Section 2
In the "The Coddling of the American Mind" in The Atlantic, we look at the Micro-aggressions and "triggering" statements that seem to make people uncomfortable and angry. People seem to try keep things politically correct in the things we do and say. For example, reading a book Ku Klux clan is somehow wrong. It didn't state if it supported it or not, but it did trigger the janitor into getting the student guilty of just reading a book. The things we can or can not say are slowly being filtered to "protect" ourselves and the future generation.
In my opinion, yes we do have to respect others from where they came from, but there's only so much things we can protect our generation from that we have to realize from there. The hurtful things that people say also help us grow as a person and realize things we don't know about our self or cultural things. Though this opinion of protecting what we do and say does contradict with free speech. Then we should question, what is "free speech"? But these things are so situational that its hard to make a set rules for what is right and wrong.
How do we define what is right to say and what is not given all the circumstances and situations that come up?
Lukianoff, G., & Haidt, J. (2015, September). The Coddling of the American Mind. The Atlantic. Retrieved May 14, 2017, from https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/
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