Fighting words: The campus free speech battle at UW often focuses on guest speakers

Students who feel marginalized on campus — by race, gender or sexual orientation — and their allies are engaged in a battle over “safe spaces” with classmates who insist they, and the speakers they invite to campus, can say what they like, no matter who finds it offensive.It’s a culture war for the 21st century that some say threatens America’s bedrock value of freedom of speech.