Arjuna
.338 Win Mag
The editors of the Wellesley News last week managed to quite nicely sum up the idiocy sweeping America’s campuses, writing, “Shutting down rhetoric that undermines the existence and rights of others is not a violation of free speech.”
Actually, that’s exactly what it is.
Wait, the editorial says: “The founding fathers put free speech into the Constitution as a way to protect the disenfranchised and to protect individual citizens from the power of government.
The spirit of free speech is to protect the suppressed, not to protect a free-for-all where anything is acceptable, no matter how hateful and damaging.”
Yes, the Constitution limits what the government can do. But free speech is precisely about protecting a “free-for-all” — where those you deem hateful get their say, and you have the chance to debunk and expose them.
Mind you, the Wellesley News editors grant that some kids come to college ignorant of the truth, and shouldn’t be shouted down immediately. “If people are given the resources to learn and either continue to speak hate speech or refuse to adapt their beliefs, then hostility may be warranted,” the editorial reads.
In other words, education is now all about indoctrination — with stubborn holdouts subject to denunciation and, implicitly, violence.
After all this, the righteous editorialists express a bit of self-pity: “The emotional labor required to educate people is immense and is additional weight that is put on those who are already forced to defend their human rights.”
Whoever said the thought police had it easy?
http://nypost.com/2017/04/15/the-campus-thought-police-want-you-to-feel-sorry-for-them/
Actually, that’s exactly what it is.
Wait, the editorial says: “The founding fathers put free speech into the Constitution as a way to protect the disenfranchised and to protect individual citizens from the power of government.
The spirit of free speech is to protect the suppressed, not to protect a free-for-all where anything is acceptable, no matter how hateful and damaging.”
Yes, the Constitution limits what the government can do. But free speech is precisely about protecting a “free-for-all” — where those you deem hateful get their say, and you have the chance to debunk and expose them.
Mind you, the Wellesley News editors grant that some kids come to college ignorant of the truth, and shouldn’t be shouted down immediately. “If people are given the resources to learn and either continue to speak hate speech or refuse to adapt their beliefs, then hostility may be warranted,” the editorial reads.
In other words, education is now all about indoctrination — with stubborn holdouts subject to denunciation and, implicitly, violence.
After all this, the righteous editorialists express a bit of self-pity: “The emotional labor required to educate people is immense and is additional weight that is put on those who are already forced to defend their human rights.”
Whoever said the thought police had it easy?
http://nypost.com/2017/04/15/the-campus-thought-police-want-you-to-feel-sorry-for-them/
