Campus censorship has become a special avocation among the progressive left.
Fifty years ago, that statement might have implied that liberal students were the ones fighting censorship, that they were the ones speaking out against the censoriousness of their conservative classmates and institutional brass.
Today, it means the opposite. If it’s politically charged or can hurt your feelings — or even if it can do neither of these things but can nevertheless serve as a pretense for cultural attacks — campus progressives are sure to police it.
The Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) recently reviewed available data tallying more than a decade’s worth of student blowback against guest speakers whose views they haven’t liked. The data, compiled by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), tracks the number of organized attempts to have some controversial speaker or other disinvited from their scheduled engagements on college campuses nationwide.
To absolutely no one’s surprise, the left curb-stomps the right when it comes to censoring — or, rather, trying really hard — to censor speakers. For the period spanning from 2000 to 2014, progressive-left protests erupted 160 times, successfully getting a guest speaker banned from appearing on a campus in 49 of those instances.
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