Mike Adams
Author’s Note: The following column is comprised of excerpts taken from my first lectures on the first day of classes this semester at UNC-Wilmington. I reproduced these remarks with the hope that they would be useful to other professors teaching at public universities all across America. Feel free to use this material if you already have tenure.
"Welcome back to class, students! I am Mike Adams your criminology professor here at UNC Wilmington. Before we get started with the course I need to address an issue that is causing
problems here at UNCW and in higher education all across the country. I am talking about the
growing minority of students who believe they have a right to be free from being offended. If we
don’t reverse this dangerous trend in our society there will soon be a majority of young people who
will need to walk around in plastic bubble suits to protect them in the event that they come into
contact with a dissenting viewpoint. That mentality is unworthy of an American. It’s hardly worthy
of a Frenchman.
Let’s get something straight right now. You have no right to be unoffended. You have a right to be
offended with regularity. It is the price you pay for living in a free society. If you don’t understand
that you are confused and dangerously so. In part, I blame your high school teachers for failing to
teach you basic civics before you got your diploma. Most of you went to the public high schools,
which are a disaster. Don’t tell me that offended you. I went to a public high school. " . . .
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