“Educate yourself.” We hear that admonition a lot these days—especially on college campuses.
The Codding movie’s Lucy Kross Wallace thinks the sentiment supports, not true education, but ideological conformity:
There's a lot of talk in the social justice world about, like, you need to educate yourself and challenge your beliefs that have difficult conversations. But that only seemed to go in one direction.
I didn't really see anyone educating themselves about conservative viewpoints, or challenging woke beliefs, or questioning assumptions about, I don't know, racism in America or anything like that. “Educate yourself” really means, go learn more about what this very leftist, woke ideology has to say about it, and then agree with it.
Lucy is a recent Stanford grad and she explains how, on campus, conformity is enforced by students and professors. Sometimes the conformity manifests itself directly. Other times social cues do the trick (such as visual disgust when someone mentions the College Republicans).
Lucy relates a particularly dismaying example that occurred during a class where the topic was ostensibly about a book about Henrietta Lacks. But instead of discussing the book, the class descended into an identity-focused exercise in groupthink.
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“I Wouldn't Call Wokeness a Religion. I Would Call It a Cult” — Kimi Katiti on the Worldview That Made Her Miserable
Jonathan Haidt on the Rise of Intersectional Social Justice on Campus: “Everything is group vs group"
When Kimi Left Wokeness: The Social Aspect of Starting Anew: Collaborating with White Men and other Blasphemies
"Debating is a Patriarchal Way of Engaging in Conversation" — Aryaan Misra on what his professors taught him about exploring ideas
Ben Shapiro at Stanford: His Presence “Threatened the Safety of Marginalized Community Members”
How Stanford Teaches Students to be Fragile Victims — “Every remotely bad thing that happens to students could send you spiraling towards a mental breakdown”
“Higher Ed is Lying to Students about Freedom of Speech” — Greg Lukianoff Explains Why It’s Not a Conservative Issue
“Who is Donald Trump? What is Left? What is Right?” — A once-naive international student discusses Jonathan Haidt and offers advice for college-bound teens
“She Burst into Tears Like She Had Committed a Hate Crime” — Aryaan Misra on How Colleges Foment Call-Out Culture
Jonathan Haidt on How Universities Foment Student Radicalism: “Their goal is to shape incoming students to be warriors for social justice”
Save Us from University Administrators! “The Peter Principle is on Fire in Academia" — Dr. Anthony Rodriguez Explains Why Campus Leaders Are So Frustrating
“Everything is Dangerous. Everyone’s Against Me” — Jonathan Haidt on how paranoid parenting warps reality
"We Were a Bad Influence on Each Other from a Very Early Age" — Greg Lukianoff's Free-Range Friendship with Anthony Rodriguez
“Everyone’s Against Me. Everything is Dangerous” — Jonathan Haidt on How Gen Zers Have Been Taught to Fear Life
Gen Z Life is Packed with Self-Censorship — Aryaan Misra on the double lives of 20-somethings
Stanford's Exclusive Approach to "Inclusive" Speech — Greg Lukianoff: Don't confuse "upper class white liberal ways of seeing the world with truth itself”
“Destroying What is Magical About a College Campus” — Jonathan Haidt on Microaggression Training
Bring Debate Back to Campus! Three Benefits Students Are Missing
Don’t Talk About Your Cat: The Madness of Trigger Warnings: Lucy Kross Wallace on the Hypersensitive World of Treatment Centers
