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Many American pundits seem to firmly believe that the country stands at a precipice in which young, left-wing college students and recent graduates are the leading edge of a rising tide of illiberalism that comes in the form of “political correctness” and poses a clear and present danger to free speech and rational discourse.
[...] The alarm about student protesters, in other words, though not always mistaken about particular cases, is generally grounded in a completely mistaken view of the big-picture state of American society and public opinion, both on and off campus.
[...] Since the 1970s, the General Social Survey has posed a question about whether five hypothetical speakers should be allowed to give a speech in your community — a communist, a homosexual, an opponent of all religion, a racist, and a person who favors replacing the elected government with a military coup.
Justin Murphy of the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom aggregated trend data about all five kinds of speakers and found that public support for free expression has been generally rising
(Score: 3, Insightful) by dry on Sunday March 25 2018, @10:49PM
Isn't it as much the right who believe the Constitution is a living document. Some examples includes the idea that the 1st is only about some speech, perfectly fine to ban speech for national security reasons or to protect the children. It's OK to ban whole parts of the population from owning guns because they're bad people. It's fine for the government to ban various substances for peoples own good. It's fine to torture people as long as you're politically correct in saying it is just enhanced interrogation or whatever. Same with locking people up, fine if they're of a certain faith. Treaties are made to be broken. Could go on and on. Everyone wants to interpret things like the Constitution in their own way though the right does seem to be more hypocritical for pretending they don't.