It is weird that we have spent this much time talking about campus free speech. The germ of the discourse dates back to the early aftershocks of the Trump ascension, when the first generation of MAGA clout-chasers, (Milo Yiannopoulos, Candance Owens, Jordan Peterson and so on,) were enjoying a miraculous day in the sun. This was 2016 and 2017, when our institutions were simply not capable of diagnosing the freshly disfigured Republican party as a berserking death cult; akin to
As an unapologetic "chronic hand-raiser," I 100% concur with this post. Especially this bit:
"But more importantly, it allows these men to pin the socialist drift of the youth on something infernal at the heart of the university infrastructure, rather than, you know, the general unspooling of all things on Earth. The feeling of being alive in 2022 is so much more radicalizing than whatever books a professor is assigning; columnists should investigate that reality more often, but I'm sure the idea that kids today are softer and more naïve than them is a much more seductive thesis."
I never got through both without having to pee
I was That Guy, the chronic handraiser.
I'm so sorry. I'll try to make amends.
As an unapologetic "chronic hand-raiser," I 100% concur with this post. Especially this bit:
"But more importantly, it allows these men to pin the socialist drift of the youth on something infernal at the heart of the university infrastructure, rather than, you know, the general unspooling of all things on Earth. The feeling of being alive in 2022 is so much more radicalizing than whatever books a professor is assigning; columnists should investigate that reality more often, but I'm sure the idea that kids today are softer and more naïve than them is a much more seductive thesis."
I'm not sure what I expected here, but it wasn't a column actually celebrating the substitution of mindless partying for learning.