This does seem more like a personal spat rather than an actual intellectual argument. The title itself is absurd given the content.
Furthermore, I love how she left out any details of the speech that the student was protesting (like that she was making fun of students and wearing a sombrero to make the point)
I think this opinion piece makes a good point, but the author missed a chance to show how the online world is also affected. I think this is relevant to HN and the technology community because we will (and in many cases already are) have to grapple with online speech, online censorship, online safe spaces.
> Among milliennials and those coming of age behind them, the race is on to see who can be more righteous and aggrieved — who can replace the boring old civil rights generation with a spikier brand.
> When I was growing up in the ’60s and early ’70s, conservatives were the enforcers of conformity.
This article just sounds like every other time someone complains about the generation that came after them. I'm sure to her, the conservatives seemed like the ones enforcing conformity in the 60's and 70's, but the view on the right at the time was the left was the one enforcing conformity.
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[ 9.7 ms ] story [ 27.1 ms ] threadFurthermore, I love how she left out any details of the speech that the student was protesting (like that she was making fun of students and wearing a sombrero to make the point)
> When I was growing up in the ’60s and early ’70s, conservatives were the enforcers of conformity.
This article just sounds like every other time someone complains about the generation that came after them. I'm sure to her, the conservatives seemed like the ones enforcing conformity in the 60's and 70's, but the view on the right at the time was the left was the one enforcing conformity.