I read this article earlier, and the entire time I was doing so, I kept thinking about my daughter who is getting ready to leave the fold for college.  During the selection process, she had applied to several pretty exclusive schools that specialize in the field she plans to pursue.  I was talking to her about her choices one day a few months back, and  I noticed that there was a college that had been removed from her list, and I asked her why?  Her response gave me hope that not all is lost.

 

She said that she really liked the school, and had it near the top of the list of options, but then she did some research, and found that this is one of those universities that has created one of the safe spaces where kids can go to avoid being offended.  After seeing this, my kid removed the school from her list and moved on. 

 

The notion that we must remove anything that we find offensive is ridiculous, but it's the new mantra.  The special little snowflakes label for this generation is sadly chalked with truth.  These kids have been raised in an environment where everyone gets a participation trophy, nobody knows the score, who won or lost, and where competition is squelched to avoid hurting anyone's feelings.  When you read articles like this, or others where there's strong consideration being given to doing away with any sort of recognition for students who are valedictorians, salutatorians, or any of the [BLEEP] laude designations because it might hurt the feelings of those who weren't able to achieve these accomplishments, you realize that this is ultimately a culmination of all of the progressive  nonsense that has neutered our society and paralyzed it over political correctness.  I saw a term that perfectly describes the tolerant left in 2016: we're living in the era of the tyranny of tolerance.

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