NEW YORK — There's a new religion exploding on the campuses of American
universities and colleges, says Thomas Cooley professor of ethical leadership
at New York University, Jonathan Haidt.
And if it isn't stopped, it might just be better to shut them all down in the
next 10 or 20 years.
The religion of fundamental social justice sweeping across college
campuses is so alarming, intense, and dripping with such extreme liberal
fundamentalism, says Haidt, it has created an existential crisis for American
academia while punishing heretics with public shame.
"There is an extremely intense, fundamental social justice religion
that's taking over, not all students, but a very strong [space] of it, at all
our colleges and universities. They are prosecuting blasphemy and this is where
we are," Haidt warned an audience about the religion at a lecture billed "The
American University's New Assault on Free Speech," organized by the Manhattan
Institute in New York City this week.
In his most recent book, The New York Times best-seller, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and
Religion, Haidt, a social psychologist whose research examines the
intuitive foundations of morality, gives an account of the origins of the human
moral sense. He shows how variations in moral intuitions can help explain the
American culture war between left and right.
On Monday, he described how fundamental social justice is rapidly
limiting free speech by cultivating "sacred spaces" for issues supported by
increasingly fragile students attending colleges and universities
today.
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