DEMANDING KINDER CLASSROOMS DOESN’T MAKE YOU A SNOWFLAKE

(Originally posted on The Walrus online edition at thewalrus.ca, 23 Aug. 2017) Right-wing pundits have lately spent a lot of energy bemoaning the quality of today’s universities. They complain about everything from trans-inclusive language in the classroom to testing accommodations for neurodiverse and disabled students to incorporating Indigenous content into curricula. This grousing is part of the larger conservative response to recent civil rights activism, wherein so-called student “snowflakes”—represented as terminology-obsessed, identity-focused, emotionally overwrought busybodies—are derided…

I am grateful to be a visitor working on the lands of the Musqueam people, on whose traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories UBC is located and to be living as a visitor within the unceded ancestral territories of the shíshálh people.

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