![]() ![]() They argue that embracing the culture of safetyism has interfered with young people’s social, emotional, and intellectual development. The authors define safetyism as a culture or belief system in which safety (which includes "emotional safety") has become a sacred value, which means that people become unwilling to make trade-offs demanded by other practical and moral concerns. The book goes on to discuss microaggressions, identity politics, "safetyism", call-out culture, and intersectionality. The authors state that these three "great untruths" contradict modern psychology and ancient wisdom from many cultures. Lukianoff and Haidt argue that many problems on campus have their origins in three "great untruths" that have become prominent in education: "What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker" "always trust your feelings" and "life is a battle between good people and evil people". ![]() Lukianoff and Haidt argue that overprotection is having a negative effect on university students and that the use of trigger warnings and safe spaces does more harm than good. ![]() It is an expansion of a popular essay the two wrote for The Atlantic in 2015. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure is a 2018 book by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. ![]()
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