Speech codes, safe spaces, and intolerant demands for diversity, equity, and inclusion appear to be clumsy and misguided attempts to create an artificial civil environment; yet, social interaction seems less civil every day. If we were to follow Alexandra Hudson’s lead, many a speech code might be superfluous, and a great deal of partitioned safe space re-purposed to better use. It gets worse: critical race theorists and other neo-Marxists now tell us that the very standards of civility, like grammar rules, are cudgels to keep an entire underclass in its place.
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