Dan Henninger on Kirk’s Murder: The Universities Are a Source of This Problem, It Goes Back to Speech Codes

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HENNINGER: "I think the universities are a primary source of this a problem. It goes back to the beginning of speech codes which we are set up believe it or not like places like Harvard law school. The idea it was the certain phrases and ideas were simply too hurtful to people and so they should be stopped. That then morphed into conservatives showing up on campus to talk as Charlie Kirk did. And being run off campus these were extraordinary events. Crowds would come, shout people down Charles Murray the sociologist famously was driven off a stage at a school in new England. The intensities of those in protests became stronger and stronger. In fact the idea of protest is what became most common. You showed up, you shouted, you screamed and that was kind of an expression of violence as well. And then we came to the anti- Israel protest last year at Columbia and many other universities which got extremely violent. And so the escalation just kept getting higher and higher and higher and it should not be surprising we now find ourselves in an environment where real political violence is becoming more of the norm."