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#118 - Is Free Speech Threatened On Campus?

Open to Debate

Open to Debate

Society & Culture, Education, News

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Protests have erupted on university campuses across the country. To many, these students are speaking out against racial injustice that has long been manifested in unwelcoming, sometimes hostile environments. But to critics, their demands have gone too far, creating an atmosphere of intolerance for opposing or unpopular points of view. Are the protesters silencing free speech, or are they just trying to be heard? And are the universities responding by defending free speech, or by suppressing it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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A series of campus protests erupts across the United States,

0:26.5

the University of Missouri, Amherst, Dartmouth,

0:29.7

Ithaca, Yale and many other campuses where the instigating issue

0:34.4

is protesters' assertion that their schools are ignoring their complaints

0:38.4

of discrimination against minorities.

0:40.7

Before long, however, there is a backlash against the protesters themselves

0:44.5

with critics accusing them and their allies of seeking to silence those

0:48.7

whose views and statements they find offensive.

0:52.0

This accusation is not exactly new.

0:54.8

Like the charge of discrimination itself, it has been raised many times over many years,

0:59.3

but the recent protests have brought this question back into the foreground.

1:02.7

So let's have that debate.

1:04.6

Yes or no to this statement, free speech is threatened on campus.

1:09.6

A debate from Intelligent Squared US.

1:11.4

We are on the campus of Yale University with four superbly qualified debaters

1:15.9

who will argue for and against this motion free speech is threatened on campus.

1:21.6

As always, our debate will go in three rounds and then our live audience here at Yale

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