Study finds many college students abandon their free speech ideals under ideological pressure. Most undergraduates believe marginalized communities deserve extra protection from offensive speech, though these values often waiver when students are pushed by their own strong political ideologies.
Study finds many college students abandon their free speech ideals under ideological pressure
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Study finds many college students abandon their free speech ideals under ideological pressure
When it comes to free speech on college campuses, students are generally reluctant to punish objectionable statements unless the words are highly severe or target minority groups. New survey experiments reveal that most undergraduates believe marginalized communities deserve extra protection from offensive speech, though these values often waiver when students are pushed by their own strong political ideologies. The findings were published in the journal Science Advances.
Students in the ideological center were the exception. Those without strong affiliations to either side of the foreign conflict tended to uphold their free speech principles across all three experiments.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea5427
Have younger people always been this obsessed with morality ? I find that the higher the moral superiority the worse the individuals behavior is to others. If someone is a self proclaimed good person I consider that a red flag
Sometimes, there are things more important than free speech on college campuses. I’m not going to be shedding tears if the KKK isn’t given equal right to espouse their beliefs on a college campus full of Black students for whom racism isn’t just an abstract intellectual debate. Paradox if tolerance and all that.
They couldn’t spell check their study, huh..
This phrasing almost assumes that “free speech” in the US means you can say whatever you want whenever you want. It’s illegal, for example, to call up your neighbor and tell them you’re going to come over and kill them. Whether hate speech is free speech is a matter of debate.
I would really want to see a more general comparison on people’s commitment to ideals under ideological pressure in general. I feel like it’s a bit redundant to point it out when my assumption is that generally many people abandon their ideals under pressure, so it only really matters insomuch as it differs from the general tendency.
The CRT machine at post secondary runs deep
That’s not abandoning free speech ideals
Oh boy another “free speech” study that surveys students about the behavioral of non government institutions.
The study specifically asked students about campus policies and university punishments for professors and students.
Saying that you believe in First Amendment protection against government interference and saying that speech needs to be curtailed in a higher learning institution are not contradicting beliefs.
Society is constructed only on lies, so you have to conduct your assigned role.
Marginalized conservatives have never received that extra protection on any campus, so I don’t really believe that statement at all.
Offensive speech is fine, even if I don’t like it.
Hate speech isn’t.
Yeah, it’s not a surprise when a lot of people use “free speech” and intellectual “debate” as a delivery mechanism for verbal abuse and then on the other hand you have those people doing the bad faith debate are generally people who are very closed minded.
I would be interested in seeing if the actual paper looks at underlying motivations at all, but I’m not clicking that sites links. They’ve been too inaccurate and clickbaity in the past.