Jason Arvak
I’ll go to bed after saying this - what you and I are doing when we disapprove of the speech codes on campuses is that we are actively telling those affected to actively discredit and criticize the idea of speech codes on their own. If enough people do this we can make the very idea of extensive speech codes a source of mirth and those that laud it will not be likely heads of student bodies.That process has not worked well so far. In spite of over a decade of exposure and opposition from the folks at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, speech codes continue to proliferate on college campuses all across America. One major cause of this is liberals' failure to oppose them. Because liberals control academia (surveys reveal upwards of 95% liberal predominance in the largest and most powerful departments, and administrators are overwhelmingly liberal as well), there is no way to effectively counter speech codes without getting opposition to them inside the liberal echo chamber. Yet thus far, liberals in academia seem to be the ones initiating and enforcing the speech codes, using rationalizations and excuses remarkably similar to those you articulated above about the supposed need to shut down anything and everything deemed "hateful" or "inflammatory". So if your position has really changed from that and you really want to join the fight, reassuring me should be last on your list. First on your list should be confronting your fellow liberals over their behavior.
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