Unpopular opinion: PC policing is going WAY TOO far.

[mike_c]

91. speaking as a university professor, I have to agree with you....

Of course, it's inappropriate to broad brush a large group of diverse people, but it's also apparent that the students I work with today are, by and large, the most intellectually coddled group of students I've ever known. Naturally, university administrations are interested in giving them what they want so that they have a "positive university experience" and stick around, pay tuition, and graduate rather than challenging their preconceptions and pushing them out of their comfort zones. They enforce this mainly through the student course evaluation process, denying tenure or renewed contracts to faculty who students complain about, who are often the faculty who challenge and push students the most.

Learning is often an uncomfortable process. It forces us to confront failure, or at least the risk of failure, which is often far more uncomfortable than actual failure. It doesn't let us hide behind entrenched ideas, values, or ethics without examining them in a critical light. Increasingly, university administrators are demanding that students be "protected" from being challenged and discomfited.