As politics have grown more combative in last few years, college campuses — long thought of as homes for open debate — have followed along. At many schools the question of where free speech ends and campus tensions begin has become an important topic.
A new poll from the Knight Foundation and Ipsos finds some growing concerns about limits to free speech among the nation’s college students and offers some insights about where they think the line is between the First Amendment and students’ desires to feel protected.
The most important finding in the poll may be just how important today’s college students believe free speech is to democracy. For all the talk about how today’s students fear that serious debates can lead to hurt feelings, the survey found a strong belief in the need for free speech in the United States. CONTINUED
Dante Chinni, NBC News
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