Shocking: 40% of millenials want speech censored

Daily Caller story based on Pew Polling.

A new Pew Research Center poll shows that 40 percent of American Millennials (ages 18-34) are likely to support government prevention of public statements offensive to minorities.

It should be noted that vastly different numbers resulted for older generations in the Pew poll on the issue of offensive speech and the government’s role.

Around 27 percent of Generation X’ers (ages 35-50) support such an idea, while 24 percent of Baby Boomers (ages 51-69) agree that censoring offensive speech about minorities should be a government issue. Only 12 percent of the Silent Generation (ages 70-87) thinks that government should prevent offensive speech toward minorities.​

And colleges are now getting targeted by them.

Did you see the story about Smith College? It's deplorable.

No I didn't. I've seen stories on UNC, Yale, Mizzou, and a few other colleges, but what's going on at Smith?

A student group is holding teach-ins and only allowing press that is friendly to their activism. To receive credentials to t he event, a reporter must agree to include in the article a statement of support for the group's goals. Utterly despicable.

I'm pretty sure Fascists had the same press policy in Italy.

I suppose these kids were raised by parents who'd been told to "never say no" or they wouldn't assume that college administrations would just buckle and fold.

If you missed the awesome Fox Sports coverage of the hate crime screw up at Vanderbilt, it's hilarious.

Now try asking them about flag-burning.

That's offensive speech to virtually all Americans, including the thousands and thousands of blacks, Latinos, Native Americans, Filipinos, Arabs, Jews, women, and gays who have died fighting under our flag in foreign lands. There are 15,000 foreigners in the US Army alone, over a hundred of them Germans. The Navy and Marines have 36,000 foreign-born personnel. They come from all over the world, and even places unknown (in blue in the chart below).



Burning the flag disrespects them, and by extension all of humanity, even the bits of it we haven't located yet.

12 percent of the silent generation are senile and forgot about that crazy war to stop fascism that they or their families were in. Otherwise it would be zero percent from them.

I would send my kids abroad at this point. US university culture is a circus.

On the other hand, that 60% of millennials don't favor censorship is a blessing.

Fascism is liberalism. Just like it was under Mussolini and Hitler and Mao and Lenin/Stalin and even Palpatine.

The 20 best conservative colleges. Texas A&M made the list.

With so many academic institutions losing their collective minds, these 20 schools might become the last bastions of sanity and reason, even for liberals, as place where people can dissent, debate, and analyze issues.

Fuck a university. Community College is (generally) taught by folks who have actual real life work experience in the field they teach. Universities put the students in debt for years, debt that is tough to pay off working at Starbucks with their 12th Century French Basket Weaving degree.

Woodrow Wilson under attack at Princeton for supporting segregation

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34883289

Many European universities will teach US students for free (or almost free).

He didn't just support segregation, he gave it a rebirth. Most of what the Civil Rights movement was about was removing Wilson's policies from government and public life.

Yes, but how many European universities could even compete with a small American bible college at any real sport? How many of them go pro?

Liberalism is amental illness. Stop making fun of it.

It seems like they are taking a page from the republican party handbook.

OMG do you realize what you just said? Fascism and liberalism are direct opposites dumbfuck. When you are this confused about the meaning of words you really need to stop and educate yourself. I am serious. If you think fascism is liberal you are not using the same terms everyone else is.

Fascism is to the left of liberalism. It's a blend of Marxism, socialism, anarcho-syndicalism, and futurism.

Not shocking in the least.

We know you do not know the meaning of the words you type.

Want to discuss the person history of Mussolini for the next three weeks? I'm up for it.

Did you know he stabbed a girl in elementary school and laughed about it? She was in his way at the water fountain. From many of his other traits, such as glibness, superficiality, and pomposity, he was probably a sociopath. He was also an ardent Marxist raised by Marxists.

Clarification, if needed: I resent the notion of belonging to the Millennials.

If it makes you feel better, so do my kids and several of my coworkers (though some of them are actually proud of being part of that generation).

A number of years ago I was relieved to find out that I wasn't a Baby Boomer.

I really don't think that's the correct range for Millennials (although really it's all a bit silly, there will be behaviorial overlap). I didn't grow up with the same ubiquity of certain technologies like smart phones or wireless Internet or un-pixellated games the way someone born in 2000 pretty much has. I also notice a lack of "Generation Y" in gturner's excerpt, which is not a bad thing because that was a pretty stupid filler name anyway.

And only 30% are eligible to serve the country. Frightening.

No they are not. Not in America. There is no difference between a liberal and a fascist in America.

That's the context of the conversation here. Not liberal in the classical sense but liberal as in Democrats, leftists, communists, socialists, you, and of course the other fascists in America today.

You don't have to be a fascist to be an authoritarian.