This is an important piece, and it is imperative that people keep speaking out about intolerance on college campuses and in the west. However, you must acknowledge one key difference between America and Russia, you would never have been able to speak your piece in Russia, much less at a comparably distinguished institution like Duke. As long as we have free speech there is hope that this will pass. The social justice warriors will not win. American democracy has often had paroxysms of intolerance, like the Red Scare after WWI and McCarthyism in the 1950s. Now it looks like the Reds are having a go. But as long as people like you can speak out, people will become fed up, and everyone will come to their senses and stop this nonsense. It is already beginning to happen.