Douglas Campbell, a lecturer at California State University at Chico, gives a striking and somber firsthand account of the breakdown of reason and elevation of emotivism on campuses. He writes:

[We should resist professors who] discourage, if not outright punish, those who wish to express ideas and opinions that diverge from the politics or propaganda of the mandarins of political correctness. Today, all too often rational thinking is opposed as dangerous, and the mission of the academic has been reduced to advocating specific cultural, social, and political paradigms. All this and more has been done in the cause of the greater good by people who do not think that other people can determine what is good for themselves.