Feigning Free Speech on Campus
In this article, Greg Lukianoff reports on the poor state that our first
amendment right is represented in Universities. While in classrooms, students
are taught the purity of the right to speak our minds and the struggles that
had to have been endured to obtain this right. But the moment we leave the
classrooms, our rights are stunted in such a way that, in the more private
universities, we are less likely to say something or even, in the case of the
Yale T-shirts, poke fun at the other universities without offending people of a
certain demographic. Even though it was F. Scott Fitzgerald, who originally
said, “I think of
all Harvard men as sissies,” the students of Yale University were restricted
from putting this quote on a Tshirt to wear to the annual Yale vs. Harvard
football game. Freedom of expression is a double edges sword in that, if we are
to promote it within a classroom, then we shouldn’t stop at the door.
Feigning Free Speech on Campus
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