Dean Minnich: Dissent is not spelled ‘v-i-o-l-e-n-c-e’ | COMMENTARY

Students who turned out to show compassion and solidarity with one side of the war in Gaza get an A for intentions — most of them — and an F for critical thinking.

For me, it’s deja vu. Students camped in tents under signs that said, “Make love, not war” in the 1960s. Then they skirmished with cops, damaged buildings and grounds, intimidated other students who just wanted to go to classes and made war to protest war.

Their simplistic idealism, they claimed, displayed their superiority...