My “The Deep Theory behind Stifling Speech” is now republished at Britain’s Church and State site:
“The protesting students are neither ‘snowflakes’ who can’t take the heat nor ‘delicate flowers’ whose feelings have been bruised. University students have seen movie violence, broken up with boyfriends and girlfriends, read ugly things on the internet, viewed porn clips, lost grandparents, and heard distressing news from around the world. And they survived.
We also learn from the protesters’ own vocabulary that many of them have a rich capacity for swearing, insults, and other crudities. Yet from childhood all have learned from their teachers, mom and dad, and Disney movies when and when not say ‘Fuck you’ and ‘Your type disgusts me.’
They may be angry, but they are adults who know what they are doing. ‘Cry-bullies’ is half-right, as the tears are a tactic. …
Read more here.
[Related: “Defending Free Speech Against Postmodernism” and my other articles at CHURCH and STATE.]
These apes on college campuses, which happen to stand on two feet, know what they’re doing. They’re basically human, but, given their choices, that’s what makes them contemptible. By their choices, they’re like nothing more than mouths and stomachs, with some muscles attached to bones, activated by a nervous system without a human brain, which they’ve chosen to discard, and we’re supposed to TOLERATE their violence.(?!)