We were just all talking about this last night over sushi- how young people don't want to hurt anyone's feelings regarding issues they really should be questioning. Our topic was women supporting men in women's sports. Boggles my mind. On another note, I scream "the tests are bad" to at least one person daily (even friends I have known f…
We were just all talking about this last night over sushi- how young people don't want to hurt anyone's feelings regarding issues they really should be questioning. Our topic was women supporting men in women's sports. Boggles my mind. On another note, I scream "the tests are bad" to at least one person daily (even friends I have known for years and who I thought had better heads on their shoulders) sigh.
As a teacher your point resonates with me. young people need to learn to disagree civilly — older folks and younger parents perhaps have forgotten how, to some extent given the coarsening of culture and the divisions foisted upon the populace — but the unwillingness to state a truth in order to protect someone else’s feelings is endemic now, and partly enabled us to arrive at a place where serious people accepted the covid-era inversion of responsibility and risk: “your mask protects me” and thus “I’m not comfortable if you’re not masked/vaxed.” In Boston they’ve announced masks in school this fall. I will need to ramp up my protest game because I don’t know if I can take another year of this delusion and denial of reality bowing at the altar of authorities whose power to shut things down (education, kids emotional growth, etc) MUST be clawed back. Masks are inhuman.
We were just all talking about this last night over sushi- how young people don't want to hurt anyone's feelings regarding issues they really should be questioning. Our topic was women supporting men in women's sports. Boggles my mind. On another note, I scream "the tests are bad" to at least one person daily (even friends I have known for years and who I thought had better heads on their shoulders) sigh.
As a teacher your point resonates with me. young people need to learn to disagree civilly — older folks and younger parents perhaps have forgotten how, to some extent given the coarsening of culture and the divisions foisted upon the populace — but the unwillingness to state a truth in order to protect someone else’s feelings is endemic now, and partly enabled us to arrive at a place where serious people accepted the covid-era inversion of responsibility and risk: “your mask protects me” and thus “I’m not comfortable if you’re not masked/vaxed.” In Boston they’ve announced masks in school this fall. I will need to ramp up my protest game because I don’t know if I can take another year of this delusion and denial of reality bowing at the altar of authorities whose power to shut things down (education, kids emotional growth, etc) MUST be clawed back. Masks are inhuman.
The woke lunacy: I will cancel your existence and destroy your means of livelihood because you called me fat, which hurt my feelings.