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Political Correctness Breeds an Offended Nation The American Post-Secondary Educational institutions have created an environment that disables their student body from receiving a complete and well-rounded education due to their persistent effort to be politically correct. Students and administrators of these institutions have jumped on board with legislators and policy makers in avoiding the risk of offending minorities of any fashion. This problem continues to reach extremes by causing dis-invitations of public speakers, trigger warnings in syllabi and codes that restrict different forms of speech on college and university campuses across the nation. This is absurd and is robbing these students from diverse intellectual learning and freedom …show more content…

Since the 1960’s The United States as strived to breed a population that doesn’t offend the other citizens of this country as well as those of the world. In today’s world this has come to be a fundamental custom practiced by the institutions that are educating the nation’s population. The institutions are simply setting a precedence for an offended population. Some college professors have gone to the extent of putting “Trigger Warnings” in syllabi for their courses. (Political 4) They claim that it is necessary to prepare their students for any type of material that may be covered in the course that could be interpreted as offensive or spark some sort of emotional response from past encounters in their student’s lives. Really? It’s a college course and education for that matter these students are not infants they are adults and should be able to understand that this is history and education. How do the educators of America expect to teach any type of history without bringing up situations from the past that may or may not be offensive to a student because of their sexual, ethnic, or racial background? It cannot be done. This in lies the problem …show more content…

(Political 3) Well here is the message being sent to the students of these institutions. If I do not want to hear it, I do not have to. If I do not agree with your views and politics, you will simply be uninvited from speaking. Wrong! There is no control in the real world and being taught that you can simply state that you are offended will excuse you from what is being said is absurd. The amount of dis-invitations in the year 2000 was around 7.5 per year and from the year 2012 on it has jumped to 25 per year. (Political 3) Although this country is a free country there are still certain aspects of things that one simply cannot change. Every citizen in the United States as the right to speak what is on their minds within the limits of the

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The Language Police, by Diane Ravitch, meticulously documents the authors search for solving the political mystery behind the unorthodox reasoning behind K-12 education. She always believed that textbooks were designed to help students gain beneficial information, and that tests were assessed on the knowledge from what they had learned throughout the year. Over many years, testing was reflected on a controversial language of screening and affairs that negatively were associated with all personable groups. What once had been commended had now developed far beyond the method of censorship. It was now, restricted as an approach for masking the reality of literal knowledge from students.

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‘College students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like.’ Is stated in the article The Coddling of the American Mind. The authors Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt use logos, ethos, and pathos to discuss the issues and solutions for trigger warnings and macroaggressions on university campuses. The authors start the article off by giving examples and other pieces of literature written about trigger warnings on college campuses, these are examples of Logos. Logos is used throughout the document for example in the third paragraph the author observed the recent campus actions at Brandeis University.

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Charles R. Lawrence III is a professor at Georgetown University that publicized an article inside “The Chronicle of Higher Education” and later on in the “Duke Law Journal” which was headlined “On Racist Speech”. Ever since Charles Lawrence was young he was quite the anarchist on the matter of the first amendment protecting racial slurs. He encourages University’s to stand up and reprimand such absurd speech with a reinforced approach without completely throwing out the first amendments rights. Charles Lawrence uses Brown v. the board of education as an example, the discrimination is causing psychological effects that are turning an educational environment into an environment of destruction. As he then goes on to explain that if racial speech

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And, you should be as well” (Stetzer, 2017, para.9). Ed Stetzer ignites a sense of responsibility to feel disgusted and as if we should do something about it. He uses strong words such as “deeply offended” to make the point clear to the reader

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The thesis of Ashley Herzog’s College Classes for Conservatives to Avoid is that many university of a myriad of worthless classes for their students to take and that they should be avoided if possible. Her thesis is covered in both the first and second paragraphs. Along with the primary purpose of in informing people, particularly conservative college students, about pointless class Herzog has a secondary purpose entertainment. She uses satire to poke fun at the classes that she considers to be worthless. Herzog assumes her audience holds the same conservative view as the only time she actually makes a direct reference to her beliefs is in the title.

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Trigger Warnings on College Campuses Rhetorical Analysis Writers Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, in their article “The Coddling of the American Mind”, detail the effects that safe spaces and trigger warnings are having on college campuses. They claim that “in the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like” and add they will explain “why that’s disastrous for education and mental health”. Through the use of the word “increasingly”, the writers recognize that not all students are following the damaging trend, but instead it is becoming progressively prevalent and as a result needs to be addressed. Throughout the article, explanations are given for the stance against shielding students from opinions they find oppressive, as well as ways to combat and fix the problem. Through this, the writers hope to promote a college experience where students can feel safe and

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Campuses are a place where students all deserve to feel safe. Trigger warnings are a way to do this. Greg Lukianoff feels that trigger warnings coddle students minds and prevent them from growing and learning. In the interview for The Atlantic Lukianoff talks about how lack of a trigger warning made a student feel normal again for the first time in years, however this is often not the case for people with disorders like post-traumatic stress disorder. This is an example of how some people feel their freedom of speech is being compromised Triggered reactions are not only highly unpleasant, but can overtake one’s consciousness by causing a flashback, or a number of other things.

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One example being the phrases that will trigger certain ethnicities. The article states, ". . .by some campus guidelines, it is a microaggression to ask an Asian American or Latino American 'Where were you born?'"(TriggerWarnings). Other extreme examples are used to bring attention to the issue as well. Another reason this writing might bring worry to college professors and others, are the expressions like, "It prepares them[students] poorly for professional life"(Basictenets).

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Ellie Reynolds advances a rhetorically effective argument on why government should not have regulatory control over offensive Native American mascots in schools across the country. She believes this control is more of a detriment to society than a service. Her article published on the DenverPost.com, “Native Americans Have Become a Political Pawn,” offers a compelling point of view on this controversial issue because Reynolds is a member of the Oglala Sioux tribe herself (Reynolds 659). Along with her strong view against government involvement on this issue, which she considers censorship by political correctness, Reynolds uses her personal experience, historical context, and the negative effects of political correctness to convey her effective

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Vindictive protectiveness is stopping students from learning anything in the four years or more that they spend in college. If they aren’t allowed to speak their mind there is no room for growth. The only thing they are learning is that speech should be under strict control by authorities. Thus teaching them that there really is no freedom of speech under the first

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Though there are some exceptions, the young generation at large today has been brainwashed by politically correct culture. That culture shuns complex thought, and makes any dissent from the PC mainstream punishable by shunning, yelling, and attempts to silence. It runs rampant on college campuses, and Hofstra is no exception. Trigger warnings are unfortunately a major aspect of this culture, and there is little remedy other than to save the minds of those we can still sway. As best summarized by the American Association of University Professors, “The presumption that students need to be protected rather than challenged in a classroom is at once infantilizing and anti-intellectual”

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In her article, she refers to college as a place to broaden knowledge, “It is, hopefully, a space where the student is challenged and sometimes frustrated and sometimes deeply upset, a place where the student's world expands and pushes them to reach the outer edges – not a place that contracts to meet the student exactly where they are” (Filipovic). From this previous statement, we can conclude that the unexpected in college challenges a student to push their knowledge; however, we should not adapt the learning process to meet students’ needs. A trigger warning serves as protection against a wide range of controversial categories. It is true multiple things could trigger an emotional response, even things as little as skulls, blood, or pregnancy. The discretion on whether a topic can send a student into emotional turmoil is unpredictable.

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The idea of free speech on college campuses and the complications of it stem from those on campuses expressing views that don’t align with popular views. Implications for students who use the idea of free speech as a method for hateful actions and comments should be reprimanded, but the question remains as to whether schools should enforce tougher limitations. The freedom of speech on college campus expands to the freedoms of religion, assembly, press, and protest as well. Freedom of expression allows students to show their own political, social, and cultural views. Removing freedoms of speech and expression have consequences deeper than surface issues.

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