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Wednesday, March 06, 2019

Pollak: Students Want College to Be ‘Political Utopia that Doesn’t Allow for Dissent’

Monday on MSNBC’s “Live,” Breitbart News’ senior editor-at-large Joel Pollak discussed President Donald Trump’s plan for an executive order “requiring colleges and universities to support free speech if they want federal research dollars.”

When asked if government intervention can change cultural problems on campuses, Pollack said, “I think the real answers are yes and no. So yes insofar as universities that have these speech codes, especially public universities, really shouldn’t have them—they’re arguably anti-constitutional. And as federal taxpayers, we should not want our money going to universities that do this kind of thing, especially if they are public universities. So you could increase tolerance, you could decrease the use of these speech codes by using federal grant money as leverage.”

He continued, “Broadly it requires a much bigger effort.

I think the problem is oddly generational.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Free speech should be exactly that expressed freely. Is is not a privilege but a god given right reinforced by our constitution. There should never be any such thing as free speech zones, the whole country is a free speech zone.