Free Speech: An Excuse to Coddle Assholes and Idiots

"For too long, a flawed notion of 'free speech' has allowed individuals in positions of power to spread racist pseudoscience in academic institutions, dehumanizing and subjugating people of color and gender minorities."

--by Elizabeth Siyuan Lee, the New York Times, "Discord at Middlebury: Students on the Anti-Murray Protests"

One of the many issues surrounding free speech on college campuses is the fact that freedom of speech grants tyranny of the discussion by allowing dominant voices to drown out and overpower those marginalized groups like minorities, who often don't feel like they can assert themselves in a heated debate, especially when slurs (or worse) are being used against them.