lee733•3d ago

Reading a report from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression showed me a big jump in campus speaker disinvitations.

I was looking at their 2023 numbers and saw that 113 speaker events faced serious attempts to shut them down. That's up from 63 just five years before. It made me think about how often a loud group can stop a talk before it even happens. Has your school had a speaker canceled recently?

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pat_park3d ago

Did you see what happened with the professor who was supposed to talk about climate policy at State? A petition got going saying his past funding was problematic, and the college just pulled the plug. It felt like a small group made a lot of noise and the administration folded. In my view, that just means nobody gets to hear the talk or ask tough questions. It shuts down the whole debate before it can even start.

jackson.jenny3d ago

Wait, he actually got disinvited? That's worse.

morgan3161d ago

My friend's school had a historian's talk pulled over some old tweets. The whole thing got scrapped because a few people online got mad, so now nobody gets to hear him. It just feels like a cheap way to avoid a real talk.