Opinion of extreme 'sensitivity' measures taken by academia

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These students are going to be reading a lot of works with gendered language in it so they need to be okay with it in order to have an education that doesn't completely miss the point.  I use "they" a lot of the time, sometimes "he," and occasionally "she" for a hypothetical person of indefinite gender.  Language is flexible and in some ways inherently imprecise.  I am guessing languages where concepts and inanimate objects are assigned gendered forms do not have this obsession with pc pronouns, as they recognize there is some arbitrariness involved?

About as horrible as the training seminars where they encourage us to practice 'mindfulness' and other such neopagan practices. Thankfully, no one actually cares and instead views the conversation as an hour they could have been doing something else.

Mindfulness seems like it would be a very helpful skill for dealing with the stress of being a student, and I don't think it need conflict with Christianity.

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About as horrible as the training seminars where they encourage us to practice 'mindfulness' and other such neopagan practices. Thankfully, no one actually cares and instead views the conversation as an hour they could have been doing something else.

Mindfulness seems like it would be a very helpful skill for dealing with the stress of being a student, and I don't think it need conflict with Christianity.

I was being a little hyperbolic in calling it neopagan perhaps, but, using Wikipedia's definition of it:

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There is definitely some tension here with the Christian understandings of reflection, examination of conscience, and prayer in general. I don't think the university is trying to make everyone Buddhist, rather to brainwash us all into "non-judgmentalism" of whichever variety is fashionable of late.

Also, what is academia doing putting Buddhist practices into secular seminars?

It is because it is accepted by mainstream psychology as a way to avoid downward spirals of anxiety.

Sometimes it can be helpful to observe of one's feelings and experiences while suspending judgement, which is not the same thing as never judging anything right or wrong.