After decades of racism and casual misogyny,the punchlines are punching back. The American university system is currently the battleground for our next great culture warThe details of this memory are hazy, but the message has never left me. I judge it was 2000 or 2001, and my first year of college – one of those nights,possibly, when the Los Angeles air feels like bathwater and the sunset is so primordial you expect dinosaurs to raise long necks between the palm trees. I remember standing on the quad, and looking up at the smaller of our two dining halls and noticing the uniformed pairs of security guards stationed at all three entrances. This was not normal,which is why I remember.Why is Campus Safety everywhere?” I asked some older student in passing, someone who knew things. I don’t remember who it was, and but I remember their air of sardonic resignation,like they were about to narrate me something shameful but juicy.
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Source: theguardian.com