Today’s campus free speech codes aim to coddle students with ‘safe space’ in the name of protecting them with “trigger warnings.” They’re so onerous that, in his op-ed for American Thinker, Jan LaRue begins by mentioning that not even Jesus or Moses could crack the codes, “absent a miracle.”
The piece references incidents at Yale and Missouri, as well as “microaggressions,” in addition to these “trigger warnings.” LaRue also includes a piece from the Atlantic about these 1st Amendment violations and how it is “disastrous for education and mental health.”
What’s ironic is that these students believe speech codes help them, when they actually worsen their experiences in education and mental health — and certainly in the real world.
But the article’s most telling point is that students have become so sensitive they likely wouldn’t even stand for Jesus to come speak on campus.
LaRue points to several examples of why Jesus would be too controversial with the points he stood for. LaRue takes points from the Bible and applies them to today, for instance with:
- How Jesus wouldn’t support “Boycott, Divest, Sanction,” since he identifies with Israel
- The Book says the poor should work for welfare
- Global warming
- Anti-abortion and pro-death penalty
- Not tolerant and inclusive, and has “called people hurtful names”
- In favor of treating rich and poor equally rather than taking from 1 percent to redistribute
- “Transphobic and against same-sex marriage”
- Privatized health care
- Would anger PETA
- “He’s patriarchal and anti-feminist”
- Knows what the truth is, and claims to be that truth, as well as the way to God
Jesus may have millions and millions of followers, but if he were alive today, he would likely be held in low regard by the so-called tolerant and inclusive college students and professors.
