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Why Are We Scapegoating College Kids?

BLAME GAME

Instead of focusing on real issues like tuition and poorly paid professors, the culture wars have focused on trigger warnings.

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When my college got shut down in 2008, I was blamed. Not necessarily me as an individual, but as I was enrolled at Antioch College after the golden age of the baby boomers, I was part of a “toxic student culture” that the administration, older alumni, and conservative and mainstream...

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