Episode 32: Attack of the PC College Kids!
Citations Needed
Citations Needed
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
We've heard this scare story a million times: A theater group at Wesleyan won't perform The Vagina Monologues because it's offensive to trans women! Oberlin is banning classes featuring white authorsI Rich, sheltered college students, increasingly indoctrinated by radical Marxist professors, are asking for safe spaces!
But how much merit is there to the popular trope that college kids are hypersensitive and coddled? Is there really a free speech crisis America's campuses? What are the origins of this evergreen complaint? Who does the constant harping on the threat of "political correctness" and anti-free speech undergrads actually hurt? And more importantly, whom does it benefit?
Today's guest is David Palumbo-Liu, professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University.
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| 0:42.3 | Moving on. |
| 0:43.3 | So we are excited about this episode for, I think the primary reason of it is there's |
| 0:49.2 | always evergreen controversies that never go away. |
| 0:51.9 | There's like some that flare up and go down, but there's some that always have like a steady |
| 0:55.6 | beat. |
| 0:56.6 | There's like the white noise as it were. |
| 0:59.4 | And one of them ones that has not gone away in my lifetime has been this notion of political |
| 1:05.1 | correctness taking over campuses. |
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