Rex Murphy, NP: You hear it when any real designated-as-politically-correct issue has escaped from the closed-thought cloisters of university safe-spaces and univocal “studies” programs. Having escaped from these sealed chambers of prescribed thinking and speech, and entered into open debate, into actual discussion and contest, a defensive reaction sets in. Ideas that were before off-limits, ruled beyond debate, declared the only right way to speak and think — once under challenge, very often even ridiculed and mocked, are suddenly reframed by their former jailers as candidates for a “conversation.” It’s only when progressives lose control of an issue that they agree to even have it discussed. This is then called a conversation.
“We need to have a conversation” is the white flag of the politically correct brigade.
And now, a year or so after the brutalizing of the young teaching assistant, Laurier’s president issues a feeble squeak calling for protection of “the humanity of students, faculty and staff” and proposing “better speech” as a presumed antidote to free speech. Areopagitica the piece was not. Milton weeps.
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