The Cultural Roots of Campus Rage
"“The great majority of college students want to learn. They’re
perfectly reasonable, and they’re uncomfortable with a lot of what’s
going on,” Mr. Haidt, a psychologist and professor of ethical leadership
at New York University’s Stern School of Business, tells me during a
recent visit to his office. “But on each campus there are some true
believers who have reoriented their lives around the fight against
evil.”
These
believers are transforming the campus from a citadel of intellectual
freedom into a holy space—where white privilege has replaced original
sin, the transgressions of class and race and gender are confessed not
to priests but to “the community,” victim groups are worshiped like
gods, and the sinned-against are supplicated with “safe spaces” and
“trigger warnings.”"
[WSJ]
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