Posted on 07/06/2021 12:03:48 PM PDT by karpov
About two years ago, I spoke to a class of UNC-Chapel Hill students about free speech: what it is and why it is important. I covered some basic points such as the kinds of speech the First Amendment does and does not protect. I also talked about the importance of respecting dissenting opinions, and how shutting down ideas is not the most effective way to get people to change their minds.
To my surprise, several students stated that they believed that it was their constitutional right to prevent someone else from speaking, if they disagreed with what was being said. I left that class realizing how little those students understood the First Amendment.
But I shouldn’t have been surprised. Although a 2019 survey by the Knight Foundation and Gallup found that 68 percent of college students believe that free speech rights are “extremely important” to democracy, findings from the same report suggest that many students have a shallow grasp of the First Amendment.
Fortunately, North Carolina has a law that helps address students’ misconceptions about the First Amendment. In the summer of 2017, the North Carolina legislature signed the North Carolina Campus Free Speech Act into law. The law contains important provisions that protect and affirm the importance of campus free speech.
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Just ask Mike Adams…Oh, wait. That’s right, they badgered that man about how he exercised his First Amendment rights until he ended up taking his own life.
Thank you for having taken the time to share wisdom with the recent entering class.
So disappointing to know how the campus culture has changed over the years.
Morehead Scholar, ‘73
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
In other words, sorta free speech at UNC.
Being offended I believe I should delete this article and purge it from the internet. Somebodies will be offended I took action and then delete me from the internet. As soon as nobody is offended there will be nothing left of society or the internet but everyone will be happy and nobody will be offended ..... Right ?
Impressed
That’s good.
“Freedom of expression” is a corruption of freedom of speech.
Such a shame. He was a soldier who ran toward the sounds of battle.
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