Commentary: College students were ‘woke’ in the 60s, annoying to elders and drivers of social change. Meet their successors
by Michael S. Roth, Los Angeles Times
Sep 14, 2023
3 minutes
What would it be this time, I wondered, as the protesting students rushed into my office a few years ago at Wesleyan University. More trigger warnings or calls to cancel a speaker?
I’ve been well aware that students are accused of enforcing political conformity with social ostracism while avoiding hard questions about their own (progressive) pieties. Conservatives have for decades complained about protests and student demands, but today even liberals join in, unhappy to have found themselves the targets of student objections to the language they use, or their blindness to their
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