Clarence Page: A college-level challenge: When free speech sounds like cyberbullying
A University of Chicago student who happens to be white objected to an undergraduate anthropology class titled “The Problem of Whiteness.” Daniel Schmidt, a sophomore who didn’t know the lecturer, was outraged — and he showed it in a tweet that happened to include the lecturer’s photo and email address. If you know anything about the bottomless hunger of online culture, it won’t surprise you ...
by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency
Jul 10, 2023
3 minutes
A University of Chicago student who happens to be white objected to an undergraduate anthropology class titled “The Problem of Whiteness.”
Daniel Schmidt, a sophomore who didn’t know the lecturer, was outraged — and he showed it in a tweet that happened to include the lecturer’s photo and email address.
If you know anything about the bottomless hunger of online culture, it won’t surprise you to hear that a storm of hate
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