On PJ Media, Roger Simon compares the protests on college campuses to thought control in Mao Zedung’s China.
Some people ridicule these students as “snowflakes” unable to stand up to the slightest discomfiting words or images. But it is far worse than that. These so-called “snowflakes” are the potential shock troops of the aforementioned Red Guard, American style. There is a fine line between the extreme entitlement that demands to be warned before reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses (as happened recently at Columbia) and a kind of narcissistic rage acting out against any presumed enemy in its path.
And, in my opinion, there’s also a whiff of the Soviet purge trials in the apologetic tone of those who are brought down by that rage.