Sunday, November 18, 2012

How Free Speech Died On Campus

How Free Speech Died On Campus - Slashdot
"The WSJ catches up with FIRE's Greg Lukianoff and his crusade to expose how universities have become the most authoritarian institutions in America.
In Unlearning Liberty, Lukianoff notes that baby-boom Americans who remember the student protests of the 1960s tend to assume that U.S. colleges are still some of the freest places on earth.
But that idealized university no longer exists.
Today, university bureaucrats suppress debate with anti-harassment policies that function as de facto speech codes.
FIRE maintains a database of such policies on its website.
What they share, lifelong Democrat Lukianoff says, is a view of 'harassment' so broad and so removed from its legal definition that 'literally every student on campus is already guilty.'"

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