Learning Outcome #3: Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal
reading response for inquiry, learning, and thinking.

Small Change Malcolm Gladwell:

Four college freshman sat down at the counter for lunch at woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina

Refused to get served because of skin color

Started a protest

Students started doing school work at the counter in order to protest 

Protester numbers grew by the day

White teens flew confederate flags 

College football team arrived white student yelled “here comes the wrecking crew”

More students from different universities joined in the protest

How is social media reinventing activism?

Why does it matter who sits at the counter to eat?

Greensboro in the early 1960’s was the kind of place racial insubordination was routinely met with violence 

Racial slurs were said during the protests by a white gang 

Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

What words do they want to scrub campuses clean of?

Advising professors not to teach rape law

Liberal professor terrified of liberal students

Comedians condemned the oversensitivity of college students

Trigger warnings

Microaggressions

Asian American students tried to raise awareness by writing microaggressions on the steps of the math hall but faced backlash 

Current movement about emotional well being

Turn campuses into safe places  

What are the effects of this new protectiveness on the students themselves?

Don’t teach students what to think teach them how to think

Discussion Post: Empathy can play many roles in life. Empathy can differ in situations many empathy moments come when someone feels bad for another person. One example from the text “We Are All Fundamentalists Now” by Samuel James is how he mentioned “trigger warnings” and how sometimes professors will go out of there way to accommodate things so they are culturally appropriate and not apart of cancel culture. Another example from the text it says “While many conservatives see in the trigger warning a pathetic mechanism for protecting the feelings of “snowflakes.” This shows that there are different sides of feelings the conservative side does not agree with the trigger warnings trying to be put in place while the liberal side wants the trigger warnings so be in effect for everything. I relate to both of these quotes because as a child I was limited to what I was able to watch because my parents didn’t want me seeing anything inappropriate at a young age. As time went by I was able to watch more shows and movies. With trigger warnings being more common because of cancel culture it limits what is able to be said and how things are said. I have realized this the past few years of school how topics have been limited and not much touched appon.

The questions I have in my annotations I was able to find the answers to shortly after reading. I do not have any unanswered questions as the text was clear enough. What I annotate is important words and questions that I have about what I am reading. To understand questions I had to re-phrase a few just to make it more clear to myself. In all the text we had to read there were many words I had to look up for the sentence and paragraph to have a better understanding. The text “Unfollow”, by Adrian Chen, had many words I had to look up to get a better understanding. I have been able to make connection personally and between other texts.