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Lukianoff and Haidt in The Atlantic: ‘Why It’s a Bad Idea to Tell Â鶹´«Ã½IOS Words Are Violence’
, Â鶹´«Ã½IOS President and CEO Greg Lukianoff and best-selling author, New York University professor, and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt forcefully respond to the increasingly popular argument that speech can sometimes be a form of violence.
Co-authors of the award-winning “,†Lukianoff and Haidt join forces again in a rejoinder to prominent psychologist and emotion researcher Lisa Feldman Barrett’s recent New York Times essay “â€
Lukianoff and Haidt argue that equating stress-causing speech with “violence,†as Feldman Barrett does, isn’t simply an overstatement. Instead, it’s students’ overblown perception of their own fragility — not exposure to the occasional offensive viewpoint — that’s causing widespread mental health problems among today’s college students.
Their prescription is sure to spark discussion in our nation’s college classrooms — and beyond.
“Free speech, properly understood, is not violence. It is a cure for violence.â€
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