Have we lost touch with a fundamental premise of democracy? Our ideological opponents are not our enemies.
, the UC Davis professor whose manifestly uncivil anti-law-enforcement comments were met not with arguments for the value of civil and productive disagreement and against his preferred ad hominem tactics, but with a rally and petition to have him fired.
That inability is a function of an ideological monoculture in which any view that runs contrary to the prevailing moral code is seen as making people “unsafe;” that the mere presence on campus of people who hold “problematic” views is “harmful;” thatAn understanding of the value of sharp yet productive civil disagreement with ideological opponents is largely absent.
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