Ep. 512 Are the Tolerant Millennials the Least Tolerant of All? New Research Asks Some Tough Questions
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
We're told that young people today are just super -- why, they're so darn tolerant, unlike their stupid and backward parents and grandparents. But if we define toleration as involving how we treat the rights of people we dislike -- and of course, we should define it that way -- how tolerant are they?
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 512. |
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| 0:39.5 | slash publicity. Welcome to episode number 512. Today we're going to be talking about, well, political correctness, |
| 0:47.5 | but really free speech on campus, free exchange of ideas on college campuses and among young people generally. Now, if you ask me, |
| 0:56.5 | I am glad to be far away from college campuses at this point of my life. I'm glad to be there |
| 1:02.3 | from time to time doing some public speaking, but I remember, I well remember what a lunatic asylum |
| 1:08.7 | it was when I was there for my undergraduate experience. |
| 1:12.6 | But what I want to talk about today are some interesting findings regarding toleration |
| 1:18.6 | on the part of the rising generation, let's say people of college age and thereabouts. |
| 1:23.6 | Because we are inclined to say that we have the most tolerant young people ever. |
| 1:30.7 | My goodness, they've got the most open minds, and they are wonderful. They have finally cast aside |
| 1:39.0 | all the terrible thoughts of all the reactionary forces of the past, and now they are prepared to move ahead into the future with nothing but goodwill toward everyone. |
| 1:50.2 | Well, that's not quite right, actually, according to some recent research, and it's our guest today who's been very much involved in gathering and conducting that research. |
| 2:01.1 | And our guest is April Kelly Wessner, who is a professor of political science |
| 2:05.6 | and the chair of the Department of Politics, Philosophy, and Legal Studies at Elizabethtown College. |
| 2:11.7 | She's also director of the Masters in Public Policy Program. |
| 2:15.0 | Her research has been featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education, |
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