Jim Jordan on Campus Free Speech: Students and Faculty Are ‘Forced into Self-Censorship’

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JORDAN: "'The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable.' That quote, taken from the 1974 Woodward report at Yale summarizes the policy that was for years the gold standard of what the free speech on campus should look like. College is a place for young minds to be intellectually bombarded with new challenging ideas. Unfortunately, today on many campuses students and faculty are forced into self-censorship out of a fear of triggering, violating a safe space, a micro aggression or being targeted by a biased response team. Constricting speech that doesn't conform to popular opinion contradicts the First Amendment principles and the right to speak freely without regard to offensiveness."