"In the wake of the mob violence against Charles Murray at Middlebury College and Heather MacDonald at Claremont McKenna College, it's getting harder to deny that there is a censorship problem at American college campuses.
"These cases are proliferating," Nicholas Christakis, the former head of Yale University's Silliman College, told Reason in an exclusive interview.
Christakis, readers will recall, faced his own mob of unfriendly students a year and a half ago, after his wife—an early childhood educator—sent a campus-wide email pushing back against the administration's opposition to offensive Halloween costumes.
The students implored Christakis to affirm that it was his job as an administrator to be their father figure on campus and provide a safe space where they would feel protected from emotional discomfort; when Christakis refused to do so—reasoning that learning is sometimes uncomfortable—they demanded his resignation.
The Yale incident happened in the fall 2015 semester. In retrospect, it almost looks like a high-water mark for the civil exchange of ideas.
..."If you look at these incidents over the last couple of years, we're seeing escalations, in my view," said Christakis.
Indeed, the escalation theory is getting harder and harder to deny.
...What's not obvious to Williams and Ceci, Christakis, Haidt, or any number of other defenders of classically liberal values, seems very obvious to a whole host of people who make excuses for the students..."
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Christakis, readers will recall, faced his own mob of unfriendly students a year and a half ago, after his wife—an early childhood educator—sent a campus-wide email pushing back against the administration's opposition to offensive Halloween costumes.
The students implored Christakis to affirm that it was his job as an administrator to be their father figure on campus and provide a safe space where they would feel protected from emotional discomfort; when Christakis refused to do so—reasoning that learning is sometimes uncomfortable—they demanded his resignation.The Yale incident happened in the fall 2015 semester. In retrospect, it almost looks like a high-water mark for the civil exchange of ideas.
..."If you look at these incidents over the last couple of years, we're seeing escalations, in my view," said Christakis.
Indeed, the escalation theory is getting harder and harder to deny.
...What's not obvious to Williams and Ceci, Christakis, Haidt, or any number of other defenders of classically liberal values, seems very obvious to a whole host of people who make excuses for the students..."
Lots here.
Read on!
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