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The Rise of the Collegiate Snowflake
by Abraham H. Miller
May 13, 2016

…In the name of sensitivity, our snowflakes are taught what they can say and what they cannot say, especially with regard to members of those groups designated as victims. In the Weimar Republic, everyone was looking for their grandmother. In today’s university, nearly everyone is looking for some claim to oppression. I once had a series of conversations with black students who sought to make the point that the Holocaust was nothing like the Middle Passage. Therefore, they asserted, blacks had a far greater claim to victimhood than did Jews. Victimhood is the highly sought-after status on campus. The university has become a therapeutic society where students want to discover and relish their status as victims. Victims get special care. READ MORE