Will Whitt of Prager U recently asked students at Cal State LA to talk with him about what socialism and capitalism are. Their answers explain why “Freedom of Speech” is no longer welcomed in liberal universities.
Whether you agree with their politics or not, liberals were staunch defenders of free speech in the not so distant past. In 1977, it was the American Civil Liberties Union that defended the right of Nazis to march through a Jewish neighborhood in Skokie, Ill. Though vilified by some progressives, the ACLU recognized that free speech — political free speech—is an essential freedom that needs protecting.
Jonathan S. Tobin of National Review notes that while the “libertarian position on speech used to be the liberal position,” much has changed. Tobin writes, “They see the individual rights they once zealously defended — when invoked by street protesters or pornographers — as harmful when invoked by corporations or devout religious believers.”
Legal scholar Catherine McKinnon illustrates how the only speech liberals consider protected is their speech. She complains the First Amendment has become the “sword by which racists and corporations buying elections” reinforce injustice.
The left has abandoned the First Amendment.
Watch the video and see why one leftist student called the police to arrest Whitt for “fear-mongering” students. Watch to the end to hear the officer’s explanation to the student why Whitt had the right to be on campus.
