At a recent University of Pittsburgh program, the speaker, Milo Yiannopoulos, technology editor for the conservative website Brietbart.com, referred to (1) those who believe in the gender wage gap as “idiots,” (2) the Black Lives Matter movement as a “supremacist” group, and (3) feminists as “man-haters.” Reports are silent as to whether anyone walked out or felt individually threatened. But an uproar ensued shortly thereafter during which individual students claimed feeling “unsafe,” “invalidated,” and even “traumatized.” They saw themselves not only in psychological but in “physical danger” from “real violence.” The organizer defended himself only by invoking free speech and the trigger warning he had included in the flyer advertising the event.1
To forestall this kind of drama and purportedly to give minority students a greater voice, many universities are mandating diversity training on their campuses. The University of
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