'Maybe This Is the Real Ferguson Effect,' Cont'd
More context on Mizzou/Tai standoff: xtra footage from @Schierbecker 1stAmnd right to protest+1stAmnd rt to report https://t.co/knPHNKA6c1
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) November 10, 2015
Many more readers are emailing their reactions to the tense situation at the University of Missouri. This reader doesn’t mince words:
The student activists have no concept of free debate, intellectual stimulation, or respect for differing perspectives. They, their parents, teachers, and mentors should be ashamed at their behavior. No matter how valid or invalid you think their message is, their tactics are disreputable and childish.
Another reader is more considered in his criticism:
I read “The Coddling of the American Mind” a while back, and the outrage of various microaggressions propping up around American campuses strike me as a pretty straightforward result of general breakdown in civil American discourse. As the students themselves admit, what they are looking for in college is not actually intellectual examination, but identity and community.