We can’t go on promising everyone a pure feeling of belonging.
For the past decade or so, battles over campus “safety” have been fought on the grounds of language and expression: words said in class, readings assigned, art displayed, or speakers invited whom some group of students claimed made them unsafe, even in the absence of physical threats or recognizable danger.
These claims of feeling unsafe have proliferated on college campuses since Hamas launched a murderous attack against Israeli civilians, and especially after far too many leftist groups and individuals on campus and off responded by justifying terroristic acts and even. Once Israel launched its brutal war of reprisal and pro-Palestinian students responded with protests, the safety-related claims escalated.
It seems incredibly unfair, after decades of overreach and overprotection, to tell the Jewish students who feel hurt, alienated, or unwelcome by these protests, “Too bad.” And itunfair; it is currently imposing a larger burden on a minority group of students than has been imposed on many other marginalized groups in the past.
Universities have a legal and moral obligation to protect student safety, to prevent and penalize many forms of discrimination, and to ensure that all students can fully access the education to which they are entitled. Right now, too many schools are failing on these very basic measures.
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