It's time for us to outgrow diapers

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'Trigger warning: This column will include discussion of ideas that may conflict with your own.

Those accustomed to reading or listening only to liberal commentators may not be aware of "trigger warnings" and "safe zones" on college campuses.

It seems that mostly conservative sites and writers are concerned with the increasingly draconian suppression of free speech on college campuses. But then, it is mostly conservative writers and speakers who are treated as though they're bringing the Ebola virus rather than contrarian ideas to the sensitive ears of what we may as well name the "Swaddled Generation."

A trigger warning is usually conveyed on a sign carried or posted near the auditorium where a speech is to be given, alerting students to the possibility that the speaker may express an idea that could trigger an emotional response. A discussion about campus rape statistics, for example, might cause a rape victim to suffer.
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Praising Chicago's example, Purdue President Mitch Daniels laid out the stakes in a telephone interview: "If universities want to embarrass themselves with their behavior, allowing people to be shouted down or disinvited, that's their problem. But if they're spawning a bunch of little authoritarians with an inverted view of our basic freedoms, that's everybody's problem."

Let's hope other colleges and universities follow suit -- and soon. Otherwise, someone will be forced to write the obvious next book, "Dictators in Diapers." Would that it were instead: "The Unswaddling: How Universities Fought Back to Restore Free Speech."'

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