![]() 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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