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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s sad because it seems like the effect of it has been to promote blame and division.  Done properly, it’s about promoting understanding and growth.  The professor asking for students to let him know if he was accidentally offending them was showing his willingness to grow and learn — the student who filed a complaint was unreasonable.  I do wonder, though. if they overstate the problem by focusing on the most extreme crazies.  Like if you polled that professors class, would 99 students say “gee, I really appreciated him saying that…”?  
It’s hard to say.  Part of the problem here is that over the past 10 years, the country has become much more divided and tribalist (in part due to people like Trump and Russian troll farms who foment these divisions very explicitly).  So it’s hard to conclude that this is the result of the UM DEI program, unless we know whether polls of students nationwide would show the same increased sense of embattlement. [/quote]

Shouldn't our young adults start learning how [b]not[/b] to be offended by every minute, perceived slight?[/quote]

You would think, but instead they have cultivated a culture of fear where people are afraid to open their mouths.[/quote]

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