They aren't. They're promoting it, but some people are just not comfortable with hearing alternative points of view.
If they can't hear different points of view, they don't belong in college. This is what happens when you bring the lowest of the low into prestigious institutions. Unqualified morons. And they aren't studying engineering. Useless majors like Women's and Men's Studies, etc. I don't see what that major can provide in terms of a paycheck.
It's spreading all over the Western world. A Canadian American Trump supporter wore the hat and a SJW called it "unsafe". How foolish. She thinks her little bubble revolves around her and her type. Wonder what job she'll get in the future?
I was referring to conservatives as much as liberals.
Sorry, but education isn't and shouldn't be purely vocational. It's about analytical thinking and analysis, moving beyond simple A to B thinking. There are jobs for people who major in something other than engineering, and while it's important to have some students going into business or a STEM field, we need people studying the humanities as well. Pushing too many students into STEM will simply guarantee that a larger percentage of the population is without a job. We should have engineering students who enjoy engineering, and are motivated to contribute to the field, not people who are only in it for the money.
The general impression one gets is that majors of the name "X Studies" tend to be short on analytical thinking and long on polemics, tho I will admit they do tend to branch across the more traditional divisions of the humanities. They do that by dividing the humanities by "who is affected" rather than by the "what is affected" that the traditional divisions of the humanities have emphasized. This non-traditional division isn't bad per se, but as I pointed out, these relatively novel programs have had a general tendency of emphasizing a particular point of view rather than critical thinking. That isn't too surprising. If they weren't trying to advance a particular viewpoint, the initiators of these programs would have been unlikely to go to the bother. One can hope that once the initiators and the initial followers retire that these "X Studies" start to lose their excessive orthodoxy and become more like the more traditional humanities.
