The Myth of the Campus Coddle Crisis: The Coddling of the American Mind

Re:The Myth of the Campus Coddle Crisis: The Coddling of the... by sidlls on Friday March 10, 2023 @10:48AM (#35095906)

That is an interesting take. The concert example is especially amusing to me: these people pushing through certainly are aggressive, intentionally so, because the whole point is to assert themselves into a position for better proximity to the entertainment at the expense of the people they're pushing through. If that isn't aggression, nothing is.

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Re:The Myth of the Campus Coddle Crisis: The Coddling of the... by BitwiseFool on Friday March 10, 2023 @10:58AM (#35096040)

I feel like the very concept of 'aggression' is being watered down and diluted. In an intellectual sense I can see how it could be considered aggression, but my sense of that word implies some a much more significant amount of force and intent.

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Re:The Myth of the Campus Coddle Crisis: The Coddling of the... by kneebonian on Friday March 10, 2023 @11:04AM (#35096153)

I think it's even more egregious how the word "violence" has been co-opted to mean "something I don't like."

Back in my day violence used to mean you caused people physical harm, now it means any sort of distress experienced by another person, for which they hold your responsible.

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Re:The Myth of the Campus Coddle Crisis: The Coddling of the... by sidlls on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:02PM (#35098300)

You don't think being shoved into equipment or other people, or having your feet trampled/legs kicked is aggressive? Because that's what these aggressive pushers do. It's aggressive, and not in the watered down sense.

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