{"id":6596,"date":"2021-11-16T17:09:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T17:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6596"},"modified":"2021-11-16T17:09:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T17:09:53","slug":"coastal-carolina-university-is-trying-to-fire-a-professor-for-saying-hurt-feelings-were-not-a-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6596","title":{"rendered":"Coastal Carolina University Is Trying To Fire a Professor for Saying Hurt Feelings Were Not &#8216;a Big Deal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;In general, universities should stop caving to students who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/10\/08\/bright-sheng-university-of-michigan-othello-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">are unreasonably upset<\/a>&nbsp;about&nbsp; minor infractions\u2014but this wasn&#8217;t an infraction&nbsp;<em>at all<\/em>. Campus administrators would be well-advised not to put themselves in the position of being responsible for every hurt feeling, no matter how ill-founded or slight. There&#8217;s little benefit to making diversity synonymous with absurdity.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/10\/20\/coastal-carolina-university-theater-professor-fired-speech-whiteboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/10\/20\/coastal-carolina-university-theater-professor-fired-speech-whiteboard\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In general, universities should stop caving to students who are unreasonably upset about  minor infractions\u2014but this wasn&#8217;t an infraction at all. Campus administrators would be well-advised not to put themselves in the position of being responsible for every hurt feeling, no matter how ill-founded or slight. There&#8217;s little benefit to making diversity synonymous with absurdity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[204,94,1440,356,1280],"class_list":["post-6596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-cancel-culture","tag-colleges","tag-diversity","tag-education","tag-woke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6597,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596\/revisions\/6597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}