As they say, the more things change, the more they stay the same, and it’s happening at good old Harvard, where sophomore Alex Bronzini-Vender, in a Times op-ed, bemoans his school’s new campus orthodoxy. … I have a suggestion: How about eliminating the freshmen sensitivity training sessions in general, left and right? …
A few other thoughts: 1.) Oh, now they’re citing the free-speech concerns expressed by FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), an organization that spent literally decades warning about the left’s relentless attacks on campus free-speech. Well, better late than never when it comes to embracing free-speech principles. 2.) The right’s imposition of a new campus orthodoxy is not worse than the previous left orthodoxy. At least not yet. But they’re trying. 3.) The right is definitely exhibiting classic mirror-image behavior here, i.e. complaining about lefty antics while adopting lefty antics. Or as a Harvard professor puts it in Bronzini-Vender’s Times op-ed, new conservative demands amount to “a tragic and very effective use of the previous decade’s standards around what we call ‘safe spaces’ and ‘wokeness.’”
