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Okay, maybe conservatives are right to freak out about illiberal lefty militancy on college campuses. Today's students are indeed both more left wing and more openly hostile to free speech than earlier generations of collegians.

Don't believe me? There is hard data to prove it.

For 50 years, researchers have surveyed incoming college freshmen about everything from their majors to their worldviews. Earlier this month, the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles released the latest iteration of this survey, which included 141,189 full-time, first-year students attending about 200 public and private baccalaureate institutions around the country.

According to the findings, the current crop of freshmen can lay claim to multiple superlatives. Among them: most willing to shut down speech they find offensive.

About 71 percent of freshmen surveyed in the fall said they agreed with the statement that "colleges should prohibit racist/sexist speech on campus." This question has been asked on and off for a couple of decades, and 2015 logged the highest percentage of positive responses on record...

What speech counts as "racist" or "sexist" is, of course, in the eye of the beholder...

...in general, support for banning speakers from campuses has trended upward over time.

Recent incidents suggest students (and sometimes their professors) may have rather expansive views of what constitutes an "extreme speaker." Among those disinvited or forced to withdraw from campus speaking engagements in the past few years are feminism critic Suzanne Venker, former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde and Narendra Modi, now the Indian prime minister...

One last freshman survey finding of interest: The highest share of students since 1973 now consider themselves left of center. And the highest share of college freshmen ever (or at least since this question was first asked in 1970) call themselves "far left."

All of which is to say that — while I support and admire students' efforts to make the world a better place — I also kind of understand the right's fear that student activism may be disparately used to muzzle conservative viewpoints.

Heck, some students are trying to muzzle liberal and moderate viewpoints. I'm hardly an archconservative, and whenever I write things that college students disagree with, I get a lot of email demanding retraction, recantation, apology, prostration. Some younger readers — not all that much younger than I, mind you — have accused my writing of "taking away" both their voices and their agency, as if free speech were zero-sum.

One parting observation: Remember that these survey questions were asked of newly matriculated college freshmen. That is, students are setting foot on campus already more liberal, more protest-happy and more amenable to speech restrictions than their predecessors.

Which suggests that colleges themselves are not wholly responsible for rising liberal and illiberal tendencies on campus — even if they do sometimes aid and abet both trends.

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

You are a fool. This is certainly not "hard data" -- it's a few surveys, anecdotal at best, unsubstantiated, with dubious connections to the conclusions and often outright leaps in logic. And it's reported in an editorial...an opinion piece.

A pre-determined conclusion in desperate search of a "methodology."

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

this is rich:

VIDEO: Black student accosts white student for having dreadlocks

cultural appropriation!

not to mention loving liberal tolerance and appreciation for diversity.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

this is rich:

VIDEO: Black student accosts white student for having dreadlocks

cultural appropriation!

not to mention loving liberal tolerance and appreciation for diversity.

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ORIGINAL: thompsonx

"Survey finds notable increase in proportion of professors who identify as "far left" or liberal, and declines for all other groups."


It would appear that you favor quotas. Why is that?

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ORIGINAL: TheCabal

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

this is rich:

VIDEO: Black student accosts white student for having dreadlocks

cultural appropriation!

not to mention loving liberal tolerance and appreciation for diversity.

The really wild thing about this is there's an equally bad flip side to this coin called "cultural imperialism."

Basically it's how the left operates: A non-Asian American goes into a Panda Express in the US, and that's "cultural appropriation." A Chinese person goes into Burger King in Beijing, and that's not the Chinese person appropriating American culture. That's cultural imperialism, where American culture imposes itself on China.

People need to get over themselves with this nonsense. The only thing that keeps it from being cartoonish is these people are actually serious.

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A flurry of chalk scrawls supporting Donald Trump on the Emory University campus sparked a demonstration by students who demanded and were granted a meeting with the president, saying the messages made them feel concerned and frightened. At least one of them said he got death threats after the protest.

The students viewed the messages as intimidation, and they voiced "genuine concern and pain" as a result, Emory President Jim Wagner wrote Tuesday, one day after meeting with 40 to 50 student demonstrators...

Students at Monday's protest chanted, "You are not listening! Come speak to us, we are in pain!" shortly before Wagner agreed to meet with them, Emory's student newspaper, The Wheel, reported...

Slogans such as "Trump 2016" were written in chalk on campus sidewalks and some buildings sometime during the weekend. At least one of the chalk messages stated "Build a wall," said one of the students at the protest, Jonathan Peraza, 19, who said he is of Latino heritage and went to high school in suburban Atlanta.

"That is a direct reference to brown people on campus," Peraza told The Associated Press Wednesday, adding that "we feel unsafe on our campus."

"It was an intentional way to rile students up and intimate those of us who feel we are in danger with this presidential candidate," Peraza said. "We do feel that our lives are in danger with his campaign and the violence that he's been inciting."

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

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ORIGINAL: TheCabal

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

this is rich:

VIDEO: Black student accosts white student for having dreadlocks

cultural appropriation!

not to mention loving liberal tolerance and appreciation for diversity.

The really wild thing about this is there's an equally bad flip side to this coin called "cultural imperialism."

Basically it's how the left operates: A non-Asian American goes into a Panda Express in the US, and that's "cultural appropriation." A Chinese person goes into Burger King in Beijing, and that's not the Chinese person appropriating American culture. That's cultural imperialism, where American culture imposes itself on China.

People need to get over themselves with this nonsense. The only thing that keeps it from being cartoonish is these people are actually serious.

a couple of commentators I heard talking about this suggested how the left would be totally up in arms, the naacp would be on the scene and president Obama would weigh in if it had been a white student accosting a black student over straightening her hair and accused her of "cultural appropriation."

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Are you really disputing that mainstream universities in the US are slanting left?