2003 Rockford College, Christopher Hedges, at the very least, using a graduation speech to talk about the Iraq war and American empire: https://www.youtube.com

2003 Rockford College, Christopher Hedges, at the very least, using a graduation speech to talk about the Iraq war and American empire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAmkMndtH24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAmkMndtH24 And check out this article for an ironic inversion of politics in the short span of 12 years: http://www.alternet.org/story/15982/the_silencing_of_dissent_on_graduation_day http://www.alternet.org/story/15982/the_silencing_of_dissent... So you have people on the right were shocked and triggered, screaming at the speaker and pulling the power on his microphone, and people on the left demanded that hard truths must be spoken so suck it up. But I wonder if today he could do this speech without giving trigger warnings for colonialism and war. I wonder if a university would even give him the freedom up front to do a speech without vetting the topic so it couldn't surprise anyone. Is this a price we're willing to pay?