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University of California, Irvine students stand in solidarity with the University of Missouri demonstrations, in Irvine, California, USA, 12 November 2015. Two University of Missouri officials recently stepped down after protests over alleged racist

‘These Are Tyrannical Students’: What a Former Harvard Professor Thinks of College Protests

By Heritage Foundation Kelsey Harkness——--November 23, 2015

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Watching student protests spread like wildfire across college campuses nationwide, a former Harvard Law School professor of 50 years is speaking out, warning that students are “moving to the absurd,” and faculty and administrators are doing nothing to stop it.
“It’s gotten to the point where it is so abused and so hypocritical, and yet nobody is concerned,” Alan Dershowitz told The Daily Signal in a phone interview. “After 50 years of teaching at Harvard, I have never met a less courageous group of people than tenured faculty.”
The last thing administrators or faculty want to do is get into fights with minority students, because then they’re perceived as being racists and sexists and homophobes, and these are epithets that are hard to respond to. So it’s much easier to go with the flow and be popular, particularly with the most vocal students.
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