> One morning during first period, a male friend of Sam’s mentioned a meme whose suggestive name was an inside joke between the two of them. Sam laughed. A girl at the table overheard their private conversation, misconstrued it as a sexual reference, and reported it as sexual harassment. Sam’s guidance counselor pulled him out of his next class and accused him of “breaking the law.” Before long, he was in the office of a male administrator who informed him that the exchange was “illegal,” hinted that the police were coming, and delivered him into the custody of the school’s resource officer. At the administrator’s instruction, that man ushered Sam into an empty room, handed him a blank sheet of paper, and instructed him to write a “statement of guilt.”

And here my friends is how over liberalism leads to far-rightism.

I would be classified extremely liberal by American standards, yet even I'd be traumatised if something like this were to happen to me even today (and something like this actually did). And even I would find refuge in the far right. Trust me, no one's making lines to find refuge in the left.

Now imagine the effect of such a traumatic encounter on a child.