The challenge of being a public scholar is not just in being accountable for your words to a vast, diverse audience; it’s in being responsible for demanding that the vastness and diversity be preserved in the face of pressure to close it off for the profit or comfort of the elite.
It is a challenge to say the right thing to keep everyone in a good mood when talking about certain issues, however they should be able to talk about the uncomfortable in hopes of trully understanding an issue at its core