Thursday, May 7, 2015

For many millennials the right to free speech ends where the right to not be offended begins



The results of a recent Pew Research Center poll on free speech should probably come as no surprise in this era of “trigger warnings” and “microaggressions.” But the poll found that Millennials were least likely to support free speech rights, particularly when that speech could be seen as offensive.

The Pew Research Center polled a random sampling of American adults after the Charlie Hebdo murders, asking if publishing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad was okay. Just over 50 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds believed this to be the case, according to the poll — the lowest of any age group....



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