José Cabranes: The Present Danger at our Leading Universities: What is to be Don [17:56-18:56]
disconnected maladies of today's university appear plainly as products of a single affliction. Consider the proliferation of trigger warnings. What are these if not the actualization of the notion that ideas can be violence, or consider the ubiquitous appeals to the authority of identity and lived experience? I refer, of course, to the classroom comment or the essay that begins as follows. As a Puerto Rican, I'm allowed to say that because I am Puerto Rican. As a Puerto Rican, and declares that I know things that you cannot possibly know, that I understand things that you cannot possibly understand, and therefore that I must be agreed with. I am, after all, the leading authority on me.
{# E23 (Nick, ruling section 1 answer 10): quoting a bill or a court opinion works
the way quoting a news article works. Select a passage above and the same panel
opens: the passage goes to the official you choose, with this document's own
address as its source and its own type. #}