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"ecent interruptions of Christina Hoff Sommers at Lewis & Clark College (and reactions to Bari Weiss’s New York Times editorial about them), and the Atlantic’s quick hiring and firing of Kevin Williamson, have prompted yet another round...
... of reconsideration and recrimination concerning censorship on campus and in the media and the status of conservative thought. Some prominent young leftists have taken the following view: Conservatives are (almost) all odious trolls."
"The leftist caricature of the conservative commentator is not just ridiculous; it contains actually contradictory elements."
"Leftists and liberals believe they have a right to “mainstream” dominance — that top colleges and magazines are, justly or even by definition, left-wing spaces. At the same time, however, they balk at accusations...
..., which often come from precisely the figures they call “trolls,” that such spaces are politicized. The seeming contradiction between the spurious claim to journalistic or academic objectivity and the omnipresent mantra that “everything is political” is actually a synergy: ...
... Both of these strategies aim to protect left-wing spaces from the simple observation that they are left-wing spaces, with all the corollaries that an ordinary observer could draw from that."
"There’s no doubt that there is a conservative victimhood culture that mirrors the identity-based victimhood culture conservatives themselves decry."
