Across university campuses, particularly in the US but also in Britain, students claim the right to deny others free speech or to rewrite history that offends them – a complete denial of what universities should be all about. Censorship and assertions of sensitivity eviscerate scholarship and, with it, the very idea of a university where pluralism defines the meeting of minds.
伐异愈演愈烈，并且并不仅限于圣战者和宗教狂热分子统治的社会。在大学校园——特别是美国，英国也有——学生们主张否认其他人的言论自由的权利和重写冒犯他们的历史的权利——这完全与大学应有的价值观背道而驰。审查和敏感性主张（assertions of sensitivity）“阉割”了学术，也阉割了大学的意义——多元化带来思想的碰撞。