Posted on 01/30/2019 4:43:41 PM PST by C19fan
On Wednesday, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) released a survey showing that college students in Generation Z or iGen are conflicted on free speech and seem to value tolerance and inclusion more than this important First Amendment liberty. Sixty percent of students say "promoting an inclusive environment that is welcoming to a diverse group of students" is more important than "protecting students' free speech rights, even if it means allowing hurtful or offensive speech," the FIRE/YouGov poll found. More than half of students (57 percent) either agree or strongly agree that "colleges and universities should be able to restrict student expression of political views that are hurtful or offensive to certain students." Even worse, more than two-thirds of students (70 percent) agree with this statement: "students at my college or university should be excluded from extracurricular activities (ex: sports, Greek life, student organizations) if they publicly express intolerant, hurtful, or offensive viewpoints."
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Not tolerating free speech is intolerance, is it not? But the meaning of intolerance has been dumbed down to mean “that which we will not tolerate”.
And what other Constitutional protections do these “skulls full of mush” want to be ignored?
One of the saddest things ever.
I’m honestly surprised that number isn’t higher
That’s logically impossible: Tolerance and free speech are the same thing. Censorship is INtolerance.
I can tolerate anyone except intolerant people...
Does that make me intolerant?
I think that’s meta-intolerance.
Oh, give me a break!
Conservatives from millennial and Gen Xrs? What percent? Maybe 10 percent are “conservative.” I’ll wager the majority can’t even locate North America on a globe.
But you go right ahead and continue to root for ‘em - I wouldn’t expect anything less.
Now we got “Z” What is this? Sesame Street? ...
What comes next?
“Ok. Youre dead.”
I’m not - but if our survival depends on the majority of these dumb asses, then America sure as Hell is dead.
Another thing - how many of these idiots take their face out of their “smart” phones to even see a “fight” coming?
Yeah, that’s right - almost none. They can hardly sever themselves from their bloody digital umbilical cords long enough to avoid walking into a light pole ... But, oh - they’re dependable fighters.
What dream world are you living in?
Get out much?
Ofc they don’t value any “tolerance” of conservative ideas or people.
This goes hand in hand with “Free Speech Zones” on college campuses.
The highest law in the land makes Every inch of America a “Free Speech Zone”.
Most of these Marxist Indoctrination Centers get big Govt money.
Any college puts up a “Free Speech Zone” needs to have all of its Govt Money cut off for violations of Federal Civil Rights laws.
Yeah, how can you be tolerant if the other guy can’t open his yap? That’s intolerance.
Leave it to the media and brain dead kids to screw this up.
These surveys tell us nothing about young students and everything about their ethnicity.
One half of young Americans (18-23) are non-white.
They vote 80% for the Democrat Party.
White students vote almost exactly like their parents, but a little bit more to the Left.
White Parents - 60% Republican
White Students - 55% Republican
I’m fairly certain you don’t seem to know what a Gen X’r actually is. The people you are describing sound like modern kids. Not people between the age of 38 and 53. It’s hard to argue the point with you because you are calling every Father in America a dumbass. Seems odd.
I know of exactly whom I refer.
Do you get out much?
I’ve seen these people, the 38-53 age group, out in public - and they are just as obsessed with their “Smart” Phones as are their children. They could name you every NFL player and stat there is to know; they could tell you the characters and plots of every inane television sitcom that aired ... But ask them a question about U.S. history, economics, cultural rot, or geopolitics? They have a blank stare - just like their ignorant offspring.
Most of them - not all, but most - are clueless to world events, apathetic to politics, and indifferent to the state of this nation.
As long as they have Sunday Football on the idiot box, a case of Budweiser chilling in the fridge, the latest overpriced SUV in the driveway, and a front lawn greener than their neighbor’s, then life is just ducky.
I see it all around me, even here in rural Nebraska; but, apparently, you are either quite blind - or just being an argumentative PITA.
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