The argument that people are ‘coddled’ is itself demeaning. Recommending that today’s youth be provided with psychotherapeutic interventions to help toughen them up continues psychology’s tradition of training people to ignore societal problems. Historically, dissent has been psychologically pathologised in ways that uphold the status quo, from diagnosing escaped slaves with drapetomania to labelling civil rights activists as schizophrenic. Today, protesters are often still dismissed as irrational or mentally ill. Psychology’s core approaches of individuocentrism, reductionism, and capitalist realism inherently frame dissent as a personal maladaptation rather than as a valid response to injustice, thereby reinforcing conservative norms.