As the last few days have demonstrated, this issue is completely out of control.
The College Fix reports.
Using offensive words an ‘act of violence,’ majority of students surveyed say
Using offensive words is an “act of violence,” according to a majority of students recently surveyed in a nationwide poll.
These numbers indicate a growing trend among college students to equate using certain words to violence. The nationwide online survey asked 1,000 college students aged 18 to 24 if “choosing to use or not use certain words can constitute an act of violence.”
A majority of respondents, 53 percent, agreed some words equal violence, with 21 percent “strongly” agreeing and 32 percent “somewhat” agreeing. Only 21 percent somewhat disagreed with the statement, 13 percent strongly disagreed, and the rest said they didn’t know.
“To see such high support for that concept is troubling and indicates more needs to be done to prepare students entering institutions of higher education,” said Emily Jashinsky, spokeswoman for Young America’s Foundation, which commissioned the survey. It was conducted in September and released late last month.
There are many real-world examples that corroborate these results, showing that the term violence or the notion of violence is used flippantly on colleges these days.
Last month, Southern California students protested a mad scientist-themed party at Harvey Mudd College, claiming it represented “violence against disabled people.” And in April, a speech by conservative feminist Christina Hoff Sommers at Oberlin College was equated to violence that demanded an alternative “safe space.”
When transgender actress and activist Laverne Cox gave a speech at George Washington University in April of this year, she told the crowd “I’ve come to understand after all these years of experience that calling a transgender woman a man is an act of violence.” The audience went wild with applause.
YAF’s Jashinsky, an undergrad at GWU during Cox’s speech, told The Fix that “LGBT students said my refusal to use [gender-preferred] pronouns was ‘an act of violence,’” an example of how not using certain words is also considered violent by some campus activists.
Using offensive words an ‘act of violence,’ majority of students surveyed say (The College Fix)
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So words which a thin-skinned, coddled moron thinks are offensive constitute an act of violence. Gee what drug are these twits on. Time to get a grip and stop being so overly sensitive about things which should have little or no impact on them. Grow up and stop acting like per-schoolers. They are in college and are showing how ill-prepared they are for the real world. Life sucks! Get over it. Maturity means that one is able to deal with the slings and arrows of life.
Dear Millenials:
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but names will never harm you.
Signed,
Every generation before yours…
What is the motivation to such a claim? Students can be verbally brutal to each other when they are among friends, so I doubt if true sensitivity is behind this trend. By declaring words to be violence, they are implicitly asserting the right to respond with actual physical violence.