Let me change one word in your response:<p>&gt; Students don&#x27;t need &quot;protection&quot; from free speech, nor does anyone need to be rescued from the &quot;mockery&quot; and &quot;humiliation&quot; of an accusation of <i>communism</i>.<p>&gt; Demands for journalism-free &quot;safe spaces&quot; are bad, but so too is the idea that accusations of <i>communism</i> are so beyond the pale that people need to be shielded from them by institutions.<p>Or:<p>&gt; Demands for journalism-free &quot;safe spaces&quot; are bad, but so too is the idea that accusations of <i>witchcraft</i> are so beyond the pale that people need to be shielded from them by institutions.<p>Can you honestly be unaware that we live in a world where no one gets fired for being a <i>communist</i>, or a <i>witch</i>?  But...