A personal account of how call out culture has harmed teaching

Re:A personal account of how call out culture has harmed tea... by falcolas on Monday March 23, 2015 @01:45AM (#9249638)

I hesitate to point these out to you, but Reddit has several examples of these kinds of attitudes having negative effects on folks' real lives, on both sides.

Gamergate, "tumbler in action", social justice warriors, these are the names a few of these online conflicts have taken.

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Re:A personal account of how call out culture has harmed tea... by esrauch on Monday March 23, 2015 @11:54AM (#9251530)

As absurd as all of those generally are, I don't think any of those are remotely as absurd as retaliation against a teacher for teaching from a book that calls historical colonial slaughter "genocide".

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Re:A personal account of how call out culture has harmed tea... by falcolas on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @12:30AM (#9254905)

I agree. Sadly, we as a society don't judge on absurdity, we judge on the loudest, most offended voice.

We've seen this occur prominently within the tech industry - offended folks getting their offenders fired through "triggered" public outrage which ended in an indiscriminate swatting of both parties - so I see no reason why universities would be exempt from this absurdity.

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