Posted on 09/11/2025 8:29:26 AM PDT by DFG
After what just happened, I don’t know if any commentary is even needed.
One in three students believe some level of violence is acceptable to stop a campus speech, according to the results of a large-scale survey released Tuesday by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
The survey, which questioned more than 68,000 students at 257 colleges and universities nationwide on a variety of free speech topics, asked: “How acceptable would you say it is for students to engage in the following actions to protest a campus speaker? Using violence to stop a campus speech.”
Two percent said “always acceptable,” 13 percent said “sometimes acceptable,” and 19 percent said “rarely acceptable,” or about one-third of those surveyed.
The timing of the FIRE survey release is almost eerily letter perfect.
The murder of Charlie Kirk was not the action of one man, but of a culture that has been incubated on college campuses, that occasionally gets called ‘liberal’, but has no more in common with liberalism than Al Qaeda does.
Think about these numbers for a moment. From a huge sample size, 2% or 1,360 said it’s always acceptable to use violence to shut up people you oppose.
Over 10,000 college students found it acceptable to use violence some of the time.
College is the problem. Or rather the culture of extremism and indoctrination. The same culture that came after David Horowitz, came after multiple campus speakers including Ben Shapiro, that assaulted multiple conservative speakers, and now finally killed Charlie Kirk.
Does it end here? Not unless it gets shut down for good.
This young girl witnessed the assassination of Charlie Kirk. She also witnessed liberals cheering.
Anyone who cheered can go straight to hell.
Fascist beliefs are rampant on campus, disguised an anti-fascism.
Liberals can’t deal with hurt feelings, so they lash out. There needs to be stern and immediate pushback every time. There left must be crushed.
That’ll go to 2 in 3 if schools are allowed to continue spewing out communist BS
Because almost 3 in 3 of College students were indoctrinated in our failed leftist government schools.
College Administrators must be so darn proud. Mission accomplished.
1 in 3 college students are fat, brain-washed, media-addicted, coddled children who have no clue what violence looks like or the consequences of it.
Evil. Satanic. Demonic. Demon possessed. That party needs an exorcism. The nation needs revival.
The key word in your post is “pushback”. There has been no pushback against violent leftist rhetoric for at least 30 years. So every year they get bolder.
The only bright spot here is that Trump is in charge.
No beliefs needed to enter higher education.
Schools, from kindergarten all the way to colleges, have become places where people are not taught *how* to think but *what* to think. Minds aren’t enlightened. They’re brainwashed. Indoctrination abounds.
And if asked their political leanings, there would be a 100% correlation between those who believe in using violence to limit speech and those who identify as strongly liberal.
That's why the left equates conservative speech with "violence": It justifies physical attack.
1 in 3 college students is stupid and this is proof.
Then how would they feel if a half dozen commie trash were offed? Let’s say, in the next week or so, one after another?
KKK leadership told their foot soldiers (all Democrats) that it was OK to hang ......”darkies”, since they were not human. This is the exact same phenom. Commie trash in Unis and MSM are telling the loons they created that it is OK to murder anyone they disagree with.
So, Old Testament. What happens if a half dozen of these rabble activators (modern day KKK) were offed and notes left for them along the lines of : “Stop the hate or we continue with this.”
[[1 in 3 College Students Believe in Violence to Stop Campus Speech]]
But ONLY IF YOUR voices aren’t the ones that are silenced by violence, right libbies?
Hey lefties- They call your beliefs FASCISM!
You know who else believes in violence to stop opposition? YUP- China, Russia, NK, islamic nations, and any number of other fascist nations! Liberals scream about the right supposedly being fascists, but the fact is the left are the fascists- the right are the victims of said fascists! Stop the BS lefties!
I couldn’t agree more!
Are the violent students more likely to participate in a poll like this?
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