I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me (xpost from Good Reads)

[kiva]

50. I'm bookmarking this to post when people ask

why tenure is important.

I show a video called Dear America in my classes - it's about the Vietnam War, a non-scripted, non-reenacted, real view of the war. The film has a lot of gunfire and helicopter sounds and I always mention this to the class before I show it since the school is near a military base and PTSD is a real issue for some students. Last semester a female student told me afterward that she had skipped that class because wars and stuff like that made her sad.

I've asked questions about the evolution and economic impact of slavery and had students write that they really think slavery was bad.

I have had students ask for an exemption from reading an article because it contained sex or violence and that was 'against their beliefs'.

Luckily they are a small minority, but these are the students who will complain to department chairs and dean and can get adjuncts fired and tenure derailed.