Victimhood Culture Only Getting Worse, Professor Warns
Excerpt: Two sociology professors have published a new book on how victimhood culture -- as evidenced by safe spaces, speech restrictions, and “microaggression” hype -- is causing problems for students, faculty, and staff alike. Historically, students learned to “hold their head up high” in response to insult, the book argues. But now, students learn to interpret everything from insults to compliments through the lens of microaggression theory. Protests, conflict, and safe spaces ensue. The Rise of Victimhood Culture -- authored by Bradley Campbell, a professor at California State University, Los Angeles, and Jason Manning, who teaches at West Virginia University -- presents the harrowing details of what happened, and what’s next. In an interview with PJ Media, Manning warns that victimhood culture “will get worse before it gets better.” (This is a somewhat discouraging trend already, and that it may keep getting worse is not exactly good news. Sure, not every young person is a hyperdelicate construct poised to react instantly to the tiniest perceived microaggression.... but we do seem to have more than a few of them these days. It'd be nice to see that trend being offset and starting to decrease, with young people learning that life isn't all satin smooth and it's better to develop tolerance and some toughness than being super delicate. We all need to save our upset for when there's actual, serious aggression; of which there always seems to be some! --Del)
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