Please take some time to watch the video that precedes this paragraph. It shows in full display the experience of students and faculty in current US campuses.
"Safe zones", "political correctness" and historical revisionism defeat the purpose of higher education.
The "higher" in "higher education" stands for the respect for free-thinking regardless of its direction and content. Higher education is about learning how to think, not about learning what to think.
Under the guise of "safe zones", "critical thinking" and "social justice" extremist and intolerant minorities regularly impose their views, suppress dissent, and -more dangerously- use peer pressure, student debt, and faculty job stability to blackmail and coerce into silence.
Philosopher and Portland State professor Peter Boghossian has found an interesting way to fight back. It consists of letting students speak out and communicating their views through the same social media used to bully dissenters.
It seems a promising way to restore the "higher" purpose and spirit in higher education.
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