Unpopular opinion: PC policing is going WAY TOO far.

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18. That's hardly an "unpopular opinion." Also, I don't think we can really know enough to judge, based

on the videos alone.

In the first video, the photographer certainly has the right to take pictures. The protester who says he is not allowed to take their picture is not correct, since generally speaking people in public don't have a right to not have their picture taken. But I don't know whether the photographer is right in his claim to that particular space. I have a right to take pictures of public spaces, but I don't have the right to go up to anyone i want to, just because they are in a public space, and stand chest to chest, block their path, etc.

"It is not about creating an intellectual space, it is about creating a home here!" No sorry, it's about creating an intellectual space, that's what university is about, going out of your comfort zone and growing as a person.

The space in question is a residence, so it actually is, at least in part, about creating a home. That's where they live. And the man in question is not acting in his role as professor, but in his role as Master of that residential college.

The administration of the university sent out an email suggesting students be sensitive in their halloween costumes. The associate master of Silliman (and the partner of the man in the video) sent out an email in response questioning whether it's the role of administrators to encourage/control sensitivity. Some of the students in Silliman found the decision to send that email frustrating, and voiced their frustrations. They, too, were exercising their freedom of speech. Yay, freedom of speech!

The students are protesting because they are offended by an exercise of free speech. The many critics of the students, too, are reacting in offense to an exercise of free speech. People get offended by free speech all the time. They react by saying "a master of our residential college shouldn't be using speech for that purpose" or "students on campus shouldn't be using speech for that purpose."

On edit: I think this WaPo column provides some interesting and useful texture to the situation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/09/a-clash-between-administrators-and-students-at-yale-went-viral-why-that-is-unfortunate-for-all-concerned/