It also means all those who recklessly participate in the search-and-destroy missions of the call-out culture. They are the Middlebury students who in 2017 violently assaulted professor Allison Stanger for the crime of moderating a talk with Charles Murray. Careers and reputations built over decades come to ruin, or nearly so, on account of a personal mistake or a disfavored opinion. It’s also easy because the grown-ups rarely push back and, in fact, are often happy to go along. Another way of putting all that is that he’s mature, unstudied, and not just another partisan hater.

Source: New York Times May 18, 2019 00:51 UTC