Time Magazine’s latest on campus speech codes, by Katy
Steinmetz, Oct. 12, link, seems to be well summarized by this one Cornell student.
“many on
the left argue that some things are no longer open for discussion, that speech
itself can be violence and that trying to question the equality of women or
undocumented people or same-sex couples can amount to harassment. “Ignorance is
hostility in this political climate,” says Cornell student Treviño. “It’s
attacking our mental well-being.”
Would my reviewing the
past military draft gratuitously be viewed as harassment because it might tempt
a politician into passing it again? Same
for filial responsibility laws.
Or what about
revisiting the draconian reaction of some conservatives in Texas in the 1980s
against gay men and the AIDS epidemic?
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