[ExI] outrage

[Dan TheBookMan]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 8:14 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I definitely didn’t see that one coming.  That college campuses
> would be leading the charge to restrict free speech?  That college
> students wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between men and
> women?  That campuses would want “safe zones”?  Had Orwell
> put that in the sequel to Nineteen Eighty Four, I would have
> disregarded it as a joke.
>
> spike
>
>
> Does anyone know if the 'safe zones' etc. were the instigation of far
> left faculty, which then organized students, or were the students the
> instigators?  i suspect the former.

I believe it started outside of academia all together -- or, at least, off
campus.

However, we look further back, we see the Free Speech Movement (in the US)
of the 01960s. That was to open up campuses to more free expression.
Wouldn't that imply that before the FSM campuses were less open to free
expression? And, if so, what we're seeing now is free expression being
re-curtailed. In other words, the history here is not one of since the
beginning of time universities were "free expression zones" and only in the
last decade or two became the domain of speech codes and the like. (This
isn't meant to be a comprehensive history of this. I'm just connecting dots
here. I'm missing many more dots. This is just my first pass at
explanation, so YMMV.:)

This doesn't excuse anything today. The rationale and agents behind the
change are certainly different, for instance.

Regards,

Dan
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