Give people a little power, and they will seize the moment and take up the scepter to impose their values on everyone else. I call those people “political supremacists.”
“Trainers called for us [educators] to raise our hands if we could commit to using preferred pronouns and stand up if we commit to using trans students’ preferred names,” recalls a staffer.
We cannot stop all abuse of Interpol. We will find it difficult to suspend Russia from Interpol, never mind kick it out. But we can raise significant barriers to Russian abuse.
We’ve all heard stories about university administrators cracking down on free speech. But free expression is suffering even without these enablers, and that should worry us.
