ABSTRACT
Classical liberalism valued intellectual tolerance and respect for differences. It also placed primacy importance on liberty—that is, the idea that people should be free to believe what they wish, to say what they wish, and to live their lives as robustly as they wish. The ranks of the regressive left are filled by scholars primarily trained in humanities and the more radicalized of social sciences. Favored groups of the repressive left include political radicals, progressives, and minorities, especially women and blacks. The deviance process, something criminologists have long written about and cautioned against, has been fully embraced by many academics and administrators, often with tragic consequences. In the common parlance of academic language, deviance reflects a departure from commonly accepted norms for social behavior. The chapter examines the forces that contribute, more broadly, to the ideology of campus repression and "intolerance of intolerance". First, tThe most obvious source of energy for regressive left comes from ethnic and women's studies programs.
