In 2018, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student reported a professor who used the term “sacred cow” to the school’s administration, claiming the term was offensive to people who indeed worshipped cows. The same year, a Michigan State University student reported his dorm roommate to the school for watching a Ben Shapiro video in their room, calling the video “hate speech.” Shortly thereafter, a female Arizona State University student reported a male acting partner for performing too intensely during a final exam during their acting class.
Generation Z has been called spoiled, overly sensitive, and lazy. (I mean, “Gen Z” is just a reformulation of “Gen X” — come up with your own name!) But there is one thing for which they have truly shown a passion: demanding surveillance of other people and accepting the loss of privacy that comes with being constantly watched.
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