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Its an academia problem. We get stories from your side of the pond as well. The last couple years, at least, have had a few social justice flavored dustups at Oxford (the exclusion of white students from a public campus meeting by its student "diversity" advocate comes to mind off hand.) Essentially, professors in large amounts live in tenure enforced leftist echochambers and use their courses as a bully pulpit to preach "resistance" and social justice dogma until the students get embroiled into it and come out of their first year or so with a motivation to either be (or LARP as) communists/issue of the week "activists"/etc. I suppose the professors long for their glory days of protesting Nixon in the same way I pine for days of neon past. The difference is I don't go around demanding that everything that isn't neon be torn down in the process.CosmicScientist wrote: Sooo this vid and thinking back on some national/personal experiences... what's up with Murica? Is this what happens when you poison your sea with tea?
To be on topic though, I'm yet to hear toxic masculinity outside Murican internet or Murican jokes. I'm still crossing my fingers people don't say it unironically as a problem to be solved since I don't venture towards gender politics on the web.
The above is combined with a lot of rhetoric we're hearing out of the campuses now conflating speech with violence. The laws in most states protect an act of violence against another done in self defense or in defense of another subject to imminent violence, but legally those states don't protect you from mean or contrary words in the same way. The campuses have turned this into a sort of topsy-turvey. If you say something I don't like or that I believe is politically harmful to somebody or some group, then I can attack you to protect myself from your "violent" speech. That has, in turn, created the artifact known widely as "hate speech." Here in the states, we have no definition for this because its not really a thing. The law is generally silent on it because we have the in-built protections against improper policing of speech. Professors and students, however, are not shy about defining things however best suits the need. I believe your country has actually started defining and policing that sort of thing (to my great amusement at pissing off their official twitter accounts.)
Another, similar issue is the modern concept of "intersectionality." That is, we must weigh each type of oppression experienced by each group who may or may not be oppressed and stack them into a sort of web or totem pole of most to least oppressed and then view the world through that criterion to some end. The end isn't always clear but it usually comes down to "blame whitey" in the States.
tl:dr College is a huge mistake. Send your kid to a trade school.
