University survey find college students are obnoxious fascist radicals

More than three-quarters of Princeton students said it was sometimes acceptable to stop a campus speaker by shouting over them, a recent survey revealed.

Some 43 percent said it was acceptable to block other students from attending talks they disagreed with.

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Even more disturbingly, 16 percent supported the use of violence to stop a controversial speaker, according to the alumni group Princetonians for Free Speech.

Responding to a separate question, 48 percent of the 250 students asked said a speech that uses discriminatory language or that a group finds offensive should not be allowed.

The debate over free speech in academic institutions has been heated in recent years – in March Stanford Law School made headlines after students berated Kyle Duncan, a federal appeals judge appointed by Trump, who had come to give a talk.

Tirien Steinbach, the school’s dean of equity, diversity and inclusion then intervened ostensibly to instill calm, before launching into an impassioned six-minute speech, which she had written down, condemning his life’s work. She was accused of ambushing Duncan, and was put on leave.

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