No Free Speech on American College Campuses

i turned it off as soon as john stossel started talking. 

so you are upset your conservative rabble rouser kent state gun girl got run off of the campus. cry me a river. 

do we really have to re-hash that "people are free to speak but they are also free to suffer consequences of that speech" again?

funny how the trumpsters cheer when their leader forcibly removes someone from his rallies because they are shouting something he doesn't like, all the while spouting disappointment at not being allowed to beat the shit out of them, yet they get all snowflakey about not being able to speak on college campuses. 

gimmesometruth27 said:

i turned it off as soon as john stossel started talking. 

so you are upset your conservative rabble rouser kent state gun girl got run off of the campus. cry me a river. 

I think it's really unfortunate that you wouldn't even give yourself the opportunity  to play it through and consider an alternative point of view. The professor being interviewed -- I've read one of her books several years ago when the country was reeling over the Baltimore riot. I don't necessarily agree that she should subtitle her campus talk "Why Police Are the Real Victims" (she's just asking for push-back with a title like that, in my view), but she does make a good point that people living in crime ridden neighborhoods deserve to be protected and live free from fear in their own homes. I also agree with her in this video that our current generation of young people do suffer from a victim-hood syndrome -- these kids, she says, live incredibly privileged lives on campuses with everything at their fingertips and somehow think of themselves as "oppressed" when they are among the most fortunate people who have ever lived in human history. I agree with those points. I don't think they are particularly difficult ideas to agree with. I'm pretty sick of the elite slice of this current generation coming up with their sense of entitlement, in general. I understand there are some hard-working young people out there, and 2/3 of high school grads don't go to college and have the luxury of protesting a speaker they don't agree with. Two-thirds of high school grads will never have what these young elites will have when they finish their degree that they don't want to pay for.  It really is disturbing, in my view, their obliviousness to their own privilege while they point figures at everyone else about their "oppression."  That's what I call "cry me a river."

And this ^^^^ is why I wonder how people expect this democracy to survive. You're basically making the argument easy for "the nutters" to win. When you dismiss people instead of attacking the argument, you lose.  When you refuse to show up with the power of your ideas, you lose. Don't turn Stossel, et. al., off. Confront them face on and actually win an argument. 

lindamarie73 said:

dmaradona10 said:

Glad I went to college in the 1990s where there was a diversity of viewpoints and opinions.  Speakers with controversial viewpoints were a common occurrence as well. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNEyUsDprPY

You can say that again about going to college in the 90’s....That clip was spot on about most college campuses, thanks 4 sharing it.   I spend way too much time around these rotten brain college nit wits who all seem to feel they are oppressed or owed something.  They are all on the Bernie “free shit” train so at least they are doing their part in Keep America Great.  

Is anyone of them signal boosting made up bullshit that Greta Thunberg is part of ANTIFA ?

what dreams said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

i turned it off as soon as john stossel started talking. 

so you are upset your conservative rabble rouser kent state gun girl got run off of the campus. cry me a river. 

I think it's really unfortunate that you wouldn't even give yourself the opportunity  to play it through and consider an alternative point of view. The professor being interviewed -- I've read one of her books several years ago when the country was reeling over the Baltimore riot. I don't necessarily agree that she should subtitle her campus talk "Why Police Are the Real Victims" (she's just asking for push-back with a title like that, in my view), but she does make a good point that people living in crime ridden neighborhoods deserve to be protected and live free from fear in their own homes. I also agree with her in this video that our current generation of young people do suffer from a victim-hood syndrome -- these kids, she says, live incredibly privileged lives on campuses with everything at their fingertips and somehow think of themselves as "oppressed" when they are among the most fortunate people who have ever lived in human history. I agree with those points. I don't think they are particularly difficult ideas to agree with. I'm pretty sick of the elite slice of this current generation coming up with their sense of entitlement, in general. I understand there are some hard-working young people out there, and 2/3 of high school grads don't go to college and have the luxury of protesting a speaker they don't agree with. Two-thirds of high school grads will never have what these young elites will have when they finish their degree that they don't want to pay for.  It really is disturbing, in my view, their obliviousness to their own privilege while they point figures at everyone else about their "oppression."  That's what I call "cry me a river."

no, i think it is pretty fortunate that i turned if off. thanks though.