I find myself reading more stories in the Washington Post these days than in the New York Times (and far more than in the Los Angeles Times).
Washington Post: Racist messages were written alongside campaign slogans for presidential candidate Donald Trump on sidewalks at the University of California at San Diego, as a wave of pro-Trump chalk messages has been spreading on campuses across the country.
After some students at Emory University said they felt unsafe when they saw Trump’s name chalked all over campus, an outcry erupted over whether Trump’s remarks about illegal immigrants, Muslims and other groups make support for him offensive, or whether political correctness has gone so far on college campuses, in particular, that even political speech is endangered and a candidate’s very name can be off-limits.
While some students have countered speech with speech, writing slogans for other candidates and ideas, a backlash against the idea of sheltered, too-easily-offended liberal students is spreading on social media, with Trump supporters and some free-speech advocates urging “chalkening” college campuses.
It’s not just about Trump: The tensions over free speech have boiled over at many colleges this past year, as student protests over race and bias issues in places such as Yale and the University of Missouri have led to heated debates about the First Amendment and what crosses the line into hate speech.
