&gt; Adults don&#x27;t need institutions to protect them from name calling and hurtful words. Children do.<p>That&#x27;s a remarkably naive way of looking at the history of hate speech and hateful rhetoric both in the United States and globally.<p>(I&#x27;m not saying what happened at Yale approaches hate speech, but the idea that &quot;words can&#x27;t hurt you, and if they do you&#x27;re just a child&quot; is, well, pretty child-like in its understanding of social forces.)