whoops sent too soon - will continue
if there is a crisis of free-speech on campus, are we talking about students / speakers / or faculty speech being curtailed?
who is the fascist "they" doing the curtailing?
The statistics - from over 4000 universities and colleges, don't really bear up. You have isolated anecdotes - there was the book burning by conservative students at Georgia Southern when a latinx writer mentioned white privilege. I am sure you could dredge up countervailing incidents, but overall statistics simply don't bear out a crisis: the crisis, indeed, is coming from governmental overreach in places like Florida and, yes, by Donald Trump, who is setting a very dangerous precedent by tying funding to "free speech" policies per this past March.
1) regarding students, I point you to this analysis: https://www.niskanencenter.org/there-is-no-campus-free-speech-crisis-a-close-look-at-the-evidence/
The point of this, which addresses countercriticism, is this, "The gist of our collective argument was that young people and university students are generally supportive of free speech, that university enrollment is associated with an increase in tolerance for offensive speech, and that a small number of anecdotes have been permitted to set the terms of public debate."
2) regarding speakers: there was the famous issue with Yianniopolous's "Dangerous ****** Tour" if you'd like to line up behind him. Most of the literature regarding stifling of speakers points to issues with this tour. Richard Spencer met with catcalls, again, not sure you want to ride his coattails. BUT, there's the inconvenient fact that in most cases they are indeed allowed on campus despite their repugnant views (legally in most cases they cannot be barred) and more complications still because he and others such as Ann Coulter - another lightningrod - actually seem to thrive on this antagonism.
Anyway, there are plenty on the left who are also on the receiving end of "censoriousness" and you can read about all the various issues here: https://freespeechproject.georgetown.edu/free-speech-tracker/
and analysis of same:
3) regarding professors getting fired - here's a review of that which, again, notes that a relatively small number of firings over speech do not skew to firing over conservative speech. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-poli...rrectness-free-speech-liberal-data-georgetown This while acknowledging that there is a greater preponderance of professors who identify liberal generally in academia.
Finally, I know you won't value this or the vox link, but here's this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/10/15/real-threat-free-speech-campus-isnt-coming-left/
And there is also the fact that the Harper's letter that drew so much controversy literally is an example of the academy self policing.
Sorry, you can cherrypick incidents, but you're going to have to point to a coordinated crisis for me to buy that it's some fascist plot.
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