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Why we want to make your college an UNSAFE SPACE

You don’t need us to tell you that something is very wrong on US college campuses. Universities in the nation that gave us the First Amendment and the Sixties student Free Speech Movement have been besieged by an unholy alliance between a self-raised army of student offence-takers and busybody bureaucrats, willing to ban a speaker or snuff out inconvenient thought as soon as someone cries ‘bigot’.

From speech codes to trigger warnings to the demands that progressive professors be sacked for criticising the identitarian turn of anti-racism and the violent protests against controversial conservatives, stories of this shrieking illiberalism are never out of the news.

Please, do read on, here on the Spiked! website, September 8, 2017.

 

 

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