One of the reasons boomers are so floored by the unflinching ferocity with which millennials (and zoomers) cancel people is that Ms grew up, depending on which social stratum you look at, participating in ruthless zero sum games beginning with kindergarten admissions
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We scared the shit out of our teachers and they told us so, many times. An argument at 10 AM could rope in the entire third grade class by recess and create a mob that necessitated an all-hands assembly. Of course the "zero tolerance" policies remained non-negotiable.
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These policies were basically an abdication of responsibility, the equivalent of the W-era regulations that permitted waterboarding. Endless epistemic violence was permitted just as long as no administrator ended up liable for anything. They raised a generation of torturers.
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