> Adults don't need institutions to protect them from name calling and hurtful words. Children do. That's a remarkably naive way of looking at the history of h

> Adults don't need institutions to protect them from name calling and hurtful words. Children do. That's a remarkably naive way of looking at the history of hate speech and hateful rhetoric both in the United States and globally. (I'm not saying what happened at Yale approaches hate speech, but the idea that "words can't hurt you, and if they do you're just a child" is, well, pretty child-like in its understanding of social forces.)