Summary Of The Coddling Of The American Mind By Jonathan Haidt

Synopsis:

In the Article “The Coddling of the American Mind” by George Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt were very specific examples of college students who were demanding protection from words and ideas they don't like, and seeking punishment to those who give even an accidental offense. When this becomes a problem for education and mental health on campus, many different problems become relevant in our generation of students then what the baby boomers and the Gen X generations had to deal with. The article was explaining how words, subjects, and ideas may affect students, along with these ideas were Microaggressions: small actions or word choices that seem on their face to have no malicious intent but that are thought of as a kind of violence

nonetheless and trigger warnings: alerts that professors are expected to issue if something in a course might cause a strong emotional response.
What Did I learn:
What I have learned from the article is that too many people are becoming too sensitive. I don’t understand why people are taking everything to heart, that students are getting teachers suspended over the most retarded things possible. I like the idea from the Buddhism religion that says “is that you can never achieve happiness by making the world conform to your desires. But you can master your desires and habits of thought.” Meaning that the world around you may not be exactly what you want it to be, but to achieve happiness we must learn to cope with what we see and hear from peers and teachers to master the desires of habits and thought. I also like the concept of the 1999 case Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education that harassment is that a single comment or thoughtless remark by a student does not equal harassment; harassment requires a pattern of objectively offensive behavior by one student that interferes with another student's access to education, this would change the complaints and we would not have so many problems with student “harassment.”
What did I learn about the writing:
What I learned about the writing in this article is how to use parentheses correctly. I noticed throughout the entire article there was quite a bit of parenthesis. The writer uses the parenthesis to reference different facts that the writer may not know as well as making direct references to people and events instead of explaining each example. For example in the seventh paragraph he has a very long parenthesis to explain Greg Lukianoff instead of actually just explaining who he is in the article itself. The authors knew what to directly reference and what facts needed to be in parenthesis.