"Crippling the delivery of unpopular views is a terrible lesson to send to impressionable minds and future leaders, at Wesleyan and elsewhere. It teaches students that dissent will be punished, that rather than pipe up they should nod along. It also teaches them they might be too fragile to tolerate words that make them uncomfortable; rather than rebut, they should instead shut down, defund, shred, disinvite. But the solution to speech that offends should always be more speech, not less."
Showing posts with label funding cut to campus newspaper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label funding cut to campus newspaper. Show all posts
Friday, October 23, 2015
Free speech is flunking out on college campuses; Washington Post, 10/22/15
Catherine Rampell, Washington Post; Free speech is flunking out on college campuses:
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)