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Offline SirJohn

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Re: Pub named after Sir John A changes its name
« Reply #15 on: January 11, 2018, 04:27:42 pm »
Not so much "meh" as I am continually struck by the one dimensional thinking of these supposedly educated SJW's. Did anyone teach them Canadian history or do they choose to ignore important parts of it just so they can be outraged.

This is the most coddled generation in the history of mankind. Read some of the talks Jonathan Haidt gives on youtube. He's a social psychologist, and he talks about how young people born since 1980 grew up with ever-present adults never letting them out of sight, never letting them learn how to cope with problems or disagreements on their own, always having an adult to referee and complain to. The SJWs are small in number but their outrage is real - at anything that contradicts or offends the world view they've been given by an almost entirely progressive teaching staff. And since most university students have better things to do with their time than get involved in activism and student unions and the like they have a greatly disproportionate influence. Haidt makes the point in a number of talks that the diversity of opinion and ideology on university campuses is largely missing. There are very few conservatives among academics, especially outside areas like economics and engineering, and the few that are there are shouted down and keep quiet for their own good.
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