Poll: 19% of students endorse violence to 'prevent' speakers

Poll: 19% of students endorse violence to 'prevent' speakers

• A new Brooking Institution survey finds that 19% of undergraduate students support using violence to shut down controversial speakers.
• Another 51 percent supported the use of the so-called "heckler's veto" to shout down speakers that are opposed by protesters.

A new survey published by The Brookings Institution finds that about one-in-five undergraduate students approve of using violence to shut down controversial speakers.
A majority of undergraduate students at U.S. four-year colleges and universities also agreed with a hypothetical protest in which a group “opposed to the speaker disrupts the speech by loudly and repeatedly shouting so that the audience cannot hear the speaker...”

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