04 - Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning - Victimhood Culture

Two for Tea Podcast

1:39 From honour culture, through dignity culture, to victimhood culture 7:26 When did Bradley and Jason first become aware of the shift in culture 9:27 Microaggressions 14:30 Standpoint theory and identity politics 18:30 How campus culture has changed 23:39 The spillover into larger society 27:00 Has this brought any positive developments? 33:38 Campbell and Manning’s theoretical and philosophical background 36:31 Diversity training 40:00 Privilege 43:25 Spillover into personal relationships 50:10 Threats to free speech on campus 55:30 Some ways to combat all this Further References Emile Durkheim: https://www.iep.utm.edu/durkheim/ Donald Black’s theory of law and social control, reviewed by Bradley: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396607/obo-9780195396607-0067.xml For the free-range parenting, see: http://www.freerangekids.com/ And Lenore Skenazy’s Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry (2009) FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education): https://www.thefire.org/ Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (2018): https://www.thecoddling.com/ For Haidt and Lukianoff’s original article is here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/ I reviewed The Coddling of the American Mind for Areo magazine: https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/26/good-intentions-gone-awry-jonathan-haidt-and-greg-lukianoffs-the-coddling-of-the-american-mind-book-review/ And Haidt and Lukianoff have also appeared on this podcast, to discuss the book: https://soundcloud.com/user-761174326/06-jonathan-haidt-and-greg-lukianoff