This article is saying things that are obviously 180 degrees upside down from what most people are seeing going on around them, and it’s okay to do that, but if you’re going to be contrarian, then it’s incumbent upon you to provide some evidence, not simply to spout your opinion as if it’s the truth. There is not a single fact or statistic of any sort presented here, so the only logical conclusion is that the author is preaching to the converted. Especially off base, in this respect, is the final point that conservatives “react[] to being asked to consider something different” in a way that is “always the same: shut down conversation and lay stake to their own safe space.” Conservatives are not the ones trying to ban “offensive” books and speech on college campuses. They’re not the ones trying to shut up people who don’t agree with them. They’re not the ones getting in people’s faces and screaming at them and spitting at people who attend a free speech conference (I’m alluding to several incidents at Yale here, for instance). They’re not the ones staging riots when courts don’t produce the outcomes they want. They’re not the ones interrupting speakers, whether political candidates or others, with disruptive “black lives matter” chants that try to bully and intimidate people — even left-leaning candidates like Bernie Sanders — into silence. They’re not the ones staging aggressive protests to force institutions to fire or discipline various people with whose viewpoints they happen not to agree. Although there are some elements on the political right that have adopted similar tactics — trying to bowdlerize books that teach evolution, for instance — the P.C. movement is primarily driven a left-of-center agenda straight out of Orwell’s 1984, where the goal is to police speech and “cleanse” universities, corporations and even individuals of the freedom to think and speak how they see fit or to teach and read the classics of Western civilization.

And, in fact, in contrast to what Ms. Molloy has done in her article, I will not just say all this stuff and expect you take my word for it. If you don’t believe that the main people being bullied and silenced in our society right now are those perceived to be powerful — i.e., white heterosexual male Christians — and conservatives, then I suggest you read this article I posted on Medium a few days ago, which cites research showing precisely that, as well as connecting the crisis of cultural confidence here in America with that in Europe and explaining how that crisis needs to be addressed by refusing to apologize for the mistakes we made in the past: https:[email protected][email protected]-98eeea6b6151#.qh35y3btp