It has been quite a while since I was in college, but I have seen a fair amount of evidence of the brainwashing going on now, where they are desperate to fit in and cannot have a conflicting opinion without being attacked, where guest speakers who want freedom of speech are just SOOL without rude children interrupting, and overall, it's a massive circus trying to introduce these slacker children to any idea that involves freedom of speech instead of towing the PC line.
So, your 'evidence' is that speakers who are propagandists, who want to tell lies, who want to spread hate and false ideology and support harmful interests, are treated negatively?
I know there's an old idea about 'all speech being worth hearing, and sorting out the truth'.
That comes from a time when there was an assumption that all such speech was 'in good faith' trying to do good; it comes from a time before the amount of powerful harmful interests, intentional propaganda, techniques like 'the big lie' to use repetition to 'win' instead of rational consideration.
There's a practical consideration here: if 'all' speech is equally worthy, how do you have auditoriums of listeners for *everyone* to speak to? You can't. So there has to be filters on who gets to speak. And why shouldn't those filters involve things like excluding propagandists, proponents of harmful things?
I recognize there's a risk to where the wrong things become 'accepted' and legitimate criticism is silenced, and some ability to be heard needs to be protected. But not every denial of an auditorium, not every time the audience criticizes, are silencing truth. There is also a danger of when liars are given too much of a platform to spread lies.
From what I've observed, the culture on college campuses is very different now, where you WILL be attacked if you attempt to exercise free speech. Hopefully it is only verbal, but if your aggressor gets the internet involved, it gets worse.
This is observable, and especially so with children at college who still live under the delusion that their actions don't have consequences. Have you even noticed all the idiot protestors with nothing in the game (because they aren't black) who act like rabid animals? It takes almost nothing to get these wallflowers riled up because they have no spine, then they WHINE when someone thinks they should be arrested for breaking the law.
One thing I notice about all the defenders of lies, propaganda, corrupt speech, is that they never address the flaws in that speech, they always whitewash it simply referring to it as 'free speech'. They're abusing the term 'free speech' to use it as cover and hide the problems with the speech they defend.
No, I haven't noticed those idiot protesters who act like rabid animals much. Most of the vandalism, done by 1%, seems to be from outsiders who are against the protests. What I see are good Americans, being good citizens, opposing injustice, a good cause, making an effort to bring improvements, to be applauded.
You talk about them getting arrested for breaking the law. I saw a protester not breaking the law shot in the head with a rubber bullet, causing brain injury. I saw protesters at our nation's capitol not breaking the law violently dispersed to let trump grab a bible from a church without permission for a photo op. I saw this man not doing wrong violently pushed to the ground:
The man suffered a severe head injury after being pushed by officers enforcing curfew.
www.bbc.com
Here's the police statement describing the incident: “a 5th person was arrested during a skirmish with other protestors and also charged with disorderly conduct. During that skirmish involving protestors, one person was injured when he tripped & fell.”
The claims I see like the ones against the poor victims whose free speech is violated, are gibberish. Falsehoods. Distortions. Defending wrong. Trying to make standing up for things that are right look like oppression.
