"No One Should Have to Pass Someone Else's Ideological Purity Test to Be Allowed to Speak"

"The right to speak freely is not the same as the right to rob others of their voices.

"Understanding this argument requires an ability to detect and follow nuance, but nuance has largely been dismissed from the debates about speech raging on college campuses. Absolutist postures and the binary reign supreme. You are pro- or anti-, radical or fascist, angel or demon. Even small differences of opinion are seized on and characterized as moral and intellectual failures, unacceptable thought crimes that cancel out anything else you might say."

Lucía Martnez Valdivia at Tulsa World criticizes student protestors at Reed College.