{"id":126184,"date":"2015-11-12T08:55:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=126184"},"modified":"2015-11-12T08:55:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:55:54","slug":"the-yale-snowflakes-who-made-these-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=126184","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Yale Snowflakes\u2019: Who Made These Monsters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/newsite\/article\/the-yale-snowflakes-who-made-these-monsters\/#.VkSn13arRhF\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan O&#8217;Neil<\/a> at Spiked blows the whistle.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is indeed interesting, and worrying, that students are so sensitive and censorious today. But I have a question for the hand-wringers, the media people, academics and liberal thinkers who are so disturbed by what they\u2019re calling the \u2018Yale snowflakes\u2019: what did you think would happen? When you watched, or even presided over, the creation over the past 40 years of a vast system of laws and speech codes to punish insulting or damaging words, and the construction of a vast machine of therapeutic intervention into everyday life, what did you think the end result would be? A generation that was liberal and tough? Come off it. It\u2019s those trends, those longstanding trends of censorship and therapy, that created today\u2019s creepy campus intolerance; it\u2019s you who made these monsters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan O&#8217;Neil at Spiked blows the whistle. It is indeed interesting, and worrying, that students are so sensitive and censorious today. But I have a question for the hand-wringers, the media people, academics and liberal thinkers who are so disturbed by what they\u2019re calling the \u2018Yale snowflakes\u2019: what did you think would happen? When you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126185,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126184\/revisions\/126185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}