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Originally Posted by livius drusus
I'd like to see some actual evidence just because people bandy this kind of shit about a lot without ever backing it up, but I wouldn't be surprised if state schools have regs on hate speech as well.
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Here's the ACLU's
position paper on campus hate-speech codes at state funded institutions. Unfortunately it's over 10 years old and doesn't really address the statistics anyway. I'll see if I can find more info about this.
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Okay, the
First Amendment Center has lots of good info on this subject.
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'Political correctness'
The Connecticut example, however, raises a far more disquieting issue. The erection of these [speech] codes in the late 1980s and the early 1990s was done, at least in part, in response to dogged pressures brought by groups determined to use the authority of the university to eliminate harassment and discrimination while pressing their own causes. As former university president Sheldon Hackney has observed: “[I]n this kind of argument, one is either right or wrong, for them or against them, a winner or a loser. Real answers are the casualties of such drive-by debate. This may be good entertainment, but it … only reinforces lines of division and does not build toward agreement.”
As so-called political correctness ignited a nationwide debate about what universities could and should restrict, many liberals found themselves in the awkward position of supporting the very limitations on expression that they had fought against during and after the great McCarthy Red Scare of the 1950s and 1960s, and campuses divided into camps for and against. Moreover, states during these years also adopted bans on speakers, most notably those associated with the Communist Party. Hence, a new and left-wing form of political oppression seemed to be replacing an older, right-wing one, with the same effect: The views and voices of some were curtailed.
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