According to Caitlin Flanagan’s article college student are too politically correct, coddled, and need to be amused while unoffended. Flanagan clearly admits to liking the college students as she “found them, as a type, to be cheerful, helpful, rule-following, and nerdy. They were also – in the best sense of a loaded word – inclusive. They don’t want to sponsor an event that would offend anyone”. She goes on to warn us that if you upset one of the kids, you will have the NACA knocking on your agent’s door. The kids in her article appear confident and to be taking their role as activity committee members seriously. I see students that do not want to laugh at jokes that disparage a marginalized community. That statement might sound slightly familiar since it is number six in Belfer’s list of eleven ways to get involved in the fight against racism. These students weren’t protesting or holding a rally; they simply did not want to laugh at another group’s expense. I feel the NACA was performing its job correctly by supporting these …show more content…
In fact, going one on one with someone and attempting to change them is only going to leave them on the defensive and leave those attempting to do the changing frustrated. Instead, we need to model the desired behavior in order to create the possibility for change. When we oppose privilege we can measure the effeteness of our attempts by how much resistance or discomfort we create. Therefore, I believe that we should be causing the people around each of us some discomfort just by doing what we already know. This is exactly what today’s college students are doing, they are causing the people around them discomfort and in response they are being unjustly analyzed, criticized, and