Perspective: Progressive college students thought they had the upper hand in our culture. They lost it this week (Deseret News)

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    Perspective: Progressive college students thought they had the upper hand in our culture. They lost it this week – By Jennifer Graham (Deseret News) / Oct 19, 2023

    A powder keg of tension exploded on college campuses after the Hamas attack. Doxxing and blacklisting is not the proper response

    Just like it’s hard to feel sorry for the tanking New England Patriots, it’s hard to feel sorry for Harvard students under fire.

    Like professional football players who are paid eye-popping salaries to work out regularly and play a game, students at Harvard and other elite schools are widely regarded as the crème de la crème of their generation, poised for social and professional success on a track that seems to have been greased for them, if only by their own hard work.

    But watching the doxxing of young people over their statements of support for Hamas is unsettling after the all-too-human sense of schadenfreude passes. It feels like some tenuous thread of cancel culture has snapped, plunging us all into darker territory.

    CONTINUE > https://www.deseret.com/2023/10/19/23923834/hamas-attack-israel-harvard-doxxing-lawrence-summers

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