[E. Pluribus Unum]

Could somebody please explain to me why we didn't need campus speech codes in the 70s when I was in college but we do need them now? What exactly has changed? I don't get it.

[Christian B]

There is a virtual consensus among academia that everything we say, think, and do classifies the rest of the world. This "classification" can be very harmful is people aren't taught the limitations and excesses of their own opinions and beliefs. They believe that people are most healthy when they don't allow their own opinions, words or actions to impede on the one-ness of others. And worse, if people aren't taught to respect everyones beliefs (a.k.a pluralism), other people's feeling might get hurt and that is a form of oppression.

[TopQuark]

Could somebody please explain to me why we didn't need campus speech codes in the 70s when I was in college but we do need them now? What exactly has changed? I don't get it.

People that are never satisfied --- and you know that for the leftists following a moving target is modus vivendi -- will tell you that this is a manifestation of "evolving stadards of decency."

You evolve, they decide.

[mrustow]

Could somebody please explain to me why we didn't need campus speech codes in the 70s when I was in college but we do need them now? What exactly has changed? I don't get it.

What exactly has changed? The balance of power; the supposed stewards of civilization surrendered to the barbarians.