Agreed. Left-leaning students might not be so much against Free Speech than against being associated with controversial ideas (including some that they share).

Agreed. Left-leaning students might not be so much against Free Speech than against being associated with controversial ideas (including some that they share). Twenty years ago, nobody outside the campus knew who the speakers were and what the guest lecture was about. Today, anything controversial will be on social media that very same day, and social reputation matters. Do they really want to deplatform those ideas, or simply not share the same platform?