Students Call for Police to Censor Classmates' Political Messages

Students Call for Police to Censor Classmates' Political Messages
The University of Michigan is one of our nation’s premier institutions of higher learning.
Young people from all over the country move to Ann Arbor every year to obtain an education and to have their ideas challenged by exposure to fellow students from many walks of life.
Or maybe not.
Last Thursday afternoon, a number of anonymous chalk messages appeared on campus.
But because these innocuous chalk messages read “#StopIslam” and “Trump 2016,” they elicited 911 calls and an apology from the president of the university.
...Apparently such statements constitute “hate speech.”
Nowhere in America is the urge to censor and intimidate dissenting opinion more apparent than on college campuses, where students are treated to “safe spaces” from dissenting opinion and where even mentioning controversial topics will “trigger” feelings of insecurity by the unique snowflakes that are our college students.
Apparently pro-Trump chalkings by students have occurred now on several campuses, and the overreaction by politically correct college administrations has elicited a hashtag for this phenomenon: the #Chalkening.
It started on the campus of Emory University in Georgia, when chalk messages appeared and a number of students complained that the messages constituted anti-minority targeting and made them feel “unsafe.”
The president of the university, James Wagner, vowed to investigate the messages before realizing that the messages constituted free expression..."