Proving his point

The NY Times reports:

Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and author, has been on the front lines of campus battles over free speech for more than a decade, warning that the American education system has poorly served a generation of young people by cocooning them from ideas they might find distressing.

Now, he finds himself in a free-speech squall at his own university.

Student government leaders at New York University are objecting to his selection as the graduation speaker at Yankee Stadium — calling it “deeply unsettling” — and in a letter, asked university officials to reconsider before the ceremony on Thursday.

This is almost before irony. Haidt writes that it is a problem that young people are cocooned from ideas they may find distressing. Then a group of students object to him being a graduation speaker because his views are “deeply unsettling”.

This is beyond parody.