Our own Bryan Stascavage, Wesleyan University provocateur and war veteran, makes his debut in The New York Times with a contribution to the paper’s “Room for Debate” section.
The subject posed to debaters this time is “when a generation becomes less tolerant of free speech.”
Bryan, known nationally for his controversial Black Lives Matter column, is the only current student to offer his thoughts, though he’s in good company (First Amendment law professor Eugene Volokh explains “the habits of censorship” that students are learning).
College students are not just cocooning themselves inside “echo chambers” on campus, Stascavage writes:
Instead of being content with their own sanitized echo chambers, they are extending their worldview to the surrounding environment. These vocal activists are culturally terraforming the environment around them, using public shaming and soft threats as their means to keep voices they disagree with in check. The evidence of aggressive targeting by these activists already exists. Speakers have been uninvited, comedians have sworn off performing at campuses. This is cultural terraforming in action.
Smith College President Kathleen McCartney, one of the debaters, makes no mention of her own university’s rush to shame her for saying “all lives matter” in an email to faculty.
Read Bryan’s column and the others.
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