Argue with dangerous speech instead of banning it | Blaze Media

Argue with dangerous speech instead of banning it | Blaze Media: 

For 20 years, American colleges have been driven toward ruin by the cultural cancer of “safetyism” and “crybullying.” Famously, Harvard Law School professor Jeannie Suk Gersen wrote an essay for the New Yorker about her bruising institutional fight to teach students in criminal law classes about the laws governing sexual offenses. She was, students explained, hurting them. They went to the dean because they felt unsafe. Saying “rape” in class was violence. Professors who teach rape law are mean.

“One teacher I know was recently asked by a student not to use the word ‘violate’ in class — as in ‘Does this conduct violate the law?’ — because the word was triggering,” she wrote. “Some students have even suggested that rape law should not be taught because of its potential to cause distress.”