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Should free speech be restricted on campus or not?

jt1337 — 2024-10-03 15:27:51 UTC

Yes or no?

jt1337 — 2024-10-03 18:48:31 UTC

Argument:

NO.

Campus is a place to inculcate curiosity. And students should learn to embrace different voices.

True learning can only happen on campuses where academic freedom is paramount-within and outside the classroom.

So, campuses need less regulation of speech and praise academic and speech freedom.

More specifically, classroom is a place where students face difficulties, exchange ideas through argument and thus find their mindset for life.

Students can also craft their own identity by selecting the thought best fit and combining different thoughts.

What's the true learning?

jt1337 — 2024-10-03 19:48:03 UTC

How free speech can help achieve the goal of true learning. The impact of free speech on students

jt1337 — 2024-10-03 19:54:24 UTC

Motivate students' curiosity to different knowledge. And this has to involve free speech.

jt1337 — 2024-10-03 19:55:50 UTC

How do students react today when they face different voices, and what do the presidents do in response?

jt1337 — 2024-10-03 20:04:45 UTC

Grow into distinct thinking individual

jt1337 — 2024-10-03 20:07:49 UTC

Campuses should inspire students to be curious about knowledge and explore different ideas, even it may be contradictory to students' most cherished beliefs.

jt1337 — 2024-10-03 20:09:45 UTC

If free speech is restricted, it will be a barrier to free thought and exploration to knowledge for students as ideas can't be exchanged. Something about traditional classroom style (and it being outdated). So, academic and speech freedom should be praised and even be a near-absolute on campuses

So, free speech should exist within classroom.

jt1337 — 2024-10-03 20:17:53 UTC

Classroom should be more than a place where information is imparted, it should rather be a place where students can face difficulties, exchange ideas through argument and thus find their mindset for life so that students can carry their taste for the give-and-take of argument out of the classroom and into the larger world.

During the process of exchanging different voices, students can test the ideas.

jt1337 — 2024-10-03 20:22:15 UTC

The process of testing ideas helps students develop into distinct thinking individuals, gives students the chances to choose the idea best fit them and craft their own identity based on these ideas.

Counterargument:

jt1337 — 2024-10-03 20:34:09 UTC

Influencers might wind up dictating which ideas it’s fashionable to wear and which should be tossed out, which force students to follow the main trend instead of make the choice themselves.

For example, William Shockley’s opinion of ‘Paying those with low I.Q not to reproduce can increase the national I.Q’ sparked the author's interest in researching the relationship between genetics and IQ and the author argued with him after hours of preparation.

jt1337 — 2024-10-03 21:08:27 UTC

According to Albert H. Hastorf and Hadley Cantril, students only listen to voices that support their ideas.

jt1337 — 2024-10-04 05:36:55 UTC

Moreover, though scholars must be more fearless of the consequence of truth than others, nowadays, both students and professors try to avoid giving speeches that might receive a majority of disagreement to make students feel safe.

The October 7th attack has caused fierce argument on campus between the Pro-Palestine and the Pro-Israel groups.

jt1337 — 2024-10-04 05:47:48 UTC

Presidents give vague statements of their position to avoid criticism, which is similar to the time of McCarthyism.

What should we do?

jt1337 — 2024-10-04 05:48:40 UTC

To Free Speech

jt1337 — 2024-10-06 19:10:49 UTC

Instead of regulate speech, we should regulate interference of speech.

jt1337 — 2024-10-06 20:54:57 UTC

Anyone tries to prevent the speaker from being heard regardless of how noble his reason is should be punished.

To some specific speech

jt1337 — 2024-10-06 20:56:20 UTC

Opinions and speeches that lie in the wilderness beyond the freedom’s protection should not be protected. For example, those who incite violence based on racial should not be banned. While the scope of wilderness must be small, presidents should make clear that education should never accommodate space for genocide.

jt1337 — 2024-10-06 20:56:44 UTC

The traditional idea of a classroom is a place where professors explains as students take notes, while college is just a platform for students to learn skills and a path to a better job. But it's a fatal misunderstanding.

jt1337 — 2024-10-09 20:21:01 UTC

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