After Charlie Kirk’s murder, many were shocked to see people celebrate killing someone for mainstream conservative views. I’m not. As a professor, I saw the ideology that taught “disagreement = harm” take over higher ed. This is the endgame of that lesson. 🧵
In this campus culture, to even question the ideology is to cause harm. That belief fueled extreme reactions to speech. Administration and students relentlessly harassed me for holding mainstream liberal positions until I resigned. 2 https://x.com/i/status/1150377...
A society that equates argument with injury will normalize violence toward opinion. What's worse, the ideology that seeded this holds radical views far outside the values of middle America. 3
What results is ordinary political discourse, like Charlie’s, on family, immigration, gender, or abortion, is recast as a violent violation. For decades, universities wove this ethos into American life. That’s why we’re here. And yes, the left started it. 4
If you want receipts, seek out the work of my friend @mikenayna, especially his film The Reformers. It documents this problem better than anything else I’ve seen. 5
@peterboghossian he was a mean-spirited bro in the style of Rush
@peterboghossian Sounds like a cult of violent (and stupid) lunatics
@peterboghossian I'm a violent violator too then. My book takes the roots of ADHD back to the sexual revolution where we devalued relationships to the point we've normalised family breakdown. There is no such thing as a genetic disorder that predominantly affects impoverished people. There is
@peterboghossian You don't need to define opinion to be violence to murder those you disagree with. The right has been doing that forever. It's impossible and silly to say who started it.