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Heather MacDonald: All who cherish free expression, especially on campuses, must combat the growing zeal for censorship.

Where are the faculty? American college students are increasingly resorting to brute force, and sometimes criminal violence, to shut down ideas they don’t like. Yet when such travesties occur, the faculty are, with few exceptions, missing in action, though they have themselves been given the extraordinary privilege of tenure to protect their own liberty of thought and speech. It is time for them to take their heads out of the sand.

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You have misidentified where their heads are!

#1 WILSON on 2017-04-21 14:43 (Reply)

It's all theater. The students get to protest, Heather gets to be a victim. Campus rent-a-cops get to play real cops, real cops get overtime.

If she didn't enjoy the experience, she wouldn't subject herself to it.

#2 Fetterman on 2017-04-21 17:23 (Reply)

No way! MacDonald's excellent work has chronicled the dissolution of America's institutions for years. I doubt that there's much enjoyment to any of it.

#2.1 Thalpy on 2017-04-21 20:35 (Reply)

Someone who keeps walking into situations where she's yelled at by children is either (1) a wannabe martyr or (2) a closet masochist, and that's generously assuming the two aren't the same.

#2.1.1 Fetterman on 2017-04-21 20:41 (Reply)

Where are the faculty and administrators? Why aren't they sending the offending students home to rethink. Good grief, they suspend little children from school for chewing their pop tarts into the shape of a gun or the state of Idaho, depending on your imagination. Does nothing bestir the administrators to action? Are they so afraid of their students?

#3 thr elephant's child (Link) on 2017-04-22 05:50 (Reply)

"American college students are increasingly resorting to brute force, and sometimes criminal violence, to shut down ideas they don’t like."

Where are the faculty? Where are the police to arrest these criminals, and where is the Dean of students to expel these thugs??

#4 locomotivebreath1901 on 2017-04-22 09:28 (Reply)

Their standing beside the rioters. They are part of the problem!

#5 Mhf on 2017-04-22 20:56 (Reply)

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