“There is a new class of students on college campuses, increasingly varied in background and ideology, who are grappling with the reach and limits of free speech and what it means in the 21st century.'
A recent survey has found college students were split along lines of gender and race on issues surrounding free speech rights and potentially offensive language.
“There is a new class of students on college campuses, increasingly varied in background and ideology, who are grappling with the reach and limits of free speech and what it means in the 21st century,” Sam Gill, Knight Foundation vice president for learning and communities said in a statement. “Studying their views is key to understanding the impact that they may have on rights that are fundamental to our democracy.
A woman stomps on a free speech sign after conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos spoke to a crowd of supporters on the University of California, Berkeley campus on September 24, 2017. A survey released on Monday found that the majority of students valued protecting free speech rights and hate speech under the First Amendment. JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images
The survey's results were also broken down by race. When respondents were asked if people should be more careful to avoid offending those with different backgrounds, the survey found:
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