I don't buy this piece's claim that the American left follows a "culture of critical discourse": There is a disturbing trend in the modern American left of sup

I don't buy this piece's claim that the American left follows a "culture of critical discourse": There is a disturbing trend in the modern American left of suppressing and punishing people whose opinions do not confirm to the liberal consensus. Free speech law blog Popehat is a good source of concrete examples [1] [2] [3] [4]. I recently saw an article here on HN which did an excellent job of expressing this concern [5]. Sadly it didn't get very many upvotes. [1] https://popehat.com/2015/12/08/no-safe-spaces-for-conservatives/ https://popehat.com/2015/12/08/no-safe-spaces-for-conservati... [2] https://popehat.com/2016/04/22/how-inanely-censorious-can-college-administrators-get-university-of-wisconsin-superior-will-show-you/ https://popehat.com/2016/04/22/how-inanely-censorious-can-co... [3] https://popehat.com/2015/09/23/lets-applaud-wesleyans-student-censors-for-honesty/ https://popehat.com/2015/09/23/lets-applaud-wesleyans-studen... [4] https://popehat.com/2015/09/14/a-market-solution-to-academic-snowflakes/ https://popehat.com/2015/09/14/a-market-solution-to-academic... [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11545169 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11545169