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u/Hailanathema · 12 pointsr/slatestarcodex

I don't understand how the author here can be aware of who FIRE is but not think political correctness on campus is a huge problem. Setting aside student-on-student or person-on-person criticisms the vast majority of U.S. colleges have policies that substantially restrict protected speech by students (which is unconstitutional, if a public university, or generally a contractual violation, if a private one).

Getting my data from FIRE's Spotlight on Speech Codes 2016, methodology can be found in the link and there's a full pdf available on FIRE's website.

49.3% of surveyed institutions have policies that unambiguously infringe on students 1st amendment right to free speech, another 44.1% have policies that could be interpreted to suppress protected speech or clearly suppress narrow areas of protected speech, 5% of universities have policies that don't restrict protected speech, 1.6% of universities make no promise of free speech and are not legally obliged to provide it. These numbers are, fortunately, improving but universities stated speech codes are just the tip of the iceberg.

For anyone interested in this stuff Greg Lukianoff's Unlearning Liberty is required reading.

u/nickb64 · 1 pointr/TiADiscussion

It's on kindle and on audible. I originally listened to part of it as an audio book, which I had downloaded because I wanted to see if it was good before I bought the kindle version. I might actually still have the audio files, though distributing them would be less than legit.