Wendy Kaminer|February 20
Wendy Kaminer is the author of eight books, including "A Fearful Freedom: Women's Flight From Equality."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-progressive-ideas-behind-the-lack-of-free-speech-on-
campus/2015/02/20/93086efe-b0e7-11e4-886b-c22184f27c35_story.html?tid=hybrid_default_strip_1
Is an academic discussion of free speech potentially traumatic? A recent panel for Smith College alumnae aimed at "challenging the ideological echo chamber" elicited this ominous "trigger/content warning" when a transcript appeared in the campus newspaper: "Racism/racial slurs, ableist slurs, antisemitic language, anti-Muslim/Islamophobic language, anti-immigrant language, sexist/misogynistic slurs, references to race-based violence, references to antisemitic violence."
No one on this panel, in which I participated, trafficked in slurs. So what prompted the warning?
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Collectively, we're a touchy group, and rightly so. Maybe we take it too far sometimes, I know I do. Food for thought.
Keep it friendly, people, this one could be dynamite!
I want to thank Mrs Izzy for reformatting that for me. I post from a tablet and some of that is a bit difficult, but I'm ordering a keyboard with touchpad for it this week and that should make these kinds of posts much easier!