In the past year more colleges and their students have been protesting...

In the past year more colleges and their students have been protesting, and subsequently rioting to stop individuals from speaking on "their" campuses. These actions taken to disrupt and ultimately silence different opinions is a clear sign of fascist/authoritarian/totalitarian-ism. Which is almost ironic as Universities are known for their liberal practices, such as questioning ideas new or old.

Do the recent changes with how the youth react to different opinions speak on how society might become in the near future as these very people step into the roll of leading the nation? Or would you argue that this is common for younger generations, and they change when they "grow up" by entering the real world?

I ask this because of the more recent event with Milo and Berkeley, and the protesters who rioted until Milo's event was shut down. Disregarding Milo's opinions, and political beliefs these type of situations keep arising and punish more people then we may realize. Some examples would be Condoleezza Rice, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Why do college campuses think that limiting speech is a necessary sacrifice? Is it to protect the individual, or to protect inclusiveness? Is limiting the rights of everyone morally justifiable if it hampers everyone?

Other urls found in this thread:

campusleadership.org/?ID=7805
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

>this thing i just noticed represents a change in all of society

>Is limiting the rights of everyone morally justifiable if it hampers everyone?

Meant to be.
Is limiting the rights of everyone morally justifiable to protect a select few?

Well in general everyone in the US deems it essential to get a degree at University in order to make it in life. They are regarded as the highest institutions for learning. That being said, if they are promoting the idea that opinions can be forcefully silenced what would stop most of them from not believing that?

Also the trend for schools to become less and less diverse in thought has been creeping around for a while now.

So much that it has even swayed many schools in Massachusetts/New England to have a biased by hiring only liberals. This trend has been going on since the 1990's
campusleadership.org/?ID=7805

That leads to hearing one side of an issue which would make an "echo chamber" much like /pol/

Uni's are some of the biggest influences when it comes to our youth, and society seeing how we place intelligence so high in regards to respect.

>Why do college campuses think that limiting speech is a necessary sacrifice? Is it to protect the individual, or to protect inclusiveness?

To meet the demands of its student body as a guild made up of and paid for by these students, which is what a Western university is historically speaking. A college is not some kind of neutral soapbox for everyone with an opinion but an institution that attracts membership by taking their tuition and using it to hire lecturers, fund research projects, and provide for examinations that will give students some form of accreditation. Campus speech boils down to not allowing the government to restrict what views its students wish to promote and study, not whether or not they themselves can promote one opinion over others.

>they are promoting the idea that opinions can be forcefully silenced
You're arguing from conclusions. No university charter says "we believe that opinions can be forcefully silenced." On top of that, the actions of a segment of the student population don't reflect the policies of the institution.

This. Throughout history College students have been a large source of protestors and people trying to change society. In an example coming from American history, the Counterculture movement in the 1960s was largely college students and young people. See, Columbia University demonstration.

I can agree to that for private schools. As for schools using government funding, shouldn't they have to follow the constitution and allow free speech?

Most schools now have "free speech" zones which limits where people can speak openly. Limiting people to where they can talk, give speeches, etc and where they can't.
Not to mention the advocacy of stopping hate speech is becoming more frequent.
The only difference I see this time is that it is the youth who are trying to impose more restrictions on everyone else, rather then advocating for more freedoms like they did in the past.

Study the late 1960's and early 1970's university atmosphere if you think this is remotely new.

Back to /pol/ faggot, you're clearly illiterate in history.

Thank you based Trump

damn, didn't know they had twitter 25 years ago

Do you even know what Weather Underground was? Clearly not. Go away.

Can't wait for the next round

This, I feel ashamed over reading as much as I did.

>I can agree to that for private schools. As for schools using government funding, shouldn't they have to follow the constitution and allow free speech?
Depends on the nature of funding, meaning no they don't. They're not government institutions, and are simply there for the benefit of the republic in offering somewhat subsidized or easily available higher education.

This is entirely an issue between campus political activists.

Why are people trying to spin this into free speech?
Milo was never told he couldn't speak.
The students did not want.
It's like telling a Jehovahs wittness to fuck off your lawn

>Why are people trying to spin this into free speech?
Current politics is all about aesthetics. You can't just report on facts with academic disinterest anymore, you gotta sell a story, preferably one that ties into a larger meta narrative. It's the equivalent of taking a screenplay, licensing franchise characters to replace the major roles and refocus the story towards things the common denominator likes, and then adding in a "I'm here to talk to you about the Avengers initiative" cameo to tie it neatly into a cinematic universe.

This. The Illinois Nazis never butcher about their frozen peaches when all of Skokie came to protest their parade. Neofascists are such whiny pussies.

The curse of youth: Boundless energy and a porous brain to absorb all the knowledge they could crave, yet no maturity or sharpness of mind in order to turn anger into policy.

It is no surprise that many conservative philosophers, pundits, writers, etc.. Openly admit that in their teens and twenties they were Marxists/Liberals/On the cusp of whatever revolutionary movement of the generation.

I believe that the over-abundance of global media has simply bombarded society with so many different messages and events that it is far more tiring to the mind now than it ever has been before. We're inundated with info on a daily basis that the human brain a hundred years ago might receive in a year.

I could be wrong, but I think the problem is that people are rioting to shut down free speech. Not boycotting, but rioting and threatening violence.

Some students wanted him to speak. Cucklets shat their pants in livid fury and stopped him. If they truly respected free speech they would have allowed the fag to hold his stump speech or whatever and ignored the conservative students

Leftists don't believe in free speech, they just use it as a way towards an end, which is having enough political power so that they can shut down anyone they don't like.

Hol up so you be sayin the students seized the means of learning?

>As for schools using government funding, shouldn't they have to follow the constitution and allow free speech?

No more than a corporation, which is to say not at all. The US gov't funds research programs in state schools and private laboratories across the country for the purpose of developing beneficial R&D and breakthroughs in science and medicine. It would be kind of ridiculous to pull the plug on things like discovering new elements or engineering new energy tech because some literal and figurative faggots had a turf war in the vicinity of an undergrad lecture hall.

And reported

This

A few bodies would go a long way towards shutting this unrest down

>Please do not start threads about events taking place less than 25 years ago.

This is >>/pol/ take it there.

This is also a riot. These things happen when people aren't happy with the government, society, or even other people. The past week was just the spark to the powder keg that was building between the right and left during the past election season. The language from both sides has been hostile and demonizing so this shit was bound to happen. But go blame Leftists or whatever the fuck.

NO UNIVERSITY WANTS THE GRAVY TRAIN DERAILED

this

Kent state only increased pressure against the vietnam war, not the other way around

>We need to stop all these violent riots.
>Let's shoot them all.

C'mon user, you're smarter than that.