Op-Ed: How PC Culture is Killing Higher Education
Our friend Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit has a new column at USA Today which is worth your time.
Here’s an excerpt.
How PC culture is killing higher education
If I were to offer one piece of advice to university presidents, it would be to watch the scene from The Social Network in which Harvard President Larry Summers tells the Winklevoss twins to grow up and stop complaining about the actions of other students. “This action,” says Summers, “the two of you being here, is wrong.”
That’s precisely the response that university presidents should give to students who come, claiming fear and trembling, to see university presidents because they’re unhappy with the speech of other students. Instead, all too often, these students are indulged in a way that the Winklevoss twins were not, with consequences for the university, for higher education — and, actually for the complaining students themselves — that are likely to prove disastrous.
The latest example of this phenomenon can be found at Emory University in Atlanta.
At Emory, students of the “social justice” variety were upset when someone chalked ”Trump 2016” on sidewalks. The students announced that they felt “fear” and “pain” as a result. The students challenged the administration; one student demanded that it “decry the support for this fascist, racist candidate.” According to TheEmory Wheel, another student complained: “I’m supposed to feel comfortable and safe (here). But this man is being supported by students on our campus and our administration shows that they, by their silence, support it as well … I don’t deserve to feel afraid at my school.”
Comments
This is a predictable consequence of liberal/progressive policies. Those policies have produced immature, insecure, intolerant and vile students who are so far removed from critical thinking and uncomfortable with debating. They know nothing except what they were brainwashed to know and never bothered to research the validity any of the info they were fed. The universities are staffed with people who have no skills in dealing with this bad student behavior. Most people, who want an education, do not want to put up with whiny, out of control students just to get that education. When these institutions of “higher” learning get replaced with a better alternative, it will be lights out!