1,360 students said it’s always acceptable to use violence
After what just happened, I don’t know if any commentary is even needed.
One in three students believe some level of violence is acceptable to stop a campus speech, according to the results of a large-scale survey released Tuesday by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
The survey, which questioned more than 68,000 students at 257 colleges and universities nationwide on a variety of free speech topics, asked: “How acceptable would you say it is for students to engage in the following actions to protest a campus speaker? Using violence to stop a campus speech.”
Two percent said “always acceptable,” 13 percent said “sometimes acceptable,” and 19 percent said “rarely acceptable,” or about one-third of those surveyed.
The timing of the FIRE survey release is almost eerily letter perfect.
The murder of Charlie Kirk was not the action of one man, but of a culture that has been incubated on college campuses, that occasionally gets called ‘liberal’, but has no more in common with liberalism than Al Qaeda does.
Think about these numbers for a moment. From a huge sample size, 2% or 1,360 said it’s always acceptable to use violence to shut up people you oppose.
Over 10,000 college students found it acceptable to use violence some of the time.
College is the problem. Or rather the culture of extremism and indoctrination. The same culture that came after David Horowitz, came after multiple campus speakers, including Ben Shapiro, that assaulted multiple conservative speakers, and now finally killed Charlie Kirk.
Does it end here? Not unless it gets shut down for good.
Article posted with permission from Daniel Greenfield
