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 Study finds decrease in support for free speech among strongly liberal and LGBT students
Graham Piro - Staff Reporter •November 6, 2018

Previous study had pushed back on perceptions of ‘left-wing McCarthyism’

Nearly 20 years ago, Smith College student Erin Dow conducted a study about students’ views concerning free speech. She found that students who identified as “strongly liberal” were more tolerant of free speech than students as a whole.

Many years later, student Julie Voorhes and government professor Marc Lendler conducted a follow-up study as part of Voorhes’ senior thesis at the women’s college.

It asked students similar questions, and found that students identifying as strongly liberal were becoming far less tolerant of free speech.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/smith-college-study-finds-decrease-in-support-for-free-speech-among-strongly-liberal-and-lgbt-students/