Student Newspaper Says Opposing Views Don’t Deserve To Be Heard
Recently, after a controversy involving bringing feminist speaker Laura Kipnis to Wellesley College erupted, the student newspaper criticized defenders of inviting Kipnis, saying that hate speech isn’t free speech. Kipnis, a critic of Title IX laws which broadly define sexual harassment and sexual assault, was criticized by a presidential commission. In response to Kipnis, the student newspaper wrote, “Shutting down rhetoric that undermines the existence and rights of others is not a violation of free speech; it is hate speech. The founding fathers put free speech in the Constitution as a way to protect the disenfranchised and to protect individual citizens from the power of the government. The spirit of free speech is to protect the suppressed, not to protect a free-for-all where anything is acceptable, no matter how hateful and damaging.”
Source: http://thewellesleynews.com/2017/04/12/free-speech-is-not-violated-at-wellesley/
