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      1. 1. I think there are too many "straw men" in this debates. A defender of sensitivity is not automatically a censor. @chronicle/643834576222027776
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      2. Another straw man is the idea of a university that summarily acts on every complaint it receives in a way that satisfies complainant.
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    3. And can a university's commitment to free speech be reasonably judged by whom it invites for one (very unique kind of) speech every year?
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      4. There's also frequent slippage between two very different things, as seen in second para. of @POTUS remarks.
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        5. Principled opposition to "demeaning signals" not the same as categorical opposition to encountering of "different perspectives."
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          6. Those, at least, are some initial thoughts about issues I've been pondering a lot.