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Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Survey Says Most College Students Are Clueless about the First Amendment

Last week at Columbia University, conservative pundit Tommy Robinsonattempted to give a speech on mass immigration in Europe. Instead, the event devolved into chaos. Students consistently shouted down Robinson, effectively preventing him from speaking as he Skyped into the campus auditorium from the United Kingdom. He gave up on trying to speak and instead fielded questions from protesters.

“This is our free speech, this is our First Amendment right,” repeated some of the protesters as they shouted over Robinson.

It was clear that many students had a warped understanding of the First Amendment.

To be fair, an argument could be made that, because Robinson spoke before students at a private university, First Amendment protections might not apply. But student protesters didn’t raise the specter of that concern. Indeed, their only way of justifying their actions was to claim that they were expressing their “free speech” rights in shouting down Robinson.

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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Most college students are clueless about EVERYTHING.

Anonymous said...

Well.....4:05 About said it. Sad but true.

Anonymous said...

The snowflake generation. Thank goodness I would never raise my kids to be so weak.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
Most college students are clueless about EVERYTHING.

October 18, 2017 at 4:05 PM

Well, you beat me to it.

Anonymous said...

Are you kidding...Most college students have and continue to be indoctrinated into a socialist system and have No real education.

Anonymous said...

Most of you up here are clueless about the first amendment and a long list of other topics. What else is new?

Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
Most of you up here are clueless about the first amendment and a long list of other topics. What else is new?

October 18, 2017 at 8:01 PM

Up here? You down south or something?

Anonymous said...

They only know what Facebook tells them

Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
They only know what Facebook tells them

October 19, 2017 at 5:50 AM

And their lying demoncratic "leaders".