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Regarding Furman University President Elizabeth Davis\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>response<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(Letters, March 31) to my op-ed \u201cYou Can\u2019t Cancel Me, I Quit<\/a>\u201d (March 27): Of course there are civil, intellectually engaged students at Furman University\u2014and everywhere else. Just this week I taught a seminar by Zoom to members of the school\u2019s Tocqueville Program. They were upbeat, prepared and thoughtful. My op-ed wasn\u2019t about students like those, but the increasingly militant minority that menaces and humiliates invited guests, and whose doings are whitewashed or ignored by administrators.<\/p>\n President Davis invites me to learn \u201chow thoughtful our students are.\u201d Before my scheduled visit, posters advertising my talk were twice put up on campus, and twice torn down by activists. One that remained was defaced, the word \u201cFascist\u201d scrawled next to my face. (My grandparents fled fascism in Northern Italy.) In the student newspaper and elsewhere, I was called \u201cdangerous,\u201d \u201ca vicious transphobe,\u201d \u201chomophobic\u201d and other epithets. This isn\u2019t \u201chealthy dialogue\u201d but ad hominem smearing, all met with silence from anyone in authority.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n