Emory Students react to Trump Graffiti with Fear and Frustration

[Brian Howell]

Back in December I posted about Oberlin students claiming that inauthentic ethnic food constituted cultural micro-agressions: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/ipse-dixit/oberlin/ipse-dixit/2Sah_m8zNHo/5p7oGB-WBAAJ

Now, Emery University students are protesting that chalked "Trump" on college walls is causing them to feel fear and frustration. Micro-aggressions and PC culture are running rampant.

http://emorywheel.com/emory-students-express-discontent-with-administrative-response-to-trump-chalkings/

I can't help but attribute much of this behavior to the extreme helicopter parenting that many of these kids experienced. They're no longer allowed to just play in the street, like my friends and I did. They're raised to be paranoid of strangers—I said "hi" to one little boy at a playground; I was there playing with my two-year old nephew. The boy reacted in fear, said "stranger danger!" quite loudly, and ran to his mother, who looked at me fiercely. (Of course single men are a much greater threat to children than women; we're all perverts.) Without bumps and bruises, both physical and mental, kids are growing up unable to face the realities of every day life.

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/07/helicopter_parenting_is_increasingly_correlated_with_college_age_depression.html

Kate met with a 22 year-old woman for an "informational interview" about her career: the young woman had been introduced to Kate family friend who was Kate's colleague. The young woman's father arranged the meeting, and added that the young woman's mother would be joining her daughter at the interview—which she did for the entire half hour. Kate found the whole experience discomfiting and weird.

Kate knows a businessman who, upon arriving at work, goes around and greets every one of his employees. He's learned that if he doesn't do this, his employees feel that he doesn't like them, or that they aren't meeting his standards.

And then there's the (Millennial) CEO who was rebuked by an employee for not apologizing after an oversight that granted employees flexible time off for the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, but not the Muslim counterpart of Eid al-Adha.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/fashion/millennials-mic-workplace.html?_r=0

I'm waiting for the first Millennial president and the First Extended Family, including the First Mommy. (Nancy Reagan doesn't count: she was Ronnie's wife, after all.)

[Craig Good]

I believe it was in a recent On the Media that a professor was talking about how rapidly the situation has deteriorated. He said that if you graduated before 2013 you have no idea what’s happening on campuses now. Teachers are avoiding entire subjects for fear of repercussions, and this is a situation that leftist school administrators brought on themselves with PC speech codes and the like. He traced it also to the kidnapping scares that created helicopter parents. Kids aren’t out on their own now until adulthood. Students now wield review boards as cudgels, and it’s working.

It’s scary.

> On Mar 23, 2016, at 09:54 AM, Brian Howell <bdho...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I can't help but attribute much of this behavior to the extreme helicopter parenting that many of these kids experienced.

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[jack saunders]

Who is served by "no upset students" rules?  School administrators, who have to work less.

The more upset students are, the more education they get.

 

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