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Nikole Hannah-Jones’ ignorance on education, defining ‘helping’ as hazardous and other commentary

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Conservative: NHJ’s Ignorance on Education

Nikole Hannah-Jones’ piece “blaming white people” for “violent, failing schools that don’t assign homework and don’t actually teach students,” shows she “evidently doesn’t know what education is, or its purpose,” thunders The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson. NHJ’s alleged “commitment to the ‘collective good’ ” shadows her lack of interest in “education as such” except as a “credentialing mechanism.” Her daughter “had never been taught the skills of independent study,” she reports, plainly unaware it was “primarily her job, as a parent, to teach” her child those skills. She worried more about “proving a point about racial injustice” than the “particulars of her daughter’s education.” 

Workplace watch: Defining ‘Helping’ as Hazardous

Ever more people are “considered susceptible to secondary trauma,” the experience of “hearing about another’s trauma,” observes City Journal’s Christina Buttons. “The concept has been invoked with increasing frequency” thanks to the “occupational stress” of “working in public mental-health settings.” Anyone whose “job is wearing them down” can experience “burnout,” but calling it “trauma gives the experience a much more serious meaning.” Seeing “exposure to other people’s trauma” as “potentially harmful to the clinician” means “difficult patients can be........

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