So far, the snowflake generation has simply run amok on campuses, in coffee shops and at ironic clothing stores. But the day has come --- and we knew it would come someday --- now they are infiltrating the workplace.
Armed with neo-Marxist rhetoric about micro-aggressions, white privilege, toxic masculinity, intersectionality and political correctness --- to name a few --- they've descended onto the professional environment expecting the same pageantry they enjoyed on campuses and at rallies.
A recent opinion piece by the Washington Examiner brought up some great points about the subject:
Students have been calling the shots on campuses more and more over the last half decade, successfully fighting to prevent themselves from being contradicted, triggered, or intellectually challenged. They have fought to get speakers uninvited, to revoke the charters of conservative student groups, and to fire campus columnists for thought crimes. Emboldened by their victories on campus in spreading the shadow of their smug and self-absorbed ignorance, graduates are now waging the very same wars in workplaces.
The article cites a recent report from Columbia University, titled, "When professors make racially insensitive remarks, whose job is it to confront them?" The report heralds mandatory training and sensitivity training instigated by a professor’s use of the word “Negro” during a lesson on the 1960s, in which he described the word as part of the era’s vernacular. One student was apparently so triggered she lost all ability to focus in class.
The professor’s response: “It is in fact true, a matter of historical record, that African Americans in the '50s and '60s wanted to be called ‘Negroes.’ Denying that practice would be a falsification of history.”
Brace yourself for the onslaught.
The report includes another example of a student who was triggered by an English professor’s use of a racial slur during a reading. The student said: “It’s hard to continue on, not knowing if you are welcome in a space completely or [if] people have the knowledge to welcome you to a space. It creates a roadblock in continuing down the path that you want to continue on.”
Interestingly, this is followed by a description of microaggressions: “These tense interactions, commonly known as microaggressions, occur when comments or actions are --- either intentionally or unintentionally --- discriminatory or offensive towards people of marginalized identities.”
Brace yourself for the onslaught.
