Posted on 09/26/2017 8:20:25 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
About a decade and a half ago, our friend David Horowitz proposed an academic bill of rights for students but back then collegians were a bit more familiar with the original.
A recent Brookings Institution survey, for example, found that 44 percent of students believed so-called "hate speech" is not protected by the first amendment while another 16 percent answered "don’t know." Similarly, according to the Brookings web survey, 51 percent of students thought it was okay to shout down a speaker.
As you might expect, the study drew detractors from academe. "I must say that from the start I was skeptical," Hank Reichman wrote on the academe blog maintained by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). "The numbers simply didn’t jibe with my experience and that of almost every colleague I know."
Reichman also pointed out that the study was funded by the Koch Brothers. Nevertheless, he argues that "Last year, a different, more nationally representative survey of American college student opinions on free speech on campus conducted by Gallup found strikingly different results, as John Wilson reported on this blog in April."
"That survey of more than 3,000 college students, who had been selected in a carefully randomized process from a nationally representative group of colleges, had asked students the same question. It found that 78% of students said colleges should create an 'open learning environment.'"
Yet and still, that poll contains some other interesting findings. For example, it found that 48 percent did not trust the media very much, which makes a striking ying yang juxtaposition with the percentage who were okay with shouting down a speaker.
Malcolm A. Kline is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia. He can be reached at mal.kline@academia.org.
Unpopular speech is exactly what the Bill of Rights is supposed to protect.
It’s not a Bill of Rights. It’s become a Bill of Privileges reserved for the elite. If the little people infringe upon those privileges, the MSM storm troopers label them as being racist, fascist or hateful.
“Students.”
Is there anything they don’t know?
Another reason communism will not win: it depends on miseducation.
Freedom is slavery.
War is peace.
Ignorance is strength.........................
Reichman also pointed out that the study was funded by the Koch Brothers.
Evil Capitalists™.
a different, more nationally representative survey of American college student opinions on free speech on campus conducted by Gallup found strikingly different results
And the difference?
78% of students said colleges should create an 'open learning environment.'
Of course, students believe free speech damages an 'open learning environment.'
No.....it is the racist component of Black America that is hateful and deserves scorn.
I despise the very premise of the phrase “hate speech”. It’s nothing more than PC jargon.
Since some of our population find the freedoms guaranteed by our Bill of Rights to be offensive, they should be deported to a country they find more agreeable.
True liberals recognize this but they are getting harder and harder to find.
In other words, not random at all.
yeah, btw, I didn’t even point this out: Columbia conducted the poll, 90 percent of which consisted of how do you feel about it questions.
This is straight from Obama...he stated once that the Bill of Rights was a “negative” document. What he meant was, “it protects citizens’ rights from the government”, therefore limiting his totalitarian ideas.
People had better be glad we have a BOR, or we’d soon be a dictatorship.
No, that's not the same question at all. It's totally different. While I don't know what "open learning environment" means it certainly is not the same as asking if the 1st Amendment applies to hate speech.
no, progressives are.
Okay, you convinced me;>)
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