In the final part of this series, Westin (he/they) and Easton (she/her) close out recent Twitter main character Emma Camp's New York Times op-ed and the larger implications of the article.

In this episode, we finally reach and analyze her incoherent demands and interrogate whether they have anything to do with UVA and the rest of her essay. It's also time for the act 4 reveal of the biggest piece of unspoken context.

Threads include: safe spaces, misconceptions about exposure therapy dogma, canceling speakers on college campuses, what demands are really unreasonable, conservatives needing conversational participation trophies, the reality of campus speech codes and bias response policies, pathologizing conflict mediation, the narrow pendulum of mainstream political discourse, campus power dynamics, false binaries, actual authoritarianism, The New York Times as a clickbait mill farming outrage to sell ads, others getting in on the grift, and the history of white supremacist reaction in the USA.

We also rant about ableism and spam calls.

Content warning for descriptions of real-world white supremacist, anti-Semitic, and transphobic violence and the institutional violence of policing, jails, and prisons. We try not to get too graphic.

LINKS:

Emma Camp's main 2022 NYT op-ed: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/opinion/campus-speech-cancel-culture.html

Greg Lukianoff’s op-ed:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/

Emma Camp interview on the Bad Faith podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHT--elNYlc

NYT Editorial Board Response op-ed:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/opinion/cancel-culture-free-speech-poll.html

Breakdown of the NYT Editorial Board op-ed:

https://twitter.com/tzimmer_history/status/1504852619210207232

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