not allowing comics who make offensive jokes to perform on campus has absolutely nothing to do with mental health
College administrations could have easily prevented this had they dealt better with actual issues of harassment and assault. That's my impression, at least. Also, according to this hypothetical, the people suing college campuses are not millennials, even if their spawn are...
Another thing that I wanted to add is that, I have a hunch that the micro-aggression, touchy feely, everything is offensive, etc. culture on college campuses comes straight from the Generation X scholars, educators, and administrators who now teach millennials. (Ph, wakephan09, BigTree, etc. may have a different perspective on this, though.)
Come to think about it, pretty much everyone complaining about millennials has raised, taught, mentored, or administered(?) millennials.
+1I actually agree with millhouse.
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I think the internet has created little insular bubbles for millennials to protect themselves from scary thoughts and differing opinions, and they try to replicate that bubble offline by banning anything that could make them uncomfortable and challenge their preconceptions.
Nobody conflates not liking certain comics with mental health except the authors.
Don't conflate highschool bullying on FB to political correctness. There is a hashtag, Pinterest board, tumblr page, and legitimate news website for every political persuasion and political correctness niche. The modern internet has fetishized politics and porn to the same degree.Lol.
1. The internet, social media in particular, is where most bullying happens these days. The younger half of the millennials have had to deal with some pretty fucked up shit on the internet.
2. The internet is the only place rich white millennials (a.k.a the people complained about on this thread) might encounter scary thoughts and differing opinions. They certainly don't encounter them at home or at schools where the majority of kids look like they do.
3. This statement is pretty rich coming from someone who spends a solid amount of internet time posting on a message board consisting almost exclusively of alumni of an elite private liberal arts school
Don't conflate highschool bullying on FB to political correctness. There is a hashtag, Pinterest board, tumblr page, and legitimate news website for every political persuasion and political correctness niche. The modern internet has fetishized politics and porn to the same degree.
Millennials consume news and information in strikingly different ways than previous generations, and their paths to discovery are more nuanced and varied than some may have imagined, according to the new study by the Media Insight Project, a collaboration of the American Press Institute and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Once they encounter news, moreover, nearly 9 in 10 report usually seeing diverse opinions, and three-quarters of those report investigating opinions different than their own.
I missed most of this discussion somehow (and it's one of my favorite ones!) so I'm gonna just stream of consciousness it for a minute.
America infantilizes Millennials in more than just the education and mental health sectors. It's in consumerism, branding, economics, politics.
I'm all for calling a spade a spade, millennials are Drake-level soft when it comes to a lot of things. Some of it came from good faith efforts from Xers/the people who raised millennials, who just wanted a better life for their kids. Most of it is overreaction to everything now that media is at our fingertips. Still other parts of it are just lazy characterizations.
I remember watching the debate when a candidate said "See, this is what's wrong with America. Political correctness." And it got enormous applause. I think that's true, but it's too narrow a truth. We don't engage in reality on issues. It might as well just be a bunch of rjkarls and jhmds up there spitting platitudes instead of being real. Trump hits a nerve with America because he's real as fuck. He's not polished, he's not on a leash, he's not being handled. He's an idiot, but he's not afraid to be an idiot just because he might offend someone.
I wish there were moderate Democrats that would be as real as Bernie or Warren, but they're too afraid of either offending the liberals that are too word sensitive or they're afraid of pissing off the people that bought and paid for them to be there.
What hasn't Hillary been? She has been a bunch of things. So, who is she?