I realize older generations always look askance at youngsters, but... well, I went to college where there were security guards patrolling the corridors with dogs & knife fights in the library, and I don't think it even occurred to us we might be traumatized by the experience.https://twitter.com/AliceDreger/status/1096054376039411712 …
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I might be misremembering but I don't think it even occurred to us there was anything odd about the situation. Every couple of weeks, we'd see some lad with a jacket wrapped around his arm rush by a window, with a large dog in hot pursuit. It just seemed normal.
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So the idea of being traumatized by "wrongthink" just seems utterly alien & bizarre. I don't get it. I can understand protesting it - we did that sort of thing, of course - but not being traumatized by it.
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Of course, the obvious response is that this is just my white privilege speaking. But I'm not sure it's that. I don't remember there being any talk of trauma, that sort of thing, & I mixed in precisely the sorts of circles where one would have heard that kind of talk.
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I think what we're seeing is weaponized victimhood, & it's a recent phenomenon. I can't get too worked up about it, because this stuff is cyclical. It'll go away again (a new generation of students will come along & they'll want to distinguish themselves from their predecessors).
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