My children have taught me about so many of my limitations . One example is that I can be too quick to jump to conclusions about someone’s motivations or beliefs, based on something I hear (or, more likely, see) them say. If you’re a fellow millennial, you might be compelled to defend me: But speech matters! You can’t just say any old thing and expect to get away with it! Look at Trump! He says whatever he wants because he thinks words don’t matter! Words do matter! A lot!

To which my children, and many of the Gen-Z college students I teach, might reply: Isn’t it possible that you’re being reductive, or that you’re making a bad-faith assessment for reasons of your own, possibly as a comforting bulwark against the chaos of the current political climate? (They don’t really say it l

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