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[quote=Anonymous]      That's only a snap shot above.

Last week a free speech conference was disrupted by a protester who did not like a hyperbolic joke that the email response was an overreaction (he said something like by the email response "you would have thought someone had burned down an Indian village").  This prompted immediate social network organizing and a hundred students mobbed outside of the conference -- reportedly led by a native American student group.  One white student entered and disrupted the conference -- he was eventually arrested.  He is quoted as saying the police used appropriate force, but commented he thought that was only because he was a white student. Others outside yelled at attendees when they exited that they were racists and that they were making a joke out of genocide.  Some students were spat upon by protesters. They demanded their speakers be included in the conference -- which was planned 6 months in advance and required preregistration (but had been open to anyone who registered) and was full to capacity.

This is intimidation aimed at not only squelching any speech that could be construed as offensive to anyone, but in weaving a consistent narrative of untold oppression and victimhood.   While there is room for these perspectives on campus, our future is in a sorry state when it is the dominant theme on our campuses.   Children are being killed in stray cross fires by gangs in our cities, ISIS may be blowing planes out of the sky, transgender people face assault and murder at alarming rates, homelessness abounds, etc.  But the best and brightest minds of the ivy league clearly have more important things to worry about.   If I was their parents paying tuition, I would think twice about sending them back. 
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