The survey provides further support for concerns that American college students are increasingly unwilling to tolerate political opinions they disagree with. Most troubling, it seems that the bounds of what is deemed “offensive” has continued to expand. Not only do students now bristle at tolerating truly hateful speech, but they also seem unable to stand even basic observations on popular political issues.

An easy way to fix this problem would be for universities to stop making it so easy to tattle to administrators over minor political disagreements—and stop setting students up with the expectation that any offense deserves administrative involvement.

However, that would require scaling back the huge bureaucracies that have exploded at many colleges for the express purpose of refereeing student and faculty speech—something most universities are unwilling to do.

[Camp comes close to the problem, but just misses it. The huge bureaucracies are a result of the real problem — the aggregation of power to enforce thoughtcrime on campuses. *That* is what colleges will resist giving up, and those reporting systems are the main resource for accruing and using that power. They have already indoctrinated the students into Academia’s snitch society, as this survey suggests. — Ed]