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Originally Posted by rubecube
To quote Corsi, the right has created its kind of own Streisand Effect with how they caricatured progressives on college campuses. The number of instances of ridiculous progressive behaviour and their actual influence had been pretty minimal, but the way in which the right has openly publicized, embellished, and misrepresented these events, along with how they've trivialized some of the more valid arguments by college leftists, has kind of opened Pandora's box.
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I think there's an extent to which this is the case, but this stuff was already happening more and more at an alarmingly fast rate, if you listen to people like Greg Lukianoff talk about it - and he was paying close attention long before anyone else; it being his job.
I think you're right that in many cases these events have been made to seem more prevalent than they were, but their momentum isn't the result of publicizing them. Kids weren't reading Popehat blogs about people spitting on attendees of conservative talks and thinking "that seems like a good idea, let's do that here too". The ball was already on its way down the hill, and the only thing that was ever going to stop it was the adults - faculty, administration, university executive - standing up and saying "no, we will not give in to your childish demands. Go to class." Some started doing just that within a few months of the whole Yale debacle.