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Freedom of speech is endangered on college campuses — and I’m fighting back
New York Post ^ | July 31, 2021 | Rikki Schlott

Posted on 07/31/2021 5:28:16 AM PDT by karpov

From the moment I stepped foot on campus at NYU three years ago, I’ve been taught that there is right-think and wrong-think. Everywhere I look, professors, administrators and peers all fervently parrot the same beliefs.

I have sat through orientation events that were highly politicized, assuming “community values” of radical progressivism — values I don’t share.

On the first day of the semester, a professor blatantly disparaged conservative politicians and their supporters as uneducated and ignorant. Even Mayor de Blasio intervened in October of 2018 to prevent right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking to a class of about 25 freshmen about political correctness after the campus erupted in outrage and Antifa threatened to shut down the event.

My experience is not unique. Across the nation, professors are espousing their own views at the lectern and thrusting politicized curricula upon students, teaching them what to think rather than how to think. Meanwhile, speech codes, safe spaces, trigger warnings and the conflation of speech with violence have all had a discernibly chilling effect on campus discourse. NYU identification cards even prominently display a bias report hotline to report any instances of offense. The resulting fear of saying the wrong thing or being behind on the latest political lingo is palpable.

Professors around the country now record their lectures as a safeguard against accusations of bias. Others provide exhaustive trigger warnings about anything that could be construed as even vaguely controversial. Students preface their points with, “I don’t mean to be offensive, but …” (for the record, they almost never are).

Today’s students recoil at the first hint of contention and demand insulation from controversial ideas. But, in the process of bubble-wrapping themselves, they undermine the very purpose of their education: the exploration of self that is paramount to intellectual maturity.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: cancelculture; censorship; college; fire; nyu

1 posted on 07/31/2021 5:28:16 AM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov
The author of this article is absolutely spot on! This is the root of the rot that is destroying America.

The irony is that good, hard-working parents are paying these colleges to indoctrinate their kids and convert them to good little socialists.

2 posted on 07/31/2021 5:36:02 AM PDT by eeriegeno (A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State....)
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To: karpov

Unless your kid is getting an engineering ,technical,medical,science,law degree you’re wasting your dough or theirs.


3 posted on 07/31/2021 5:37:59 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: karpov

Doesn’t Ben Shapiro visit campuses and give free speech lectures?


4 posted on 07/31/2021 5:41:03 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: karpov

“Stepped foot” must me a new or alternative way of writing “set foot.” Oh well. I have to go shop for some pilcils at Walmark.


5 posted on 07/31/2021 5:59:56 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (No audits. No peace.)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

““Stepped foot” must me a new or alternative way of writing “set foot.” Oh well. I have to go shop for some pilcils at Walmark.”

She’s from New York. Where people stand “on line”, not “in line”.


6 posted on 07/31/2021 6:24:40 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: karpov
So Rikki, why do you waste your money going to NYU? She probably doesn't realize that in many parts of the country a degree from NYU is just a very expensive way to be unemployed. Hell, I would never hire someone so stupid to spend tens of thousands of dollars and go into debt to surround themselves with leftists.

Every moment of indoctrination is a moment that lacks rigorous education in a field of study (unless that is some "studies" degree).

7 posted on 07/31/2021 6:32:52 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: karpov
I’ve been taught that there is right-think and wrong-think. Everywhere I look, professors, administrators and peers all fervently parrot the same beliefs.

remember fellow slaves:

newspeak is the official language of New America because it has been devised by the Ministry of Truth to meet the ideological needs of NAMSOC or New American socialism. So, If you disobey the thought police you will be punished.

8 posted on 07/31/2021 6:35:03 AM PDT by mjp (pro-freedom & pro-wealth $)
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This quote from the article caught my eye:

“I analyze complaint letters from students and faculty
across the nation who feel their rights have been
violated. They reach out by the hundreds monthly.”


If this is true, then the time has come for the majority to speak up. Instead, except for a few brave men and women like the author, most cover their heads with their favorite blankets and pray no one will notice them. If the trend continues then, unlike the Greatest Generation, this generation will be the one that bids good bye to the American Dream and should be known as the Least Generation.


9 posted on 07/31/2021 7:37:43 AM PDT by JGPhila
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To: JonPreston
Doesn’t Ben Shapiro visit campuses and give free speech lectures?

2017 example of one of the various college students' riots. They set fire to police cars and broken most of the class building windows on campuses in days when Ann Coulter and Shapiro speeches were scheduled.

Administrators quickly banned the speakers "because we care about the safety of our students." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvLPZjcxvCI

10 posted on 07/31/2021 4:26:58 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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