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user-inactivated · 2885 days ago · link · · parent · post: "The Big Uneasy" or "The New Activism of Liberal Arts Colleges" or "Oberlin is full of spoiled children"
Universities turning into businesses where students are customers is surely a thing, but I don't think it's the primary cause here. Generations of activists bumping up against "your thing isn't real"/"it would be too much trouble to accommodate you" over real issues came to see resistance to anyone's demands as wrong because the resistance to their demands were, often if not always, wrong, and as those activist's causes get incorporated into the mainstream that sense that you never say "no" comes with them and spoiled children get spoiled. It'll pass, better to just write it off as the price we're paying for the institutional inertia of the past.