Seems so ironic given that years ago universities in the US considered themselves strongholds of free speech,students fought for it with protests, and now they've gone in the complete opposite direction, with students utilising 'safe spaces' etc to protect themselves from all matter of 'triggers' and bogey men. Now they fight for freedom from free speech.
There is an organisation (I forget the name) in the US working with Universities who's sole aim is to get public speakers that students find offensive disinvited if a certain number of people kick up a fuss.They also turn up at events and have people tick boxes on a card which lets them know if the lecture they just attended caused students 'Minimal', 'Moderate' or 'Maximum' offence. There is also another organisation (again, the name escapes me) that monitors this behaviour of afore mentioned organisation to figure out how many people are being 'offended', and to tally up what all this shit really means with regard to the current situation with free speech in universities.
To top it all off, at one US university, a speaker who came in to talk about the fact that if some students could have 'Safe Spaces', then other students should be able to have 'free speech spaces' was 'disinvited' after it was deemed he would have caused too much offence on campus.
