Cancel Culture Critic To NYU Grads: Protect Your Attention, Do Hard Things
The post Cancel Culture Critic To NYU Grads: Protect Your Attention, Do Hard Things appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt delivered an upbeat speech to grads despite the controversy. WireImage Jonathan Haidt walked into Yankee Stadium on Thursday as one of New York University’s most controversial commencement speakers in recent memory—and left graduates with a surprisingly bullish message about the future. Before the ceremony, students had protested NYU’s decision to select the social psychologist and Stern School of Business professor as the graduation speaker, arguing that the choice of Haidt, a vocal critic of cancel culture, doesn’t uphold “the values of inclusion, care, and respect for the graduating class,” that they deserved. During the ceremony, some students booed Haidt as he spoke while others walked out. But Haidt—author of the bestselling The Anxious Generation—used the moment less to relitigate culture wars than to deliver what sounded, in