If you read her article first without clicking to his linked one, which I'm sure most do, she seems to make some valid points and the reader begins going along with what she says. After all it is well written and doesn't read like a hot headed rant. Though you can still sense a touch of saltiness in the words and, to me, it felt as if part of the story was taken out. So I scrolled up and clicked on his message and sure enough pieces of what he had said were cut out and placed out of context. The first bloggers whole argument was that the simple "notion" that campuses were living in "liberal bubbles" wasn't true. Which first of all, no not ALL of them are, but you can't ignore that plenty are. She brings up how he doesn't see the diversity in the colleges but if you read his article he clearly recognizes the age, race, gender diversity she so desperately tries to point out. He just recognizes that we don't care if they look different as long as they don't think different. Which I can see happening at my school, my home, even my work. We strive for physical diversity yet shun the thought of mental or opinion diversity.
I agree with her statement that diversity, "is generational and experiential". Each generation deals with "mixing it up" differently especially when it comes to education. But something that never seems to change, no matter your age, gender, or heritage, is if you don't a agree with the majority then you won't be heard or you will but you will probably be thought lesser of or simply ignored. There are those underdog stories where the little guy who thinks differently finally over comes the population, but that doesn't just happen in everyday life. You keep your head down, skate by, don't make too much noise. We are always told, "make a difference, stand for what you believe!" Yet when we do and if it doesn't agree with what others are saying its practically like we aren't speaking at all. I consider myself pretty liberal but that doesn't mean when I come across someone with conservative ideas I automatically assume they are bigots. Society makes it a point to try to never profile a person, never to type cast them... unless its about how they think right? And do you blame people for thinking our colleges are filled with a bunch of self righteous, touchy feely, gimme a puppy room, generation? Because time and time again they prove that they are.
Example, when Trump won, riots began, tears flowed, classes ceased, and the emotions took over. Their bubble was popped. And people lost it. Some people are so out of touch with what is happening, when something real happens they lose their "reality". Just because you don't want to learn about it because it goes against what you believe doesn't mean it isn't academic or that its irrelevant to you. Unless you believe you don't live in the same world as the rest of us and if that's the case you need to go get checked. We cannot keep spoon-feeding intolerance to things outside what you believe is true. Then all we will have is a bunch of mindless robots for the next generation.
People cannot seriously believe that just because where they are is perfect means the whole rest of the country, world, is too. That's just ludicrous. So to the girl who wrote the blog and others saying Kristof doesn't understand that its not as bad as it seems. Good for you. Either your college campus is that of myth or you are inside the infamous bubble you so whole-heartily believe doesn't exist. After all, "Insane people are always sure that they are fine" Same goes for the naïve, always thinking they know for sure what's happening in the world. Turn on the news, then get back to me.
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