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cancellations won’t end until the likes of Ek are courageous and tough-minded enough to tell the mob and its whiny fellow travelers that offensive speech isn’t a threat to anyone’s safety or emotional well-being, and that they’re done pretending otherwise.

The debate over speech in this country is too often defined by people using their childishness and sense of entitlement as weapons. That won’t change until leaders are unafraid to tell them in frank terms to grow up.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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