What should he have to go through?

"It was no wonder he’d become frustrated trying to exist in media sound bites. Who among us can keep a message on fire in 30-second bursts — for good or bad — before having to lie down in the straw, exhausted, demoralized or forgotten?"

A college professor had a student in his class who was a leader in a movement with which the professor disagreed. Nevertheless, the professor was "one of the only ones who treated me (the student) as a human being." The professor had learned to respect the student as a person of integrity and diligence, while the student was undergoing hateful oppression by the politically correct crowd.

“I’m sorry,” I said to him. “You shouldn’t have to go through that.”

What should he have to go through? I still had no idea.

Read more about the student and professor here.

Thanks to Conor Friedersdorf for linking to this article.