Why My NYT Article Inspired So Much Fury
Persuasion | Emma Camp
UVA’s Emma Camp ‘22 responds after the heated response to her March NYT piece on self-censorship. “The vicious rage in reaction to the article is telling. It shows, with biting efficacy, what happens when you don’t self-censor. If there was no real problem of illiberalism on college campuses, or our broader culture for that matter, then thousands of people wouldn’t have clamored to decry a college student as everything from a whiny child to a white nationalist. If there was no real problem, then my article wouldn’t have registered as that much of a threat.”
In a 3/9/22 Twitter post, Greg Lukianoff (CEO, FIRE) tweeted: “Former @TheFIREorg intern @emmma_camp published a terrific essay in @nytimes about the stifling climate on college campuses. As if to prove her point, her piece was met with outrage & denial in a predictable culture war pattern.” He goes on to document the outrage.
