That’s correct. I didn’t think that it was especially likely that anything would happen, but I didn’t want to take the chance.

The general rule of political/religious repression (New Leftism operates like a religion, in large part because it is a religion — literally, as in it’s a direct descendant of New England protestantism — just mutated to leave God behind) is to have a low probability of serious consequences. It creates fear effectively by “making an example” out of its unlucky victims, but it also allows people to deny repression is happening, e.g. “see, all these people weren’t punished for their views”.

And the environment I see around me is degenerating badly. My university put up banners on the lampposts advertising a project of a particular laboratory (one of those glitzy-but-worthless labs that start projects by asking what looks good in a press release), which featured photos of students at that Women’s March thing with their idiotic pink knitted caps. It used to be that the university was a stronghold of New Left thought (and thought-control) but maintained an official neutrality. Now even the pretense of neutrality is gone.

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