Worth a read.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/concept-creep/477939/
Sad. I often think about how deprived today's children are, even though in my circles, most of them bathe in financial stability and a shower of "things" and constant parental attention (which I think we mostly tried to circumvent, rather than encourage).
Yes, as the author points out, some aspects of our recent were bad - lead paint and no seatbelts - or even reprehensible like Jim Crow and the treatment of women in the workplace.
When I started my first job, I was shocked at the rampant and open anti-semitism (even though we had a Jewish co-worker). On those issues, we have made progress.... but meanwhile, this whole idea of trigger word announcements in college is disturbing. My therapist gave me a certificate stating that I find it so disturbing, that I'm allowed to exempt myself from all discussions of the topic, even if part of my course or covered in an article linked by rcjordan.
I thought college was a place where people encountered new perspectives and facts and ideas that made them uncomfortable.
I could see this coming in the 1990s when so many my university students were declared "special needs" because they had serious medical conditions like "test anxiety." I get it, some people have higher test anxiety than others, but then, part of your college grade is meant to tell employers how well you function under pressure and deadline.
What good is a straight-A journalism major who got extra time on every exam because some psych diagnosed him with serious test anxiety?