Freedom of Speech is under attack on many university and college campuses. In September 2017 a Brookings Institute survey concluded that 51% of university students thought it is acceptable to shout down or create sufficient noise to drown out any speaker the student disagrees with and 19 % of students thought is was acceptable to use violence to shut down any speech they disagreed with.
Here are some recent articles on threats to Freedom of Speech on university and college campuses:
- University Bullies Student Who dares To Show Clip of Jordan Peterson – Rex Murphy, National Post, November 2017
- Thought Police Strike Again – Christie Blatchford, National Post, November 2017
- Suffocating Academic Free Speech – Front Page Magazine, 6 October 2017
- Campus Freedom Index 2017 – Justice Centre For Constitutional Freedoms (Canada), September 2017
- College Students vs. Free Speech – Ben Shapiro, National Review, 20 September 2017
- The End of the First Amendment – Ben Shapiro, Daily Wire, September 2017
- Common Sense On Campus – by Denis MacEoin, Gatestone Institute, 20 September 2017
- Poll Shows 51% of College Students Say It’s Fine To Shout Down “Harmful and Offensive” Speakers – by Ben Shapiro, Daily Wire, 19 September 2017
- Brookings Institute survey on college students’ attitude toward the 1st Amendment – Brookings Institute, 18 September 2017
Here are some videos on Freedom of Speech on university and college campuses:
Jordan Peterson interviews two Wilfred Laurier University professors about the Lindsay Shepherd case – December 2017
Mark Steyn on the Lindsay Shepherd case at Wilfred Laurier University – December 2017
Does Free Speech Offend You – Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, on PragerU, 2015
Greg Likianoff on Ridiculous Cases of Prohibited Speech On University Campuses, 2014
Robert Spencer on Islamophobia and Freedom of Speech on Campus, December 2017
Gad Saad on Political Correctness vs. Free Speech, September 2017
Dave Rubin, Jordan Peterson and Onkar Ghate at Clemson University, October 2017
Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report at Harvard with Bret Weinstein and Steve Simpson, September 2017
Ben Shapiro on Freedom of Speech On University Campuses – Daily Wire, 15 September 2017
Dr. Jordan Peterson discussing an incident at Wilfred Laurier University, November 2017
Censorship On Campus (Canada) – Jordan Peterson, Gad Saad and John Carpay, Manning Conference, March 2017 (Note: poor audio in places)
Let’s Talk About Free Speech On Campus – Dave Rubin, The Rubin Report, 2016
Gad Saad on How Political Correctness Limits the Free Exchange of Ideas on Campus, February 2016
Ben Shapiro discussing Free Speech, College Campuses and the Regressive Left, on the Rubin Report, February 2016
Gad Saad discussing Free Speech, Trigger Warnings and Safe Spaces on Campus with Dave Rubin on the Rubin Report, February 2016
Peter Boghossian discusses Trigger Warning: Your Ideas Don’t Have Rights, on the Rubin Report, December 2015
But, hopefully, things may be changing. Jonathan Haidt, December 2017
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