“This is because the value of free speech has been elevated to a near-sacred level on university campuses.”
Huh?
Restrict Free Speech? Great. Another democrat/totalitarian idiot notion from the Compost.
Look. Allow these idiots to praise Nazi/Hamas terrorists all day long.
Just let them know (and see) there are dire consequences to their idiot speech.
I especially like that law firms are denying jobs to idiots who support Hamas.
More free speech so we know them by their fruits.
How will you know somebody is an antisemite if you don’t let them spout their antisemitism?
Bull. This is a false equivalency. It asserts that pro-israel speech is just as hateful as support for exterminating jews.
Let us find out just how much the universities love free speech.
Have someone broadcast Alex Jones on any campus over a loudspeaker—and watch what happens next.
;-)
No. We need MUCH better education, open and honest discussion and examination of the facts.
To fight Islamaphobia, perhaps we should restrict the practice of Islam.
Wrong conclusion. I am gonna guess the dreck was written by a liberal.
Speech is not the problem. Intimidation, harassment, direct calls for violence against whole groups of people, occupation of buildings, and preventing the daily business of the university that is the problem.
As abhorrent as it is students have the right to peacefully demonstrate and give speeches either in support of Palestine and against Israel. “Hate speech” is too often in the eye of the beholder and is used as to bludgeon opinions that do not fit a current (usually Leftist) narrative.
Behavior that violates a code of conduct or the law is more obvious and should be less debatable no matter the culprit.
Failure to prosecute those who are in violation of the above is the problem. Not free speech.
Pretty sure threats of violence is already frowned upon.
Heck NO!
So now the ridiculous ‘safe space’ bubble is expanding to the whole University?
The whole point of a University is learning and the free exchange of ideas.
So as horrible as it sounds, I support the free speech of Neonazis, BLM, Farrakhan, LBGTQ?, even radical muslims. They all have free speech.
Bad, ugly speech is defeated with more bad, ugly speech.
but use the wrong pronoun
“The idea that free speech is treated as “near-sacred” on college campuses is beyond absurd.”
This is the kind of article that belongs in Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia or Maoist China, not the United States Of America!
Yeah, no. But speech caries consequences.
No. We do not need to restrict speech.
We do need to:
1. Restrict disruption of speech, by anyone. To protest is not to disrupt others by your protest. To protest is not to prevent others from speaking or intimidate or physically attacks others just because you disagree with them. To protest includes no right to try to silence others.
2. Those who violate the first principle should obtain penalties for their actions, including their ability to protest limited in place and time.
3. Schools who do not adhere to the first and second principles must have all public funding ended.
You counter bad ideas by insuring better ideas can be heard not by shutting up the speakers of bad ideas.
The Left is afraid of true free speech because they have spent decades silencing those who oppose them. Conservatives betray their own Conservatism when they seek to silence others.
F@#$ them all. Jews should go to community colleges and trade schools, yeshiva, or self-educate, as I did (all three). Let Asians step into the vacant slots, and f@#$ them, too. Elite colleges are a cesspool everyone is better off avoiding.
The people saying we need to restrict speech are the same idiots who claim “silence is violence.” If they were truthful, the would admit they only want to restrict speech they disagree with.