We’re not just bringing back DVD Extras for you, dear subscribers, The Coddling Movie filmmakers are doing it for ourselves too!
Previously, I’ve explained how difficult it’s been to exclude certain stories from the film, and today I’m so happy to be sharing a powerful anecdote that has gone unseen for far too long. It’s an anecdote that reveals so much about the twisted state of campus culture.
Our interview subject—Aryaan Misra, an international student from India attending college in Michigan—describes how administrators’ desire to foster inclusivity can poison relations among students from different backgrounds.
He says his college “fine tuned” white students' minds to treat minority students differently. Meanwhile, minority students were taught to “fine tune” their minds to seek out offense—real or imagined.
As Aryaan explains, that kind of environment foments call-out culture.
It can turn a clumsy act of kindness—in this case a single misplaced word—into a reputation-destroying offense.
If Aryaan had done what he had been taught to do, he could have summoned an outrage mob to ruin the life of a well-meaning fellow student.
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Ben Shapiro at Stanford: His Presence “Threatened the Safety of Marginalized Community Members”
Jonathan Haidt on the Rise of Intersectional Social Justice on Campus: “Everything is group vs group"
Jonathan Haidt on How Universities Foment Student Radicalism: “Their goal is to shape incoming students to be warriors for social justice”
How Stanford Teaches Students to be Fragile Victims — “Every remotely bad thing that happens to students could send you spiraling towards a mental breakdown”
"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
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
