
A Discussion with the Authors of FIRE‘s ”Scholars Under Fire” Report
The Academic Freedom Podcast
What College Polls Offers Is Unique?
Only a third say that's never acceptable to shut down a speaker or otherwise prevent them from speaking. Survey allows for responses ranging from almost always acceptable to never acceptable and then gives various ways of protesting as options. Only only three quarters say that it's neveracceptable to use violence to stop a campus speech, which is to say a quarter they get it sometimes acceptable. 5% said sometimes most of this, this roughly 20 most of this rough quarter and it's like 23%. They are saying rarely, but they're still saying rarely and I find that concerning.
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