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

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Do Students Believe Speakers With Conservative Objections Should Not Be on Campus?

A fire report published this week found that most college students do not believe speakers who hold various conservative beliefs should be allowed on campus. The Atlantic's Graham Wood was very alarmed by these numbers, and he used them to make a point about the Ayatollahs in Iran. But if you look at the actual study, it actually asks whether people would want someone saying transgender people have a mental disorder or Black Lives Matter is a hate group. It's just deliberately obscures the substance of what is going on here. And also, if you're a journalist, all you have to do is click on a link in the study, right? You're providing the link. That's all you have

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