After writing about Uri Berliner a few days ago I thought I’d be done for the week as regards writing about reversals in places where I expect to hear a bunch of Wokist nonsense. I guess that’s what I get for thinking.
Just this week on the campus of Harvard University the newly formed Harvard Undergraduates for Academic Freedom, which has not yet been registered as a student organization, hosted a screening of The Coddling of the American Mind. The movie is on another Stack, and is well worth the price of a one month subscription to watch. It’s cheaper than a movie ticket, your whole family can watch it repeatedly for a month and you don’t have to leave the house.
I’ve already viewed it and if you want to have something to base an argument on instead of just yelling imprecations you have to watch it. It is based on a book by “First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt.” It details the effects of the Social Justice movement on the mental health of true believers. The effects are not good and include increases in things like depression, attempted suicide and successful suicide among young people, especially girls/women. I have not yet read the book, although I did pick up a copy recently, but I have seen the movie. It leans heavily on the horrifying side and details the effects of the Social Justice movement on the lives of four young people who got caught up in the movement.
One girl actually details how it became like a religion to her and she missed time at her temple to attend social justice related activities. The same girl, who is autistic talks of how ashamed she was forced to feel because she had white skin. Another student speaks of his experiences coming to the US from Nigeria and how wrapped up he got in the whole mess. It’s crazy. I graduated from college late. I got my bachelor’s in 2010 at the age of thirty-three. It sounds like things went off the deep end just a couple of years later.
Just the fact that the book was published and the movie was made would be enough cause for at least a little bit of hope, but it gets better:
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