Victims, Victims Everywhere: Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces, and Academic Freedoms

Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying makes some intriguing points:

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(Bret) yeah can I synthesize several things that have come up that are really at least are the same thing? So we have all experienced the kind of, what seems like an insane deafness to transparently obvious realities and it's very bewildering to hear people denying things that are just simply factual and could be tested in this room if we wanted to bother. But this also reflects the failure of, as Heather was pointing out, the lack of outdoor play for example. The thing about play outdoor is it teaches you when you're confused. If you're confused then you fall rather than make the leap that you think you're going to make and so you end up with pain which then gets pondered and you realize that there's something in error in your thought process.
And so by eliminating this kind of outdoor play what we do is we decide that all reality is abstract and that all reality being abstract it's very easy to go down some road where, wouldn't it be nice if we could say males and females are the same, therefore anything that turns out uneven as the result of some broken process that we should then seek to fix. The problem is that doesn't map to reality and the, I think what is actually taking place and it is surprisingly postmodern, is that there is this sort of abandonment of obligation to reality itself almost as if the people who are engaged in it don't believe that reality is a thing. And I would just submit to you that it is much more likely that that idea will take hold in an era where so much is done online, where you don't end up with a skinned knee because you were confused.
(Heather) yeah, prediction people who spent a lot of time hiking or playing sports or doing anything with their hands where they've created something at the end of the day, and they've got a chair that functions or there on the floor, are less likely to buy into the idea that reality is a social construct. If you are engaging with the physical world you know that there's a reality out there that abides by what you do or doesn't. Whereas if you're mostly engaged in the social world, it's much easier to delude yourself into imagining that maybe reality is a construct because social reality is.