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Re:Senior House at MIT Dies, and a Crisis Blooms at Colleges... by TangoTrotFox on Sunday September 23, 2018 @07:17AM (#18050546)
Religion is simply a selection of social values that individuals hold to be above evidence, critique, or question. We've replaced one religion with another. As the article states: "..the administration allege that those norms were exactly the problem in Senior House—that the strong culture in the dorm, far from being welcoming and supportive as the students contend, had become toxic, a negatively reinforcing environment. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle."

It's funny actually. Anywhere you see the word 'toxic' replace it with 'against wholesome family values' and we've simply traversed to another side the horse shoe. And this didn't start in the 80s. This all goes in an oddly regular 20 year cycle. The liberal 20s, conservative 40s, liberal 60s, conservative 80s, liberal 00s, and now we're headed into the 20s. And it's the exact same pattern over and over, it starts out great but then as the dominant position reaches critical mass they appproach insanity and we start a trend in the other direction again reaching it's peak after about 10 years before it too ends up headed into insanity and we reverse once again.

Well at least everybody can look forward to the 2030s!

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Re:Senior House at MIT Dies, and a Crisis Blooms at Colleges... by homonculus1 on Sunday September 23, 2018 @09:21AM (#18050955)
"toxic" is the new "problematic" is the new "offensive" is the new "sinful".
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Re:Senior House at MIT Dies, and a Crisis Blooms at Colleges... by lotsofpulp on Sunday September 23, 2018 @07:31AM (#18050587)
Except Americans gain freedoms over time such as civil rights for minorities, ability to choose abortion, gay marriage, environmental rights, etc. It’s not just bouncing back and forth, there is progress being made, unfortunately some keep trying to reverse it.
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