To the Editor:
Once upon a time in America (in Berkeley, to be precise) a Free Speech Movement brought students together to protest restrictions on political activities on the campus. Now, however, students at Amherst College demand that their classmates who advocate free speech should be remanded to “extensive training for racial and cultural competency.”
When did this core constitutional principle become not only divisive, but also identified with invidious discrimination? How is “free speech” now the enemy?
ELLEN D. MURPHY
Portland, Me.
Note from KBJ: It's really quite simple. Progressives are unprincipled. When they're out of power, as they were until recently in academia, they demand freedom of expression. When they're in power, as they are now in academia, they demand the suppression of freedom of expression. Progressives used to be totalitarians manqué. Now they're totalitarians simpliciter.
