Why are Fox News's victims so easily-grifted with respect...

Why are Fox News's victims so easily-grifted with respect to making them scared of liberal universities?: Jacob T. Levy: "I���ve made a lot of arguments in my life to people who didn���t want to hear them. I argued about sodomy laws and Bowers vs Hardwick with my grandmother when I was 15...

...Drug legalization, open borders, rejection of ideal theory, rejection of methodological individualism, &c &c. I���ve defended Black Lives Matter and attacked white supremacy in front of post-2016 mostly-GOP audiences. I don���t think there���s anything���anything���on which I���ve gotten so much disbelief-that-becomes-near-anger as when I contradict the post-2014 Fox narrative about campus life.

���You���re a university professor? How interesting! How brave you must be! Do the terrible students attack you like they do that nice young Milo?��� ���No, it���s not at all like that. Not even a little. Here are some numbers, here���s some evidence, here���s how availability bias works...��� This REALLY SERIOUSLY bothers people. Like, I can see them trying to be restrained and civil with me even though as far as they���re concerned I���ve just emptied my bowels on the floor or something.

It happens when I write, too��� my Chronicle essay about free speech on campus got angrier feedback (and from off-campus people even though the Chronicle has a mostly on-campus audience) than my LAT op-ed describing Trump as a moral nihilist. It���s worrisome...

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