The ’60s Is Repeating Itself in Universities and Black Neighborhoods

nationalreview.com ^ | 11/17/2015 | Michael Barone

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But the rebellions that followed on multiple campuses for many years were transmogrified into many other things — banning military presence on campus, authorizing separate black organizations, firing administrators, and establishing racial quotas and preferences in admissions.

In the process campuses were transformed into leftist enclaves in the larger society, with “tenured radicals” reshaping faculty in their own image, black and Hispanic groups self-isolating into mono-racial cliques, and speech codes enacted to punish anyone who dissented from campus orthodoxy. Scholarship in many areas has been profoundly weakened and trivialized — a huge loss to society.

That’s the atmosphere highlighted in the violent and frenzied protests lately at the University of Missouri, Yale, and Claremont McKenna College. Protesters are demanding high-visibility denunciations of real or imagined racial slights and the creation of “safe spaces” for students desperate not to hear opinions other than their own. If this is as representative of generational attitudes as the baby boomers’ punch-card signs, we’re in for an even more polarized, less tolerant, and seriously infantilized future.

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