According to a new global Pew Research Center poll, nearly half of America's millennials think the government should prevent public statements being made that could offend minorities.
The numbers went down among older poll respondents:
Millennials (ages 18-34), 40 percent;
Generation X (ages 35-50) 27 percent;
Baby Boomers (ages 51-69), 24 percent;
Silent Generation (ages 70-87), 12 percent.
Despite the results with the younger generation, Americans as a whole were less likely to say that the government should be able to prevent speech, reports Pew, and were more likely than people in other countries to believe that way. Two-thirds of Americans believe people should be able to say offensive things, but among 38 nations polled, a median of 35 percent said speech should be not be regulated.
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8 comments:
I'm sure these younger ones will think speech should be regulated/censored until it's theirspeech being censored.
I did not know 40% was a majority that means they all agree with cencorship.
This worked well under Pol Pot.
"The Khmer Rouge leadership boasted over the state-controlled radio that only one or two million people were needed to build the new agrarian socialist utopia. As for the others, as their proverb put it, "To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss."[36]
Hundreds of thousands of the new people, and later the depositees, were taken out in shackles to dig their own mass graves. Then the Khmer Rouge soldiers buried them alive. A Khmer Rouge extermination prison directive ordered, "Bullets are not to be wasted." Such mass graves are often referred to as "the Killing Fields".
public/government schools educated these mush minds. for those of you who continue to support this system; are you satisfied now??? this is your doing.
The Founding Fathers knew this would be a slippery slope. As rights are carved away it opens the door to censorship for any reason, including political. Be careful, America!
Im for taking every one of these sissies, ninnies, limp wrists, non-working, PC blow hard's and giving all of them a swift kick to the keister. Then tell them if they don't like it go live in Syria where they really don't give a %&^@ about their free speech. Many people have gone above and beyond their civil duties to protect the rights that we hold dear and if they want to censor speech show them the door and let them wreck some other county.
Maybe the millennials would like a mandatory phone app that prescreens every spoken and written word.
The young ones have not seen a full cycle yet. Once they see behind the curtain they will not ask the government to do anything.
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