“Hundreds of
students crammed into Amherst College’s Robert Frost
Library for a sit-in against racial injustice that turned into a confessional,
as one black or Hispanic student after another rose to talk about feelings of
alienation and invisibility on campus. . . .[Among their demands]
They wanted
students who had posted “Free Speech” and “All Lives Matter” posters to go
through “extensive training for racial and cultural competency” and possibly
discipline.”
Although Amherst
is a private college and the First Amendment doesn’t apply to them, one would
think education and academic freedom would suggest more tolerance. Tolerance and free speech are under attack from both the left and right. This is very disturbing, and does not bode well.
For more on this general topic see Jack Cashill's book Scarlet Letters: The Ever-increasing Intolerance of the Cult of Liberalism.
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