The right to speak freely is not the same as the right to rob others of their voices.
Problem is, the leftists do believe exactly that. Which a lot of teachers and professors are finally admitting is a threat, and that they helped create and encourage it.
Good piece by a teacher realizing the monster they helped create is eating them.
Understanding this argument requires an ability to detect and follow
nuance, but nuance has largely been dismissed from the debates about
speech raging on college campuses. Absolutist postures and the binary
reign supreme. You are pro- or anti-, radical or fascist, angel or
demon. Even small differences of opinion are seized on and characterized
as moral and intellectual failures, unacceptable thought crimes that
cancel out anything else you might say.
Berkeley, anyone? Evergreen? How many very-expensive universities?
No one should have to
pass someone else’s ideological purity test to be allowed to speak.
University life — along with civic life — dies without the free exchange
of ideas.
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