This language is not a contribution of the academic left, as Patai charges, and institutions must implement policies and procedures compatible with that language. Patai should go after the folks in Washington if she wants to lay blame on someone's doorstep. Professors and administrators like Colter are the problem, not Capitol Hill. Instituting practices that quiet any ideas will only contribute to the growth in intensity of such ideas. When hatred intensifies, it turns to aggression.
Hatred needs to be aired and reformed by council and consul.
Politically correct dogma does no good. In fact, arguments have been made by civil rights organizations that there are more hate crimes perpetrated today than in the 1970s and 1980s. Few can forget what happened to Matthew Sheppard or even on our own campus when Hansen was stabbed on Fourth Avenue. Hate crimes like these are not borne out of thin air, but rather from feelings and thoughts that root themselves in a false quagmire. Through open dialogue.