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Free speech is so last century. Today’s students want the ‘right to be comfortable’

Posted by sdesapio 8 years, 6 months ago to Education
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From the article: "Have you met the Stepford students? They’re everywhere. On campuses across the land. Sitting stony-eyed in lecture halls or surreptitiously policing beer-fuelled banter in the uni bar. They look like students, dress like students, smell like students. But their student brains have been replaced by brains bereft of critical faculties and programmed to conform. To the untrained eye, they seem like your average book-devouring, ideas-discussing, H&M-adorned youth, but anyone who’s spent more than five minutes in their company will know that these students are far more interested in shutting debate down than opening it up."
SOURCE URL: http://new.spectator.co.uk/2014/11/free-speech-is-so-last-century-todays-students-want-the-right-to-be-comfortable/


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  • Posted by Technocracy 8 years, 6 months ago
    One of the most troubling changes on the free speech front is the apparent creation of a "Right to not be offended". Somehow the Political Correctness crowd has created this new found "right" out of whole cloth. It is an obvious attack and severe restriction on the first amendment, but the public doesn't seem to care.
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    • Posted by roneida 8 years, 6 months ago
      If you have never read George Orwell's "1984", you are ready. "Truth is lies, and lies are truth" I think he wrote this in the late 1940's. so prescient as to be unbelievable.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years, 6 months ago
    When I'm there I see those little kids riding their bikes to school in suits. I spent 10% of last year there. I like to think it's a Britsh thing, but I've heard US campuses are changing from when I went was in school.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 6 months ago
    Comfortable unless it's Four Letter Rap lyrics then it's Free Speech!!!!!!!!!!!

    X+y = Zero it's generational. Maybe free tuition for social promotion rejects wasn't such a great idea.
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  • Posted by Slytherin 8 years, 6 months ago
    I recently graduated 2 years ago. My university in the states was not like this UK university. Is political correctness more progressed in the UK? I would be curious to know if all UK universities are like the schools mentioned in the article.
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