Thirty years ago, college students could have tried out radical ideas about limiting free speech in print. This shift in the visibility of college students has changed the work my colleagues and I do as educators, too, and not for the better. Then the outraged calls and emails and tweets would pour in, demanding that the college disavow Deathburger values. But when it comes to college kids, my worry is that we’ve become unwilling to tolerate innocent mistakes — either that or we have drastically shrunk our vision of innocence. When I think back to those mistakes, I’m horrified and chastened.

Source: New York Times December 09, 2017 20:03 UTC