William Brennan William Brennan is a professor in the St. Louis University School of Social Service. We were wrong.
Violent words pave the way for violent deeds.
Name-calling is an indispensable component of all levels of oppression, from discrimination to segregation to enslavement to outright annihilation. All these likely play a role in keeping Roe v. Wade the law of the land. Thoughtful and perceptive people inside and outside today's multicultural and diversity movements have aroused the public's consciousness to the impact of toxic speech on a wide range of vulnerable individuals and groups. Vigilance has often been deformed into vigilanteism, however. There is a growing brigade of politically correct thought-controllers in academia and other influential circles.