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17. There Is No “Free Speech Crisis” On Campus – and the Latest in Fox News vs Democracy

Is This Democracy

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Why Is the Right Attacking Universities?

Vivian: It's not woke college students that the right wing in particular is attacking. College students are a great scapegoat because they wear funny clothes and they look, you know, they can like look have silly hairstyles and stuff. But the thing that is actually being attacked here is something that is truly central to democracy, which is the free exploration of ideas and truth. When truth is being freely pursued, uncomfortable facts come out. And particularly for pro authoritarian political figures, that becomes a big threat to them. This is a common approach for authoritarians. Why is the right in this country of attacking universities the same way that Putin attacks universities in Russia? No one's asking

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