ALL CAPS Scares Snowflake Students

RUSH: You know, ladies and gentlemen, it wasn’t that long ago. You may remember this. When, I say “not that long,” it was at least 20 years ago, and you will remember this. Those of you who were with us then will remember that all of a sudden teachers in public school, middle school, high school, had to stop using red markers to grade papers because the red intimated the students. It made them nervous. Red was a color that denoted problems, emergency.

“You’re wrong! You’ve done something illegal.” So they had to stop using red. Well, now the little helpless tarts and snowflakes have made an additional demand, and this one is in academe. “University lecturers have been told not to use words in capital letters when setting assignments because it might frighten students into failure.” This is a journalism school in England I’m talking about here, and the teachers at this journalism school have been instructed not to use all caps. It’s too intimidating.

It’s too scary, and it makes the students feel like they’re being yelled at. “Staff at Leeds Trinity’s school of journalism have also been told to ‘write in a helpful, warm tone, avoiding officious language and negative instructions.’” That is a quote from the guidebook. This is from the Express newspaper in the U.K. “Staff at Leeds Trinity’s school of journalism” cannot use all caps. It’s too scary. It intimidates; it frightens. The students think they’re being yelled at.

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