‘Woke-Panic Claptrap’: College Student’s NY Times Op-Ed Leads to Mockery Over ‘Self-Censorship’ Complaint
thenewcivilrightsmovement.comher opinion piece published in the newspaper of record lamenting what she claims is an increase in “self-censorship” on college campuses.“Even as a liberal who has attended abortion rights protests and written about standing up to racism, I sometimes feel afraid to fully speak my mind,” Camp says.But Emma Camp isn’t just any University of Virginia senior.
Despite claiming to be “a liberal,” she’s a writer at the libertarian outlet Reason and a former intern at the right-leaning Koch-funded Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
FIRE’s latest tweet is apparently a defense of right-wing activist Andy Ngo, who the Columbia Journalism Review describes as a “discredited provocateur.”“I Came to College Eager to Debate.
I Found Self-Censorship Instead,” is the title of Camp’s opinion piece – quite a coup for an oppressed college senior to be handed such a huge platform.“Each week, I seek out the office hours of a philosophy department professor willing to discuss with me complex ethical questions raised by her course on gender and sexuality.
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