In 2000 a Catholic high school in Louisiana was liberated from the scourge of Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor:

Why? Because, according to Rod Dreher, writing in The Weekly Standard (Sept. 11), certain black parents protested that the book contains characters who use the words nigger and pickaninny.

A Good Man Is Hard to Find was the book, one of its stories “The Artificial Nigger.”

Thou shalt not think!

“People demand freedom of speech
to make up for the freedom of thought
which they avoid.”

It’s dangerous; so provide a narrative and require it. Columbus discovered America, as once taught. OK, new narrative: he didn’t. Etc. Whatever. What we need is a narrative.