The threat from within
No matter how much a university in 2017 might laud free speech, that university is not going to invite a speaker who openly advocates for genocide.<p>When you accept this, you accept that &quot;censorship&quot; is unavoidable.  Some ideas will not be given a platform because of that platform&#x27;s perceived (correctly or not) distance from the mainstream.  There is no society that has ever existed where this is not the case.<p>So the question is: which views should be denied a platform?<p>Obviously there&#x27;s no perfect way to answer this question, but it seems to me that the solution to this problem isn&#x27;t as difficult as this essay claims.  I think that, quite clearly, the criteria that define acceptable speech on a college campus need to change.  Specifically, those criteria must expand.  Dissenting views need to be given a platform, even if they make some students uncomfortable.