Student on-campus protests are nothing new. What has changed is what is protested. In
the 1960s it was freedom TO speak and today it is freedom FROM speech.
The only free speech is unrestricted speech so that ideas can clash. Challenging ideas leads to better
ideas...silencing opposition leads to stagnation, and uniformity of political ideas is tyranny.
If a speaker is invited to campus to talk about why communism is the way
of governments of the future, and economic success, then his presence on campus
would be better served engaging in challenging debate with students versus campus protest.
Protest is fine to show numbers, but it is a one-way shouting of slogans
and not a two way dialogue of ideas.
Join us this Thursday, April 14th at 7pm PT for the Collegiate Forum at
the Nixon Library to discuss “Is political correctness on college campuses an
enemy of free speech.”
Click here for more information and to register for this free event.
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