Thread by @SiyandaWrites

I truly cannot fathom how an academic can go into an interview and claim that social media is responsible for college aged people’s depression and not mention even once the weight of staggering student loans. Like...am I crazy?

How do people go on public forums and talk about anything else but the economic life of generation z? I heard this social psychologist blame “safe spaces” for increased depression in college aged people. I almost fainted.

We’re talking about a generation of people who may never get out from under their student debt. By 2015 Americans owed a total of 1.41 trillion $ in loans for school. Then this guy’s gonna go on radio and say talking about microaggressions is making people soft. Wtf is happening

Is this some kind of sick joke? I cannot listen to a single piece of analysis about American college culture that does not mention the highest amount of student debt in human history. It is utterly nonsensical and painfully myopic.

There’s people out there making entire livings from saying young people have “coddled minds” - that the world is too soft for millennials/gen-z...meanwhile young Americans are doing school shooting drills and paying through the nose for it. Unbelievable

I’m also reminded about being forced to present on one of these papers when I cannot bring myself to respect anything that starts with the sentence “the idea of microaggressions didn’t start until 2014.” Imagine the contempt

See that’s why I always say this whole “PC culture” thing is really a conversation between White people b/c otherwise it would be a display of incredible contempt for Black Scholarship. Imagine saying being too inclusive is bad for people. Lemme go drink some water

Also which schools are you teaching at that safe spaces are the most serious problem? I doubt it’s community colleges or state schools or places where the vast majority of higher ed students are to be found.