ITA that this may be more of a liberal arts/upper-class/elite school type of thing. While I have colleagues that are almost overly aware of trigger warnings, the amount of students at our institution that have complained about such things is minuscule. I am a WOC who teaches mostly working class to middle-class…

Ditto. I have mostly working class and pretty fucking poor students, and I haven’t gotten any of that either.

OK, I’m sorry I haven’t read or seen Antigone performed, but, prompted by this article, I have now read a plot description of it, and I’m left to wonder: what it is that modern audiences are supposed to find particularly “disturbing” (Prof. Zuckerberg’s word) about the play? Three characters commit suicide, but it…

The blank stare of that student, an undergraduate who is extremely comfortable with upsetting material, haunts me in the same way that the wagging finger of the student activist haunts the imaginations of others.

When everyone is a social justice warrior, and they all get on their soapboxes as often as possible, people like me (as a professor and as a student) who seem to be “openly hostile to discussions of social justice within the classroom” are really just sick to death of every discussion inside AND outside the classroom…

I think at least some of it is elite schools vs. everywhere else. My students are mostly working and lower-middle class. I don’t have any of these problems.

My reaction each time I read it on here is “Stop trying to make Fetch happen”

Oh thank you, thank you! I hate “woke bae.”

My problems with a lot of the Oberlin-type social activist types are mostly:

I’m remembering a classmate who went on a very long “white people can’t have ethnic heritage” tirade and just wouldn’t accept that some white people do have a connection to a specific ethnic group. And a kind of chicken professor that just let her berate us.

“because she’s nearly incomprehensible to anyone who hasn’t extensively studied feminist theory.”

In the opening scene of Night of the Super-Woke Student Body

It should but doesn’t always go without saying that, if you haven’t read something, you have no right to an opinion on its appropriateness for the classroom, particularly on the internet, where there is already so much noise

This is wonderful, thank you for sharing. So much of the discussion about this is so alarmist and polarizing. Just a couple thoughts:

I feel like “HamNo and Torch Insult New Cars” could be a regular feature.

The smugness of this article is on a Buzzfeedian level. It sounds like it was written by the type of person who says any music written in the last 20 years is shit.

After reading this, I am convinced HamNo is actually a bizzarroworld version of Jeremy Clarkson. This sentence, in particular, gave me a positively Clarksonian chill:

If I wanted to deal with computers I would have been a computer technician rather than an auto enthusiast.

Feelings breakdown:

Lest we forget, “Drive” was pretentious, derivative, garbage. I have no idea why this hack gets so much praise.