If We Keep Telling Students That Wholly Free Speech Will Traumatize Them, They'll Probably Feel Traumatized (So Stop It)

Jesse Singal: "There's an intriguing area of behavioral science known as mind-set research, and one of its tenets is that the relationship between stress and humans' response to it is partially mediated by how people expect stress to affect them. ... If you tell students over and over and over that certain variants of free speech - variants which are ugly, but which are aired every moment of every day on talk radio - are traumatizing them, it really could do harm. And there's no reason to go dow