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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of people don’t want to take responsibility for their words. Sure, you can say them—as in the instructor won’t kick you out of the class, a gang of students won’t beat you up, the university won’t expel you. But if you say something rude, insensitive, ignorant, or deliberately provocative, the natural consequences are that other people will challenge you, they won’t want to work with you or socialize with you, and the teacher will rightly assess that you are not a productive member of the class, and that might reflect on your grade if a portion of the grade is contributions to class discussions.

So, feel free to exercise your free speech. But understand that there will be consequences. Either adjust what you say and how you interact with people, or accept the consequences. [/quote]

Incorrect. If you deviate from the bounds of “reasonable” conversation in class on a college campus, essentially talking as a Republican, your peers will brand you a bigot or worse.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/evidence-conservative-students-really-do-self-censor/606559/[/quote]

This article is saying it’s not the institution, but a small minority of peers. Fewer than 25% said they would limit a worker and even fewer said campus would be better w/o conservatives. Also, the part about hearing disparaging things about racial groups was less than conservatives, is there a correlation there. If a conservative says something negative about a Black or gay person, then people would hear one thing about the Black or gay person. But, the news would spread and there would be several bad mentions about the conservative. I’m sure people will dispute this, but Trump was president when this was published.

Is it a problem that students are self-censoring? They don’t have to, and can see if there are any consequences. There may or may not be. That is projection.  I think the problem after 2016 is that conservatives are tied into Trump and there are issues of civil rights at stake. That makes people passionate. [/quote]

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