NYU Graduates Booed Their Own Professor Jonathan Haidt for Writing a Book That Criticized Wokeness

College students can be a rabid bunch, and NYU’s graduating class proved it by booing one of their own professors at Yankee Stadium.

His follow-up to “The Coddling of the American Mind,” called “The Anxious Generation,” has spent over a year on international bestseller lists and is the reason phone-free school policies are now being written into state law.

The protest came from the 4-member Executive Committee of NYU’s Student Government Assembly, not the full student body. Their May 5 statement accused Haidt of “homophobic remarks in a class,” “public misconceptions about transgender identity,” and “disturbing rhetoric around antiracism, social justice, and diversity, equity and inclusion.”…

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