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Uh-huh.
That sounds like every issue of the Dartmouth Review since the 80s.
Like this ?
I have a question.
When do college students have time for such things as sit ins and hunger strikes?
I mean if you pulling a full loaf of 16 or more credits in subjects like advanced calculus and physics you spend about 3 hours a week out of class on each subject so thats 62 hours alone. I always had a part time job in college soother than attending a few political rallies I didnt have much free time.
Plus nowadays with the high cost of college a student better be taking 18 hours or more and getting thru as fast as possible.
The hunger striker in Missouri is a grad student in educational administration, and his father is a multi-millionaire. Maybe he was hoping to push the president out, and grab the position for himself.
Regards,
Shodan
You know if you look at some of the demands they do seem to be tailor made for future jobs of those doing the protesting. Like “Director of diversity” would be perfect for a black studies major.
I now almost have a grudging respect for this character. Well played, well played indeed.
40% of Millennials want to limit speech that is “offensive” to minorities. No discussion allowed.
Those numbers go down with education level, according to your cite, so I don’t see what you’re so worried about.
I don’t know about D’Anconia, but since support for such censorship is nearly double among Democrats than Republicans, and since college professors are overwhelmingly Democrat,, I am worried that they will use their position to indoctrinate for this kind of idiocy.
Regards,
Shodan
Besides the horribleness of the idea on a philosophical level, one wonders how they think such a thing should or even might work in actual practice.
Its about as bad as saying the government should give free shit to people who want or need it.
Tried my damnedest to find a defense/explanation for this, based on the wording of the question or something like that, and came up with nothing. I’ll just say that I hope that those Democratic supporters and leaners who answered on the pro-censorship side of this poll did so out of ignorance rather than actual conviction that the government should prevent and sanction offensive speech.
It seems pretty clear to me: they asked whether leftist sacred cows should be gored, not about whether rightist sacred cows should be gored. Ask whether the government should be able to prevent speech offensive to Christians, or sexually explicit speech, or speech about homosexuality, or speech about the benefits of abortion, and see how the numbers skew.
The people who favor such censorship are wrong, regardless, but let’s not pretend this shows that liberals favor censorship more than conservatives.
I hadn’t thought of that – I’d love to see polling results for this.
This report shows that support for freedom of religiously offensive speech in the US is even higher than support for freedom of racially offensive speech–but support for sexually explicit speech is much lower.
The tendency is for Democrats to label speech as “hate speech” and say that it should not be protected, but free speech should.
Obviously it is not monolithic on the GOP side - Ben Carson wants to ban religous hate speech. In this he agrees with a clear majority of other blacks.
It depends on how you frame the questions, of course, and both sides have the unfortunate tendency towards “free speech for me but not for thee”.
Regards,
Shodan
I’m sure that’s D’Anconia’s worry too, but the numbers he referenced show that people who go to college become less likely to want to prohibit speech.
Unless they become professors.
Regards,
Shodan
Agreed.