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b_b  ·  3540 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In College and Hiding From Scary Ideas

    Coddling students like this, even through college, does a disservice to them and the communities that they will form.

Parents will do that. It comes naturally to them.

The far more interesting thing here is the concept of "self-infantilization." You can't be free until you assert your own freedom. The world might not be a "safe space" in the sense that is used in the article, but it's safer than it's been at any time in history, in the objective sense. We seem to gloss that fact over all too often. Ideas move the world; none is so dangerous that it should be suppressed.