“Seven other things that have been declared ‘unsafe’ at colleges”

You may have heard that a screening of American Sniper was cancelled at the University of Michigan last week because it was considered provocative.  As a replacement, authorities there decided to show the intellectually stimulating and culturally rich film Paddington instead.  (I’m not making this up.)

Apparently, though, the stuffed bear community protested, because the powers-that-be there in Ann Arbor soon went back to American Sniper.

Still, the principle of protecting students at American colleges and universities from thoughts that might challenge them and from ideas that diverge from academic leftist orthodoxy remains a sound one.  What more appropriate place could there possibly be to protect, shelter, and cocoon young minds against dissonance than an institution of higher learning?

Here are some wonderful illustrations of things so dangerous, so threatening, that innocent young people shouldn’t be exposed to them:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416729/seven-other-things-have-been-declared-unsafe-colleges-katherine-timpf

Incidentally, in this spirit, here’s a nice piece about an attempt at language reform that would, if successfully implemented, protect young people and others from dangerous ideas in the future.  It would spare our overworked academic bureaucrats the necessity of having to keep everybody under close surveillance and of constant intervention to stamp out thoughtcrime:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak