| ...The recent student demonstrations at Auburn against Spencer's visit ‐ as well as protests on other campuses against Charles Murray, Milo Yiannopoulos and others ‐ should be understood as an attempt to ensure the conditions of free speech for a greater group of people, rather than censorship. Liberal free-speech advocates rush to point out that the views of these individuals must be heard first to be rejected. But this is not the case. Universities invite speakers not chiefly to present otherwise unavailable discoveries, but to present to the public views they have presented elsewhere. When those views invalidate the humanity of some people, they restrict speech as a public good.... |