…but:
In less awful news, 95 percent of the students surveyed said that free speech is important to them. However, as I have long predicted and discussed, when you ask Americans if they like free speech, they nearly always say “yes.” But when you get into the nitty gritty details about what kind of speech warrants protection, you discover that some folks (especially college students) are more in the “I love free speech, but…” camp. And I fear the list of exceptions is growing larger by the day.
Not sure which is more dismaying, that they’re unaware of the First Amendment, or that they oppose it. But clearly the Left is continuing its march through the institutions. Which is why books like this one could be very valuable:
Why a father-son collaboration? That’s what I wanted to know, too, so I asked the elder Paulsen, who was a year ahead of me at Yale Law School. Mike reported that he had given a lecture at Princeton in 2006, after which the law professors and college professors at dinner complained about their students’ “goofed-up ideas” about the Constitution. The law professors blamed the college professors, the college professors said “they came to us this way,” and blamed pervasively bad ideas about the Constitution in the culture, the media and even textbooks. Stuck in an airport the next day, Prof. Paulsen killed time writing an outline.
If they can get them to read it. The problem starts in kindergarten, and extends all the way into post-docs.
It’s no surprise that the educational system does not teach the Constitution. Dewey was a Progressive, and their goal was to remove any allegiance to the Constitution and replace people’s desires with a warm and fuzzy mentality that advocated Statism. (Ok, that last part I made up, but that is the result of their 100 year effort.)
Just look at how some people cherry pick the Constitution to advocate giving stuff away and taking away guns but scream for freedom of speech. It’s pure emotionalism.
Of course they support free speech — so say Democrats who demanded laws to censor a movie about Hillary before an election.
That’s pretty much the attitude of “liberals” (and by “liberals” I mean of course “tax-happy, coercion-addicted, power-tripping State fellators”) toward freedom in general. I’ve always preferred Leonard Read’s rubric “pro-freedom” rather than “conservative” or even “libertarian;” but when I’ve used it “liberals” get offended and say something like, “Well, that’s not fair–everyone loves freedom.” Then you quiz them to determine the depth of their alleged devotion to freedom and you get a lot of “buts.” The bottom line is they like freedom, as long as people do what they want them to do.