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In the past students were not only for free speech, but actively fought for it. By contrast older individuals tended to be less supportive of such. Now those ro
by somenameforme 3y ago
In the past students were not only for free speech, but actively fought for it. By contrast older individuals tended to be less supportive of such. Now those roles have largely swapped where age is, by far, the biggest predictor of somebody's position on freedom of speech (younger = less). And so the widespread censorship on college campuses is met with relatively little opposition.
If there's a protest related to speech on college campuses now a days it's more like to be calling for more censorship, or cancelling somebody who said something perceived as offensive, rather than opposition to such behaviors. Hence one of the many reasons confidence in higher education is collapsing. In my mind higher education with censorship is teetering on being an oxymoron.
- UncleMeat 3y agoThe "widespread censorship" is not widespread. The number of "attempted disinvitations" (not even actual disinvitations) is not even visible on a chart of invited speakers at college campuses across time.
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- somenameforme 3y agoThere's quite an excellent poll on free speech on campuses available here. [1] And by every reasonable datum students feel that free speech on campuses is dying. For instance some 65% feel that "the climate at their school or on their campus prevents some people from saying things they believe because others might find it offensive." There's a million other interesting and informative datums in the survey as well. Notably it was also held after 2020, so we get the COVID impact as well. [1] - https://knightfoundation.org/reports/college-student-views-on-free-expression-and-campus-speech-2022/ https://knightfoundation.org/reports/college-student-views-o...