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Professor Jonathan Haidt's co-authored piece on political correctness, use of trigger warnings and avoidance of microagressions is cited
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Excerpt from Bloomberg View -- "Students demanding that campus life be bowdlerized to preserve their peace of mind seem to believe that the best way to deal with trauma is to avoid any mention of it. But [Greg] Lukianoff and [Jonathan] Haidt argue that this is exactly backward; chronic avoidance breeds terror. The current climate on campus is a recipe for producing fearful adults who are going to have difficulty coping in an adult world. It's as if we were trying to prepare the next generation of American citizens by keeping them in kindergarten until the age of 23."
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