At Wellesley College, only approved speech is welcome
By Bruce McQuain
Wellesley College has decided that “free speech” that infringes on another’s “liberty” (as they choose to define it) is inappropriate and should not be allowed on campus. To be precise, six guardians of truth, justice and the Wellesley Way (i.e. the faculty members of the Commission on Race, Ethnicity and Equity, aka CREE) at Wellesley use this as their standard (taken from the statement they issued):
However, as historian W. Jelani Cobb notes, “The freedom to offend the powerful is not equivalent to the freedom to bully the relatively disempowered. The enlightenment principles that undergird free speech also prescribed that the natural limits of one’s liberty lie at the precise point at which it begins to impose upon the liberty of another.”
http://www.qando.net/2017/03/30/at-wellesley-college-only-approved-speech-is-welcome/
