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In reply to the discussion: How is it NOT a display of white privilege to mock the idea of "Safe Spaces"? [View all]Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)Basically, what you really are objecting to is evolution. Every older generation thinks the generations that come after them are being coddled.
What, after all, has been the history of human evolution but a decreasing tolerance for discomfort, cruelty, harshness and stupidity?
I'm certain, compared to previous generations, you yourself appear tremendously coddled, sensitive and overly politically correct. That's what comprises human progress and evolution; an increased level of sensitivity in and civilization of human culture.
These students you may consider overly-sensitive and assanine are really previous generations teachers. They are the drivers of human evolution.
So consider the possibility that you or I can't see what's intolerable about current human culture because we've had no choice but to build up a tolerance for its cruelty and ignorance compared to a young person who is seeing it with unclouded vision for the first time.