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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4299040" data-attributes="member: 48469">I think one of the more disturbing trends among hard leftists is their promotion of the notion that any speech can be violence, depending on the reaction of the person who hears it. It wasn&#039;t always this way. And I&#039;m thankful that I attended college while campuses were still places that welcomed discussion of even the most controversial ideas. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/07/why-its-a-bad-idea-to-tell-students-words-are-violence/533970/" target="_blank">It&#039;s a Really Bad Idea to Tell Students Words Are Violence</a>&quot;Of all the ideas percolating on college campuses these days, the most dangerous one might be that speech is sometimes violence. We’re not talking about verbal threats of violence, which are used to coerce and intimidate, and which are illegal and not protected by the First Amendment. We’re talking about speech that is deemed by members of an identity group to be critical of the group, or speech that is otherwise upsetting to members of the group. This is the kind of speech that many students today refer to as a form of violence.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4299040, member: 48469"] I think one of the more disturbing trends among hard leftists is their promotion of the notion that any speech can be violence, depending on the reaction of the person who hears it. It wasn't always this way. And I'm thankful that I attended college while campuses were still places that welcomed discussion of even the most controversial ideas. [URL="https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/07/why-its-a-bad-idea-to-tell-students-words-are-violence/533970/"]It's a Really Bad Idea to Tell Students Words Are Violence[/URL] "Of all the ideas percolating on college campuses these days, the most dangerous one might be that speech is sometimes violence. We’re not talking about verbal threats of violence, which are used to coerce and intimidate, and which are illegal and not protected by the First Amendment. We’re talking about speech that is deemed by members of an identity group to be critical of the group, or speech that is otherwise upsetting to members of the group. This is the kind of speech that many students today refer to as a form of violence." [/QUOTE]

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