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The Coddling Of The American Mind

If Books Could Kill

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The Yoda Untruth: Always Trust Your Feelings

The chapter centers around the supposed epidemic of campus speakers being disinvited based on their controversial views. They say that this is the product of students acting emotionally and they pose the rhetorical question, should a student saying I am offended be sufficient reason to cancel a lecture? No one actually believes that you should always trust your feelings," he says. "I have never witnessed a single person even in like the depths of social media sincerely say that"

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