Why are colleges shutting down free speech?

[Associate Justice PiT]

True story: I was sitting in a "dining hall" (can't call it a cafeteria anymore) at my original alma mater of Western Michigan University my freshman year chatting with a friend from my "residence hall" (because you can't say "dorm" anymore.). One of his SJW friends who "identifies" as Trans-species, human-to-feline, threw a fit when I used the term "bitch" to describe an unrelated person who was a spiteful bitch.

"You just used a sexist slur that's the same as calling a Black person a n***!"

Although I'll always miss WMU and am still sad that's not where I'll finish my degree, I sure as hell don't miss the SJWs and misandrists and made-up, self-proclaimed "minority statuses" that were there.

Many people go to college and come out as liberals. I went into college as a non-judgmental liberal and ended up being dragged to the center. I just wish more people in society were willing to say to those people that your little "species identity" is the most ridiculous thing we've ever heard of.

I have gotten more Conservative in my one year in  college so far

That actually happens your first couple of years of college...and you see all kinds of people at college though I imagine my experience was pretty plain. We did go to having a gay marriage parade to a picket of aborted fetuses the next, though...and people trolling them with folded up coat hangers.

See they even allowed you to protest, but not if your rally was to support guns. Everyone at my college hated professors being liberal and it had an adverse effect but at state schools there's alot of big money coming in from wealthy liberals and the all powerful government.  They're the 1% with the power and we're the 99%.  Let's do something about it.

I really didn't protest...I really had fun talking to all the gay marriage, fetal personhood, and planned parenthood people. There was a strong gun rights community, too. It was a relatively open place. They even supported a fundamentalist rape apologist.

I just don't have the experience with class and advocacy inversion that Republicans have in claiming they are being oppressed by those who refuse to oppress them.

Though there is something about Burke and how the ancient regime liberates people with certainty and how a rigid class/caste ststem guarantees social belonging and structure.

I'm not sure that I agree with the original poster in this thread, but I'm actually wondering why college students need to have "safe spaces".

It seems like everyone is emotionally sensitive these days. There are actually people that experience PTSD-type symptoms from seeing a Trump/Pence sticker or even the name "Trump".

Grow some goddamned skin!

Republicans can be as easy to bait.

Everyone is unique, special snowflake in college.  That seems to be a common theme reinforced among students across every college campus.  It's one of the biggest problems with this phase of SJWism.  You cant tell anybody that theyre wrong because every opinion is automatically valid if you believe it (unless youre a straight white male)

     Feels before reals; your subjective reality is meant to be understood as the unequivocal truth...provided that it is the correct subjective reality for your demographic group. Hence women disagreeing with feminists being accused of having "internalized misogyny", even though their experiences are supposed to be valid too.

[Associate Justice PiT]

I attend one public university (Ohio State) of hundreds in America, but my time spent here has convinced me that the whole issue of colleges shutting down free speech is either massively overblown or somehow magically doesn't apply to us. People protest speakers all the time, sure, (and right-wing groups do too) but nobody seriously expects them to leave or quit over it.

As for the question of guns, we have active organizations on campus that will teach you how to shoot accurately and safely, and help you get licensed to carry. I don't think we've had pro- or anti-gun protests recently, because that issue isn't really particularly salient, especially to young people. Along the lines of gay marriage, while the shouting is continuing, it's basically over and the pro-gun rights people have won.

That sounds very similar to my experience thus far. And I'm a part of several different clubs where there should be numerous SJW's. What gives?

     Honestly, it's a lot like the issue of police shooting unarmed black people. Incidents get reported on pretty faithfully, so it skews public perception of the actual frequency of events. In both cases they are actual problems that ought to be addressed, but not to the extent that someone just following the newscycle would think they are.

[Associate Justice PiT]

They aren't. They're promoting it, but some people are just not comfortable with hearing alternative points of view.

If they can't hear different points of view, they don't belong in college. This is what happens when you bring the lowest of the low into prestigious institutions. Unqualified morons. And they aren't studying engineering. Useless majors like Women's and Men's Studies, etc. I don't see what that major can provide in terms of a paycheck.

It's spreading all over the Western world. A Canadian American Trump supporter wore the hat and a SJW called it "unsafe". How foolish. She thinks her little bubble revolves around her and her type. Wonder what job she'll get in the future?

I dont think government should fund those useless majors at all . Those funding should go to degrees or technical programs what actually gets people a good paying job

Maybe just not fund programs that cause people to be unemployed or pay low?

Like instead of funding degrees which dont get people a good paying job, they should fund trade schools , and fund infrastructure projects, both which can result in good paying jobs

     We do need a lot more emphasis placed on vocational education. The old saw that everyone should go to college leaves its fair share of victims in its wake; people who do not know what they're doing and get degrees that don't really lead anywhere in particular.