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For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)
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Another one. The Atlantic is on the roll.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/the-rise-of-victimhood-culture/404794/

Derid, you will have to take back all bad things you have said about it.


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How did these children get this way? Helicopter parents? Trophies for everyone? What the hell causes people to automatically assume that everything anyone says is in some way an affront to them?


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I think Friedersdorf's point was spot-on: In a victimhood culture it is advantageous to manufacture grievances. To put it into PvP MMO terms - imagine every time you get PKed, you'd get rewarded with PvP rank and gear. You bet some people would go out of their way to get PKed.

I personally think it has roots in anti-bullying pushes. Kids believe that directly resolving conflict is impossible, it is always "escalate to authority".

This will come crashing on their heads in a work space, where older generations will quickly crush such tendencies. Directly.


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I have hard time not to take glee in this, but it is still abuse:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arch...testers/478221/


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I don't understand the "abuse" angle. These kids want to deny other people the right to free speech by claiming it hurts their feelings, but it is abuse when it is turned around on them? I think that using someone's own beliefs against them is a really good way to get them to spend serious time in reflection on those beliefs.


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You have to realize that advocating to deny other people the right to free speech is free speech and should be protected no matter how objectionable you and I may find it.


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I do, but I'm assuming that the bluffing reference in the article is accurate.


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I applaud University of Chicago when they speak against safe spaces and trigger warnings. This sparked a lot of outrage and criticism, some of that criticism is insightful but most of it is predictably idiotic .


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Does New Republic ever publish anything that isn't idiotic? I mean Slate, Salon, and Atlantic still have their own large shares of idiocy but at least there is some decent work among the garbage.

New Republic is the Breitbart of the left.


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