I think it may be the lack of US context for you. In the last two years or so, there has been a fairly significant blowback against liberals, particularly on college campuses, who use terms like "trigger", "safe space", etc. as reasons to censor. In this case, for instance, it is absolutely important for children to learn about Jefferson (the good and the bad), and refusing to learn, for instance, the importance of the Declaration of Independence because the person who wrote it owned slaves is exactly the sort of left-wing hand wringing which has led to this blowback.
A couple of examples: http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid (http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid) http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/ (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/)
Now, as a college professor, I can say that I've never seen anything like the incidents at Yale and Missouri which served to start recent debate on this topic, and I'd guess that the actual incidents of censorship are few and far between. But this is a pretty good example of "leftwing bullshit", if you were looking for one.
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Date: 2015-12-02 07:51 pm (UTC)A couple of examples:
http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid (http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid)
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/ (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/)
Now, as a college professor, I can say that I've never seen anything like the incidents at Yale and Missouri which served to start recent debate on this topic, and I'd guess that the actual incidents of censorship are few and far between. But this is a pretty good example of "leftwing bullshit", if you were looking for one.