InstaPundit links to a George

InstaPundit links to a George Will column that laments the liberals’ abandonment of the free speech principle over the past generation, adding his own lament that Wills’s column “didn’t mention the problems at SFSU, UCSD, Orange Coast Community College, etc.” Both laments are right on target. In the old days, i.e., when I was coming of political age, if one heard of a campus controversy involving free speech one (“we”? I?) would have assumed right off the bat that the anti-free speech crowd was on the right, the censored on the left, with the liberals and possibly a conservative or two defending the victims’ First Amendment rights. That assumption is no longer valid, as the debates over campus speech codes clearly demonstrated.

Every bit as dramatic as the liberals’ reversal of position on First Amendment rights, however, has been the alacrity with which they’ve dropped their longstanding (from the 1830s to the 1960s) dedication to the principle of non-discrimination. Civil rights was long understood to require the elimination of racially based benefits and burdens. Now it is thought to require their preservation.

Hmmmm. The left has ditched core First and Fourteenth Amendment values. What’s left?

Say What?