Students are too comfortable with violence

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 Students are too comfortable with violence
Daniel Payne - Assistant Editor •November 2, 2018


Too many students see it as a first resort

A recent survey of college students revealed the usual depressing trends: Professors are using class time to preach their personal political beliefs; students are reluctant to speak up with their own for fear of backlash. But most concerning, and dismaying, was the revelation that over a third of respondents claimed that “if someone is using hate speech or making racially charged comments, physical violence can be justified to prevent this person from espousing their hateful views.”

There is, of course, no meaningful definition of “hate speech;” it is a meaningless word and an empty concept, used mostly by people whose problem is not with “hate” but with “speech.” Free speech is both broad and at every instance comprehensive: You simply cannot have freedom of speech if you outlaw some of it because it hurts your feelings. It would be a contradiction in terms. Hate speech is free speech, no matter what the local chapter of the Students for Socialism club claims.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/students-are-too-comfortable-with-violence/

[skeeter]

My guess is not too many of these students have experienced the joy of a good right cross to the jaw. Tends to make one a bit more reticent when considering doing violence to someone else.

[sneakypete]

Realistic video games. When you kill dozens of people every day from around age 8 to college graduation,killing people doesn't seem like a big deal.

[sneakypete]

My guess is not too many of these students have experienced the joy of a good right cross to the jaw. Tends to make one a bit more reticent when considering doing violence to someone else.

@skeeter

There is nothing new about this. I have had teen girls and women tell me they were going to kick my ass in bars 40 years ago,and actually think they could do it and get away with it. It would freak them out when I would pose with my chin out and tell them to take their best shot and hope it works,because I would be breaking their faces immediately afterwards if it didn't.

I remember hearing the teen daughters of relatives telling each other what "bad bitches" they were,and how they would kick anyone's asses who got in their way. AFAIK,not a single one of them had ever thrown or received a punch at or from an adult male,yet they were confident they could do it because Oprah and the other bad bitches on teebee had told them they could.

[skeeter]

@skeeter

There is nothing new about this. I have had teen girls and women tell me they were going to kick my ass in bars 40 years ago,and actually think they could do it and get away with it. It would freak them out when I would pose with my chin out and tell them to take their best shot and hope it works,because I would be breaking their faces immediately afterwards if it didn't.

I remember hearing the teen daughters of relatives telling each other what "bad bitches" they were,and how they would kick anyone's asses who got in their way. AFAIK,not a single one of them had ever thrown or received a punch at or from an adult male,yet they were confident they could do it because Oprah and the other bad bitches on teebee had told them they could.

I shake my head every time I see some girl take a poke at some guy and then seem shocked when the guy reflexively knocks them on their keester. YouTube is loaded with such videos.

The world has changed.