--- title: Schools Need to Teach Young People How Not to Be Offended description: Irshad Manji, author of "Don't Label Me," argues that schools shouldn't just teach students how not to be offensive. canonical: https://time.com/5543441/stop-getting-offended/ author: Joey Lautrup article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-06T20:50:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T22:56:10.267Z article:section: Ideas og:title: It's Time to Teach Young People How to Stop Being So Offended og:description: 'Giving offense is the price of diversity, not an impediment to diversity' og:url: https://time.com/5543441/stop-getting-offended/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc5db1611708770e/698946314ee262c9dc3141ed/work-here-justines-edits.00_00_11_02.still001.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: WORK HERE-JUSTINE'S EDITS.00_00_11_02.Still001 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: It's Time to Teach Young People How to Stop Being So Offended twitter:description: 'Giving offense is the price of diversity, not an impediment to diversity' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc5db1611708770e/698946314ee262c9dc3141ed/work-here-justines-edits.00_00_11_02.still001.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # It's Time to Teach Young People How to Stop Being So Offended  by [Joey Lautrup](https://time.com/author/joey-lautrup/)  ## Joey Lautrup Mar 6, 2019 8:50 PM UTC   by [Joey Lautrup](https://time.com/author/joey-lautrup/)  ## Joey Lautrup Mar 6, 2019 8:50 PM UTC Irshad Manji, author of [_Don’t Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times_](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250157986/ref=as%5Fli%5Fqf%5Fasin%5Fil%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=time037-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1250157986&linkId=d5110aa1386c14a8d04996d877c7d6b0), thinks it’s about time we all stopped getting offended. Speaking to TIME at New York’s Tenement Museum, Manji argues that when we allow ourselves to take offense, we miss out on the opportunity to learn from people with views that differ from our own. “Giving offense is the price of diversity, not an impediment to diversity,” she says. “While more and more schools are teaching young people how not to be offensive, they also need to be teaching a new generation how not to be offended.” Watch her full argument in the video above. Schools Need to Teach Young People How Not to Be Offended ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5543441/stop-getting-offended/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5543441/stop-getting-offended/"},"headline":"It's Time to Teach Young People How to Stop Being So Offended","datePublished":"2019-03-06T20:50:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T22:56:10.267Z","description":"'Giving offense is the price of diversity, not an impediment to diversity'","url":"https://time.com/5543441/stop-getting-offended/","keywords":["debate","society","Evergreen"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc5db1611708770e/698946314ee262c9dc3141ed/work-here-justines-edits.00_00_11_02.still001.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joey Lautrup","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joey-lautrup/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc5db1611708770e/698946314ee262c9dc3141ed/work-here-justines-edits.00_00_11_02.still001.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"WORK HERE-JUSTINE'S EDITS.00_00_11_02.Still001","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/debate/","name":"debate"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5543441/stop-getting-offended/","name":"It's Time to Teach Young People How to Stop Being So Offended"}}]}] ```