WR is great. He's right about most colleges and most students, even at some "better" schools much of the time. But at the better/best schools there is a public woke culture that can't be violated. So if anyone openly violates it, the punitive mechanism lurches into action, and nobody can disagree without being punished. The change wokene…
WR is great. He's right about most colleges and most students, even at some "better" schools much of the time. But at the better/best schools there is a public woke culture that can't be violated. So if anyone openly violates it, the punitive mechanism lurches into action, and nobody can disagree without being punished. The change wokeness made to the older left was to conceive any speech violation as genuine personal violence against a few fragile people (known or unknown). Empathy is a good thing -- the problem is when it is highly selective.
WR is great. He's right about most colleges and most students, even at some "better" schools much of the time. But at the better/best schools there is a public woke culture that can't be violated. So if anyone openly violates it, the punitive mechanism lurches into action, and nobody can disagree without being punished. The change wokeness made to the older left was to conceive any speech violation as genuine personal violence against a few fragile people (known or unknown). Empathy is a good thing -- the problem is when it is highly selective.