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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
I think there's an extent to which this is the case, but this stuff was already happening more and more at an alarmingly fast rate, if you listen to people like Greg Lukianoff talk about it - and he was paying close attention long before anyone else; it being his job.
I think you're right that in many cases these events have been made to seem more prevalent than they were, but their momentum isn't the result of publicizing them. Kids weren't reading Popehat blogs about people spitting on attendees of conservative talks and thinking "that seems like a good idea, let's do that here too". The ball was already on its way down the hill, and the only thing that was ever going to stop it was the adults - faculty, administration, university executive - standing up and saying "no, we will not give in to your childish demands. Go to class." Some started doing just that within a few months of the whole Yale debacle.
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Yeah but again I think you do have to pay attention to the trivialization element of it. If people say "Pfft...cultural appropriation, who cares?" and enough people care, they're going to mobilize. The university/student relationship is kind of a weird one because the students are both kind of wards and clients at the same time.