{"id":33119,"date":"2015-10-12T02:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33119"},"modified":"2022-06-24T10:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T14:14:22","slug":"the-rise-of-the-censors-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/10\/12\/the-rise-of-the-censors-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of the censors on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/10\/04\/free-speech-advocate-college-censorship-is-damaging-young-minds-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ginni Thomas<\/a> discusses free speech under attack with FIRE&#8217;s Greg Lukianoff.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/923CiviW-hLb0vkFd.html\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe battle over free speech is not partisan,\u201d says a proud liberal whose organization helps a wide variety of clients facing free speech threats. He has spent fifteen years in the field as a fearless advocate who worked at the ACLU before coming to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).<\/p>\n<p>Greg Lukianoff, the President and CEO of FIRE, starts this 20 minute video interview for The Daily Caller by assessing global issues. \u201cThe international situation for freedom of speech is dire,\u201d says Lukianoff, focusing on the emergence of blasphemy laws to not offend Islam.<\/p>\n<p>This harks back to a previous Daily Caller interview with Steve Coughlin, author of \u201cCatastrophic Failure,\u201d who discussed the Organization of Islamic Cooperation\u2019s Ten Year Program of Action to make Islamic speech codes the global speech standard. In America, this would entail making free speech conditional on not defaming Islam, a religion of less than 1 percent of the US population.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/davidthompson.typepad.com\/davidthompson\/2015\/10\/social-justice-broke-my-mind.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Davidthompson+%28davidthompson%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Thompson<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ginni Thomas discusses free speech under attack with FIRE&#8217;s Greg Lukianoff. \u201cThe battle over free speech is not partisan,\u201d says a proud liberal whose organization helps a wide variety of clients facing free speech threats. He has spent fifteen years in the field as a fearless advocate who worked at the ACLU before coming to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,11],"tags":[459,1476,186,47,764],"class_list":["post-33119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-liberty","category-religion","tag-censorship","tag-fire","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-islam","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Cb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74562,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33119\/revisions\/74562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}