From the article: "Rather than teaching students how to rationally argue, our schools (and not just colleges) are teaching that dissenters can and should be silenced."
On some threads, I have been called a "dissenter," as a "disruptor," and told to "rot in hell." [ verbatim ] I have been called a "Commie," not for anything other than disagreeing with a few on a thread, all the while agreeing with others. Yup. There are examples rather close to home.
What you have cited are boycotts. That’s passive effort, yes. You cannot seriously believe that there’s any moral equivalency between the concerted, aggressive cancellations the Lefties are practicing these days, and the mere exercising of personal preferences you’ve cited on the right.
On FR (not society at large), perhaps there’s an assumption that we agree on the core principles of the Constitution and the founding. So on FR, when there are people who disagree (within that microcosm), name-calling rears its head. I, too, a appalled by this. We should contend w/o being so contentious. Hey, it’s a new year. Maybe... we can try to remember we’re on the same team.
I actually got banned from a discussion group for giving one link.
It was the official Washington DC police web site.
(You see, they identify specific neighborhoods/blocks/streets/addresses/dates/times where crimes occur.)
There is nothing more dangerous that basic factual information.