Reason Magazine: Lisa Kennedy- 'Greg Lukianoff: How Colleges Fight Free Speech'

Source:Reason Magazine- talking to Greg Lukianoff.

"You can get in trouble for saying almost anything these days on a college campus," says Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).

Lukianoff's latest book, Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate, discusses 11 years of free speech restrictions and the how college bureaucrats have hampered open debate and encouraged a culture of uncritical thinking.

Reason correspondent Kennedy sat down with Lukianoff at FreedomFest to discuss the book, his work at FIRE, and what students can do to fight back. 


Held each July in Las Vegas, FreedomFest is attended by over 2,000 limited-government enthusiasts and libertarians a year. ReasonTV spoke with over two dozen speakers and attendees and will be releasing interviews over the coming weeks." 

From Reason Magazine

According to Dictionary education is: "The process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university.

"a new system of public education"

So if education is about learning, then what's educational about shutting up and cracking down on speech that you simply disagree with, even it's hateful and even offends groups that you claim to care about? Seems to me all people could learn from that is that some supposed educators think they know what's best for others to hear and learn about that some people are simply too dumb to figure these things out for them. 

Supporters of what's called free speech zones, Left and Right and not just leftists who are the supporters of political correctness, but the supporters of these zones may say that we need to silence some speech for protect people who are vulnerable or to protect out national morality and American culture, but what they really want to do is to protect people from having to think and act for themselves.