Campus Cowardice and Where the Buck Stops

A banner at Stanford this week. (Via @mualphaxi / X)
Microaggressions are met with moral condemnation. But actual violence is tolerated—even glorified. On the rot inside our universities and what to do about it.
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American universities are places of exquisite sensitivity. Just ask Greg Patton. Patton is a USC professor who was suspended from his job a few years ago because he said a Chinese word—a filler word, like the word uh—that happened to sound like an English slur.
Or ask Leslie Neal-Boylan. She is dean at the nursing school at University of Massachusetts. …
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