[Mafe]

In my opinion, all the more reason to boycott public universities. I know that if I have kids, the only way they will ever attend a public university is if they pay for it themselves.

Luckily more and more states are taking action banning safe spaces and speech zones (as Florida just did), and I sure am glad that ultimately the law and not the students are in charge of these policies. I wonder what percentage of public (or private) universities restrict speech vs. don't. I was an outspoken conservative in college, at least in my classes, and I had no idea that there was even such a thing as a safe space, until I left college. But then again the college I went to was in a town of 21,000 people in rural Illinois.

[Teacher317]

The Virtue Signal Whores just want to parrot whatever they feel sounds “nice” and will thus gain them approval of those around them. They have no grounding for any of their opinions, and thus their opinions are worthless.

[Steely Tom]

You’re free to agree with me.

[goldstategop]

Snowflakes are totalitarian thugs.

They get offended by every one and by everything.

Most of all, they’re offended by life. They can’t function in the real world.

For that, they can thank their university education.

[Mears]

” In my opinion, all the more reason to boycott public universities.”

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That makes absolutely no sense.

You actually think that private universities are more conservative?

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[bigbob]

Free speech for me but not for thee.

[Billthedrill]

One of the highest and most neglected missions of higher education is to get - to force, in fact - students to examine their core beliefs and to understand that even the noblest abstractions tend to conflict in the real world. And to give them the tools to choose. To discriminate, if I may use a Bad Word.

On the most obvious level these are young minds who want to have their cake and eat it too, unaware that they can't have, say, coercion where they think they're valuing freedom, inclusion that is achieved by excluding any who have different life views, reason that is achieved by violence. This is not critical thinking that is easily achieved by young minds still grappling with what these grand abstractions really mean, which is why there is a faculty composed of minds that presumably have.

Unfortunately the latter is no longer the case, and large swathes of faculty and staff have never elevated their intellects past the grand illusions of youth, seeking instead to be forever young themselves. The madness feeds on itself. And so there is no appreciation that no one side can lay claim, as the Left does, to complete and exclusive possession of every ideal that pretends virtue, consigning its opponents to sole possession of every ideal that is wicked. And by the time this dawns on the now-impoverished victim of this intellectual charade, it's too late to learn the tools of discrimination (that Bad Word again) any way but the hard, real-world one. And so their collegiate experience becomes one of joining a tribe and avoiding any tendency to challenge its verities. It's a cheat, in short.

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[wbarmy]

This is the place where Inigo Montoya tells us that they keep using those words wrong. Am I right?

[FreedomNotSafety]

This writer has a hard time writing a meaningful first sentence. “Free speech may not mean what most college students think it means.” Free speech is defined by the 4th. Its meaning is not subject to the variation that “may not mean” implies. Clickbait style writing is killing clearheaded thinking.

How about: “College students do not understand the meaning of free speech.”

[WayneS]

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