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Tuesday, November 5. 2013

Free speech in college?


Few of our readers will recall Mario Savio and the (brief) Free Speech Movement at Berkeley. Savio was a Lefty of sorts, but he thought people ought to express their opinions.


In these times, higher ed (and lower ed) reveal ongoing discomfort with dissent and dissenting expression from the bien pensant party line:


The slow death of free speech at Harvard


Even Savio would hate this trend:  Brown U. Students Can’t Handle Free Speech


What is the matter with these people?


Look at this kerfuffle, as Althouse would term it: "The Badger Herald printed a letter from a political science junior titled, 'Rape Culture Does Not Exist.'"


A "rape culture" in America? I don't think so. For starters, it's a felony and I'd guess 100% of Americans think it should be. The letter-writer is right, of course.




The Slow Death of Free Speech at Harvard
Posted by The Barrister in Education, Our Essays, Politics at 13:46 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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But wasn't Mario Savio campaigning for free speech for everyone who agree with him? And if you didn't, will, free speech wasn't available. I've always viewed the Free Speech Movement as the forerunner of the thought police of today. But I could be wrong.
#1 Greg Taylor on 2013-11-06 08:43 (Reply)

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