Over the past two weeks, as police have raided college campuses and arrested students, faculty, and other protesters from Columbia to UCLA to UT-Austin to Indiana University, and as counterprotesters at UCLA launched violent attacks on students, these real dangers to the safety of students have put the battles over language in a harsh light.
Students are being tear-gassed and fired upon with rubber bullets. Professors have been tackled and arrested... The scenes of dozens of armed cops in riot gear marching toward university buildings or rows of tents housing kaffiyeh-clad undergrads have been apocalyptic...
Well before the cops got involved, some of the progressive and far-left students protesting the war in Gaza found that the language of 'safety' was being used against them...
Right now, national attention is understandably on the actual violence at hand. But that violence, and all of the argument that preceded it, should be the beginning of a ser...
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