There's an argument that there's too much conservative hand-wringing about some college kids being nasty censorious totalitarians. /1
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Replying to @Popehat
It's only some of them, and they're just idiot kids, and it's probably a phrase, and there are worse things, the argument goes. /2
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Fair enough. But there's no excuse, no minimization, to be offered when university administrators indulge censorship and totalitarianism. /3
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When admins -- especially at state schools -- yield to censorship demands, harass faculty/students for protected speech to please mobs /4
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..and especially when they coddle and empower anti-speech violence, that's not kids being kids. That's authority being authoritarians. /5
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Not only does it teach and model to the students and society, at state schools it's state action. It's government censorship. /6
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If you think it's no big deal, let me ask you this: would you be comfortable with that power being wielded by arch-conservatives?/7
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US has tens of thousands of colleges, unis. Freaking out over a tiny number of cherry-picked examples is disingenuous.
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