Nicolle Riley
Columbia Daily Spectator
At Columbia, the cost of disagreement is high, and most of us would rather not pay it.
The longer I spend within the Columbia gates, its celebrated commitment to open discourse begins to look like a carefully maintained illusion. When confronted with an opposing opinion, we are quick to presume what its author must stand for, which political camp they belong to, and whether they even deserve to be heard. For a student body so righteously devoted to questioning authority, we are exceptionally protective of our own.
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