Alan Dershowitz: College Classrooms Have Become Propaganda Vehicles

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DERSHOWITZ: "When I was a student at Brooklyn College in 1950's there was a lot of censorship. It was censorship by the right of the left, it was called McCarthyism and many of us fought against that kind of censorship. Today many on the left who are firghting for their free speeches in the 50's are fighting to deny free speech, and many on the right are saying, 'Wait a minute, we have the right to express our views on college campuses.' I think today's college students think they know the truth. They don't have to hear an opposing point of view -- I'm not saying all students. It's actually a small number of censors, but they can shut down a university. And college administrators haven't been as strong as they should be in standing up to these students. Many of these students are minority students, they are gay, they are transgender, they are women, they are the specially privileged students on college campuses today who are listened to by university administrators under the banner of intersectionality; intersectionality says that all of these groups are oppressed by the same people. And the people who oppress them are Americans, Christians, Zionists, people who have opposing points of view. And so we're seeing increasing censorship on college campuses, not only in public events like mine tonight but in the classroom itself. Classrooms have become propaganda vehicles where captive audience of students are told not how to think but what to think, particularly about sensitive issues like the middle East, the Arab-Israeli conflicts, gay rights, the Black Lives Matter, other hot-button issues, they are told what to think and they are graded on what they think rather than how they think."