The writer is correct. The very idea of restricting speech, deplatforming people, etc. is anathema to our basic values. You defeat bad ideas with good ideas. That, and blind justice and equality before the law. It is absolutely disgusting to me how certain racial groups are favored over others when it comes to enforcing the law. Everyone should be treated equally. If you violate the law, I don’t care what sex you are, what color, where your ancestors came from, or any other irrelevant factor - I only care that you get some kind of a consequence for violating the law. On the flipside, everyone should be protected equally from having their rights violated, regardless of all of those other irrelevant factors. This is pretty basic stuff, and that is disgusting beyond belief to me that we have gotten away from it (and, yes, I blame the Democrats for this - they have politicized every single aspect of life, and have done nothing but Pitt one group against another for the last several decades at least).
It happens that I am Jewish. I have been very fortunate in my lifetime to have experienced very little prejudice because of that fact. But I am very happy to not be attending an American university these days, because the Jewish students there most certainly are being treated badly simply because of their ethnic heritage. Mind you, it is not due to their religion, because many of these students are not at all interested in, or certainly they do not outwardly display their interest in, their religion. It is all about their ethnic heritage. This is no different than a black person being denied their rights simply because of their skin color. It is absolutely my opinion that we have had, at least until January 20 of this year, a spectacular failure in national leadership in this subject area. I am very happy to see the general change in attitude, as well as in enforcement, but I am aware that nothing in politics turns on a dime - it took decades (and three terms of Obama) to get to this sorry state of affairs, and it won’t be unwound in only four years.
However, Leftist advocates of censorship (and unfortunately, some on the Right as well, when it's their ox getting gored) want to push this to include any speech that hurts their feelings on the flimsy excuse that such speech "might" incite violence. Just about any political opinion directed against another factions could in theory incite violence in someone who is emotionally unstable, so by that logic, everything would have to be censored.