# Political Correctness in our universities **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 25, 2018, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-correctness-in-our-universities/813108 "2018-04-25T15:58:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 26
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-correctness-in-our-universities/813108/26 "2018-04-26T00:36:49Z")
> [@Chisquirrel](#): > > You previously created a thread to subtly attack students who disagreed with a professor and exercised their free speech rights, yet didn’t feel the need to defend this other professor? > > I wonder what could be different… The students in my thread went a bit beyond just ‘disagreeing’ with the professor: > [@Is Evergreen State College the canary in the coal mine, foretelling the death of higher education?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-evergreen-state-college-the-canary-in-the-coal-mine-foretelling-the-death-of-higher-education/787914/1): > > … The police got called to escort him off campus (literally escort, as in protect from the protesters, not escort as in the typical remove-from-campus usage). Weinstein says the police told him to hold his classes off campus because the protesters were looking for him and they were concerned for his safety. … AFAIK, “this other professor” has not been credibly threatened with violence for her speech (but if she is, I condemn those threatening violence against someone for saying something disagreeable). Now do you understand the difference? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-correctness-in-our-universities/813108)._