Showing posts with label speech codes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label speech codes. Show all posts
George Will: Obama Regime's War On Campus Speech
'Alice in Wonderland' coercion. Barack Obama, vowing to elevate Washington to the level of his
fastidiousness, came from Chicago, where the political machine
inoculates itself from scandals by the proliferation of them: Many
scandals mean merely cursory scrutiny of most. Now, notice the scant
attention being given to an assault on civil ... MOREJane S. Shaw: The 'P.C.' Dumbing Down Of U.S. Schools
Campuses succumb to groupthink. U.S. colleges and universities are drowning in a sea of “political correctness,” and many of higher education’s “best and brightest” don’t recognize the danger. Indeed, speech codes and groupthink are so prevalent on American campuses that we now take them for granted. Instead of meekly accepting the ... MORESpeech Codes: Biggest Scandal On College Campuses Today
by Greg Lukianoff. Today’s conventional wisdom seems to be that university speech codes
banning “offensive” expression on campus are a distant relic of the
heyday of political correctness in the 1980s and 90s. But in truth,
speech codes—university policies prohibiting expression protected by the
First Amendment in society at large—are nearly ... MORE
Greg Lukianoff: Feigning Free Speech On Campus
Our political correctness zones. Despite high youth voter turnout in 2008 — 48.5 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds cast ballots that year — levels are expected to return to usual lows this year, and with that the usual hand-wringing about disengagement and apathy among young voters. Colleges and universities are supposed to be bastions ... MORE
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