Such movements have ben very effective at attracting the "me first!" crowd. I have been accused right here of being racist for citing Bureau of Justice statistics on crime!

Not only is it better to have more speech to deal with speech you don't like; how, on earth, can these "academic" types truly understand what the other side has to say if they never give them the chance?

I disagree with him about the roots of this behavior. It does start with leftwing radical professors railing on corporate America and telling these kids they have no voice. It is compounded by the MSM which tells them that all alternative news sites are liar a, racists and bigots. These kids are only doing what they have been taught to do. These kids are the product of a steady stream of liberal, lefty, thought control that started in kindergarten and continues into today. I, for one, am not surprised.

A decent article by a left wing site. One aspect is incorrect: totalitarianism is always left wing: Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Franco, Pinochet were on the left, that is they promoted the state over the individual, the individual serves the state. The opposite of this is right wing: the individual over the state, the state serves the individual. Right wing extremists are the anarchists who do not believe in any state power. Of course, no state power exists for only a fraction of time, being taken over by a "strong leader". Democracy is still left wing, as the majority gets to rule however they want. A republic is in the middle, as the majority's power is curtailed by laws.

Brown University is apparently filled with ideologues who cannot think except to impose censorship. At $40,000/annually, I would not send my child there.

I think the younger you are the more convinced you are that only you see the injustices of the world. You become emotionally invested in your viewpoint and cannot conceive that anyone holding a view counter to yours can be a decent human being.

Any and all means of expressing one's point of view become legitimate forms of expression, even (or especially) violence - since the other party's viewpoint is illegitimate.

It's that zealotry that fueled the civil rights movement that's fueling the environmentalist movement and many other "progressive" movements.

As one matures, one realizes there are other positions held by well-meaning people that run counter to one's own - and that some of them have legitimate viewpoints. One becomes aware of the dangers of single-minded fanaticism.

The problem is that not all politically-motivated people mature.

As one student told me, "Right or wrong, we all stick together." They planned ahead and went together to a presentation with their "stick together minds" made up.
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Here's something for both sides of any issue to consider:

From G.K. Chesterton’s first book of essays, The Defendant (1901) from the chapter, “A Defence of Patriotism”:

“‘My country, right or wrong,’ is a thing that no patriot would think of saying. It is like saying, ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’”

I think the younger you are the more convinced you are that only you see the injustices of the world. You become emotionally invested in your viewpoint and cannot conceive that anyone holding a view counter to yours can be a decent human being.
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And another problem is, the younger you are, the harder it is to imagine that MANY people like yourself can behave in bad or foolish ways that you've never done - and that your friends have never done - so when you hear of such people, you naturally go into denial mode. For example, teen girls under a certain age might not have relationships with young men who treat them badly, so naturally such girls would get angry and defensive at the idea that lots of educated women (who happen to be only somewhat older) do in fact choose such men, consciously or not.

BTW, I had a similar experience when I was little - I read a short fictional story in which a shoe salesman says "women always do wear uncomfortable shoes." I got mad, thinking "I would never be so stupid; that has to be a lie. Why would MOST women do such a thing?"

Of course, I learned to use my eyes eventually, but I still never wear heels if I can help it - or anything I can't run long distances in, for that matter. Who wants to have deformed feet in one's old age - like a ballet dancer's, for example?

In case anyone isn't sure how to be outraged on the Internet, here is a handy primer.

http://thepessimist.com/2013/08/07/how-to-be-outraged-on-the-internet/

The left believes in free speech as long as they agree with it.

I don't know where Peter Beinart went to school, but at my university it was the faculty and administration that tolerated and sometimes endorsed these stunts while the majority of students rejected them. We had a small group of radical brats that would disrupt assemblies and vandalize school property. They wanted everything to be free in a world without gas,electricity, or meat where everyone was 'diverse' and bisexual, and until they got that they were going to throw a tantrum, and everyone had to watch.

Why don't you ask these morons why they prefer the conversations with the President or Iran?

Adults would listen to what the person has to say and respond
by asking informed questions. Shutting down the speaker accomplishes nothing.

Morons.

“‘My country, right or wrong,’ is a thing that no patriot would think of saying. It is like saying, ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’”

The original quote was a toast made in 1816 by US Navy officer Stephen Decatur at one of several banquets honoring his exploits against the Barbary Pirates. Decatur toasted, "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong."