Last decade, when student protests flared up at places like the University of Missouri and censorious students at places like Michigan and Middlebury shouted down and mobbed speakers they disagreed with, it was common for critics to shake their heads and say wait until they get into the real world.
We have since learned that the joke was on us. The humorless censors took over newsrooms and got their bosses fired for running op-eds they disliked — all while claiming these “bad” opinions endangered them. The little Javerts moved into the workforce and became orthodoxy police in HR departments and in academia.
The screaming mobs reached critical mass in corporate America and weaponized their angry intolerance on social media.
Nobody should be so sanguine in 2024.
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