A data analyst for a progressive analytics firm tweets out a research paper on the political effects of different kinds of protests in the 1960s. He is attacked for being "tone deaf," some colleagues say his tweet threatens their safety, and he is fired. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
"The norm of suppressing a belief because somebody saying it makes them or others unsafe has left a trail of absurd or horrifying episodes in academia and elsewhere that many progressives insisted didn’t matter because It Wouldn’t Happen Here. And yet..."
"...as this norm spreads, its central flaw has never been resolved: Any definition of 'unsafe' that aims for a Tom Cotton will hit a David Shor or a Lee Fang."
