Haidt and Lukianoff’s previous book, The Coddling of the American Mind, argued that overprotection on campuses, through concepts like trigger warnings and safe spaces, harms youth. However, their conservative critique overlooks the nuances of these tools, which originated to support trauma survivors and combat racial harassment, not to coddle. Their analysis reflects psychology’s mainstream tendencies: it is individuocentric, reductionist, and frames solutions as personal rather than systemic, thereby aligning with a conservative worldview that ignores complex structural issues.