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25 Predictions for 2025 (Part II)
In the 2018 book The Coddling of the American Mind, Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff defined safetyism as “a culture or belief system in which safety has become a sacred value, which means that people are unwilling to make trade-offs demanded by other practical and moral concerns.”15
Alex Berenson • Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
The rise of trigger warnings and other forms of acquiescence behind which the left has zealously rallied for more than a decade has backfired spectacularly, by fostering a sense of harm that often does not exist. Richard Alan Friedman, a professor5 of clinical psychiatry at Weil Cornell Medical College, said in an interview that, beginning in 2016
... See moreAlexander C. Karp • The Technological Republic: The Sunday Times bestseller from the great minds behind Palantir
As Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt have shown in their 2018 book The Coddling of the American Mind, catastrophizing has become one of the distinctive attitudes of the era.
Douglas Murray • The Madness of Crowds
But according to Haidt, the globalists had so convinced themselves of the moral superiority of openness, freedom, and One World that they were unable to process the genuine fear these things aroused in millions of people.
Anand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
“The Humanitarian Principle: Any of the above, but with the condition that the first priority be to cause no hurt.” 25 This is the justification for censoring certain ideas that are believed to cause psychological pain, “epistemic violence,” or the erasure of certain groups of human beings—an argument found throughout Social Justice scholarship and
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
policies.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
