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“I don’t agree that you, when you become students at colleges, have to be coddled and protected from different points of view.”

— U.S. President Barack Obama

I am the epitome of the contemporary privileged liberal: a 23-year-old straight, white, male university student from a middle-class family of teachers who plays golf.

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I follow Bernie Sanders on Facebook (#feelthebern) and, despite being straight, I have a bit of a crush on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. I sympathize with indigenous people, support affirmative action, criticize nationalism, I’m critical of the monarchy, an avid “Movember” participant, skeptical of pipelines, youthful to the point of naive and, to top it all off, a feminist. How could it be possible that I feel uncomfortable expressing my views on a liberal, middle class campus like the University of Victoria?

The answer: if a privileged individual like myself accidentally offends someone who is “coddled and protected from different points of view,” then I am seen as insensitive, irresponsible and borderline bigoted.