F. Roger Devlin: 'You Can’t Say That Here!' Review of Greg Lukianoff 'Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate' - Universities consider trivial things to be “harassment:” “stereotypic generalizations,” “words that interfere with another person’s comfort,” “expressions deemed inappropriate,” “jokes that demean a victim’s culture or history,” “inappropriate gender-based activities, comments or gestures,” and “use of generic masculine terms to refer to people of both sexes.”

You Can’t Say That Here!

The campaign against free speech on campus.

Greg Lukianoff, Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate, Encounter Books, 2013, 294 pp., $25.99.

In 1998, Prof. Alan Charles Kors and lawyer Harvey A. Silvergate published an exposé of violations of free speech on college campuses. The Shadow University was a best seller, and readers responded with so many horror stories and pleas for help that the authors established the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) in order to protect free speech.

In 2001, Greg Lukianoff was appointed the organization’s director of legal and public advocacy, and he became the president in 2006. Unlearning Liberty is his account of 11 years with FIRE, during which he reviewed thousands of cases of campus censorship and represented hundreds of students and faculty. . . .

http://www.amren.com/features/2014/01/you-cant-say-that-here/