Debate or Denunciation?

Debate, or denunciation? Which do you prefer? Thomas Sowell thinks the trend is in the direction of the latter. Do you check out the facts on both sides of an issue? Or, have you been indoctrinated by your educational institution to believe that the facts are all on one side? Sowell writes,

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas. One sign of this sense of moral monopoly among the left intelligentsia is that the institutions most under their control — the schools, colleges and universities — have far less freedom of speech than the rest of American society.

While advocacy of homosexuality, for example, is common on college campuses, and listening to this advocacy is often obligatory during freshman orientation, criticism of homosexuality is called “hate speech” that is subject to punishment.

While spokesmen for various racial or ethnic groups are free to vehemently denounce whites as a group for their past or present sins, real or otherwise, any white student who similarly denounces the sins or shortcomings of non-white groups can be virtually guaranteed to be punished, if not expelled.