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Barrett believes she offers a scientific rationale for “which kinds of controversial speech should and shouldn’t be acceptable on campus and in civil society. In short, the answer depends on whether the speech is abusive or merely offensive.” The latter has no adverse physical effects, but what she calls abusive speech triggers “the kind of stress that brings on illness and remodels your brain. That’s also true of a political climate in which groups of people endlessly hurl hateful words at one another, and of rampant bullying in school or on social media. A culture of constant, casual brutality is toxic to the body, and we suffer for it.”

Any standard that allows the listener to define the parameters of what a speaker may say is inherently anti free speech. The limits of free speech are, essentially, that one may not say something that is intended to cause actual, physical harm to the BODY of the person who hears it. One cannot yell "fire" in a crowded theater, unless there is actually a fire.

By defining "violent" speech as speech that causes an emotional reaction by the listener, this person explicitly endorses the repeal of all free speech rights in the country. I am certain she has never looked up the word "unalienable".

Barrett actually calls it “reasonable, scientifically speaking, not to allow a provocateur and hatemonger like Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at your school. He is part of something noxious, a campaign of abuse. There is nothing to be gained from debating him, for debate is not what he is offering.”

Once again we see 'science' used as a rubber stamp by unholy Leftists to validate their latest will-to-power. Thus everything from global warming to evolution, critical theory, multiple and ever evolving 'races' and genders,' and other such babble declared 'facts of science.' And since Leftists are self-evolved 'gods' they determine the meaning of 'unalienable.'

The babbling insanity, perversity, and other evils of our age are not due to America's plunge into the Red Queen's city beyond the Looking Glass but to the rise of Satan's City