What a great article! About 18 months ago I read Jonathan Haidt's book, The Coddling of the American Mind, and was blown away by what was happening on college campuses, e.g. Safe Spaces, Crying Closets, et al.
You nailed it with your opening "Sticks and Stones..." and then continued to point out the nonsense of such a flawed ideology.
What a great article! About 18 months ago I read Jonathan Haidt's book, The Coddling of the American Mind, and was blown away by what was happening on college campuses, e.g. Safe Spaces, Crying Closets, et al.
You nailed it with your opening "Sticks and Stones..." and then continued to point out the nonsense of such a flawed ideology.
And with reference to words being "violent" - the word water doesn't make you wet - and until it does, we need to stop propagating such nonsense.
What a great article! About 18 months ago I read Jonathan Haidt's book, The Coddling of the American Mind, and was blown away by what was happening on college campuses, e.g. Safe Spaces, Crying Closets, et al.
You nailed it with your opening "Sticks and Stones..." and then continued to point out the nonsense of such a flawed ideology.
And with reference to words being "violent" - the word water doesn't make you wet - and until it does, we need to stop propagating such nonsense.
Thanks for writing!
Thank you so much for your thoughtful and kind comment and for reading my piece!
I hope that others can see what you saw as well!