Safe spaces a 'recipe for fanaticism,' Hoff Sommers claims
Tyler Arnold
Tyler Arnold
Campus Reform Intern
@TylerArnold18
on Oct 14, 2016 at 12:06 PM EDT
At a Heritage Foundation discussion panel Thursday, Christina Hoff Sommers discussed the deterioration of academic discourse in recent years, blaming it on entrenched liberal ideologies.
"Intersectional feminism," she claimed, has devolved into tribalism and the bullying of whites and males, leading to opinions being evaluated based on who expresses them, not their underlying logic.
Suppression of free speech, whether it’s designated free speech zones, safe spaces censoring speech, or students disrupting events, has become commonplace on college campuses.
At a Heritage Foundation panel discussion Thursday examining modern-day violations of the First Amendment, panelist Christina Hoff Sommers put the violations of free speech on campuses at the forefront of her discussion, saying that she has witnessed a marked deterioration in academic discourse over the years she has spent touring college campuses.
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