patrick.net

"The key point is that free speech can be abrogated only when someone will suffer real (not imagined) violence as a result. In the United States of America, you are free to scream racial epithets or float conspiracy theories until you’re blue in the face, but the moment you organize a mob, down comes the rough hand of the law. Land of the free, indeed (and then some)."

Correct. This is the American way.

"Only a minority of US millennials think it “essential” to live in a democracy, and 40 percent support having the government limit speech that offends minorities. By comparison, more than 70 percent of adults born in the 1930s think democracy is essential, and only 12 percent of adults 70 or over think free speech should be abridged to avoid offense"

Aaaaaand that's what happens when you let Cultural Marxists run amok in academia. It would be hyperbole to say that these are little Maoists in the making, but I think it is probably why one might be inclined to distrust millennials by default. And plug that ethos into the face-twit-reddit echo chamber machine and you have an on-demand groupthink mob.