The movement of the use of a clean vocabulary on college campuses is at an all-time high with students becoming distressed and offended at certain words and even some students experiencing micro aggressions from others, this is an arising issue because these students are the future and many more obstacles will emerge in the real world. “Even joking about macroaggressions can be seen as an aggression, warranting punishment “(Lukianoff, Haidt). In the article, “The Coddling of the American Mind”, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, use statistics and examples to evoke concern about the rise in mental health in college students due to trigger warnings and the actions of micro aggressions.
In the light of college students, and how they are becoming more fragile in …show more content…
Students are combating the issue of no longer being able to enjoy crude humor with one another and are beginning to take a step back to take the precautions so there will not be any actions taken against them upon the college campus about the choice of words that one uses. Lukianoff and Haidt explain how entertaining the aggressions can be seen as an aggression itself and show how a student explained their thoughts, “Last fall, Omar Mahmood, a student at the University of Michigan, wrote a satirical column for a conservative student publication, The Michigan Review, poking fun at what he saw as a campus tendency to perceive microaggressions in just about anything” (Lukianoff, Haidt). Students have taken microaggressions to the extreme to showcase how they feel and how its going to affect themselves and others. Coming to the realization that microaggressions for some can violate the freedom of speech right, which is what Lukianoff is striving to protect that
In the light of college students, and how they are becoming more fragile in …show more content…
Students are combating the issue of no longer being able to enjoy crude humor with one another and are beginning to take a step back to take the precautions so there will not be any actions taken against them upon the college campus about the choice of words that one uses. Lukianoff and Haidt explain how entertaining the aggressions can be seen as an aggression itself and show how a student explained their thoughts, “Last fall, Omar Mahmood, a student at the University of Michigan, wrote a satirical column for a conservative student publication, The Michigan Review, poking fun at what he saw as a campus tendency to perceive microaggressions in just about anything” (Lukianoff, Haidt). Students have taken microaggressions to the extreme to showcase how they feel and how its going to affect themselves and others. Coming to the realization that microaggressions for some can violate the freedom of speech right, which is what Lukianoff is striving to protect that