Wellesley College Snowflakes Want to Stop Criticism of Their Attacks on Speech

In an editorial written by the College’s newspaper staff, they say they want others to quit saying they oppose free speech.

“FREE SPEECH IS NOT VIOLATED AT WELLESLEY”

Many members of our community, including students, alumnae and faculty, have criticized the Wellesley community for becoming an environment where free speech is not allowed or is a violated right. Many outside sources have painted us as a bunch of hot house flowers who cannot exist in the real world. However, we fundamentally disagree with that characterization, and we disagree with the idea that free speech is infringed upon at Wellesley. Rather, our Wellesley community will not stand for hate speech, and will call it out when possible.”

That probably sounds all noble and stuff to a twenty year-old student. The trouble is that the very next paragraph lists the kinds of speech that will not be tolerated:

Wellesley students are generally correct in their attempts to differentiate what is viable discourse from what is just hate speech. Wellesley is certainly not a place for racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, transphobia or any other type of discriminatory speech. Shutting down rhetoric that undermines the existence and rights of others is not a violation of free speech; it is hate speech.”

Adults know that children and other leftists used those terms listed above to shut down conversation. They hurl charges of racism, etc. when they can not defend their closed-minded fascism. We sometimes laugh about it.

But these kids take it seriously. They think they have the answers to the problems of the world – but they not only don’t have answers, they don’t have questions. Any person who asks a question they find uncomfortable will be charged with hate speech. It’s really sad that this attitude is so common on campus. Many of the professors feed the problem, telling students things that are simply untrue.