New Report Shows Almost ALL Colleges Restrict Free Speech
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🗓️ 27 December 2018
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Summary
New Report Shows Almost ALL Colleges Restrict Free Speech. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education issued a report recently showing that 9 out of 10 colleges are restricting speech to some degree.
While the trope tends to be that the far left and social justice activists are the ones causing this problem, often they are victims of these policies as well. A story from Vox showed that of faculty who were fired from a College for speech it was mostly liberal identified staff.
Why then does mainstream media and the left claim there is no free speech crisis? Well for one whether there is or is not a crisis is an opinion, but it is likely just tribal.
Conservatives have been complaining over restrictions on speaking events and it would seem like the left wants to deny them this claim. But in the long run, the defense of speech may actually benefit the right.
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| 0:00.0 | A new report from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Education finds that 9 out of 10 colleges |
| 0:05.5 | are actually restricting free speech. |
| 0:07.8 | And it's kind of scary when you think about what colleges supposed to do. |
| 0:11.8 | It's supposed to take young people and expose them to ideas they haven't heard before |
| 0:15.1 | to prepare them for the real world. |
| 0:17.3 | But it seems like more and more universities are terrified of controversy, so they end up |
| 0:21.2 | shutting down certain speakers or certain ideas. |
| 0:24.0 | It's not helped when antifascows up and actually burns things down and commits acts of violence |
| 0:28.9 | so these universities are scared and have to pay for it. |
| 0:31.5 | But it does seem like they're treating their students more like customers and thus just |
| 0:35.4 | catering to their wins. |
| 0:37.2 | Now in reality, it is both left and right that gets censored in terms of free speech. |
| 0:42.8 | But for some reason, the narrative from the left tends to be that there is no free speech |
| 0:48.4 | crisis when the data actually says otherwise. |
| 0:51.5 | So today, let's take a look at the latest report and then look at some of the stories |
| 0:54.7 | where free speech is winning and losing on college campuses. |
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| 1:11.1 | From thefire.org, 9 in 10 American colleges restrict free speech. |
| 1:16.4 | In 11 states, at least half of colleges rated earned Fires worst rating for clearly and |
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