Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Professors duty is to teach their students to think for themselves, not to parrot what to think.

As a Gen X guy, the concept of "feeling safe" is an idea I'll never understand. Imagine thinking the world should conform to one's feelings. I was raised to understand life's unfair and nobody is interested in my feelings so I should keep them to myself. I actually experience guilt and the anticipation ridicule if I complain.

Bri, the LAST thing I want on campus is for students to feel "safe" from anyone's opinion. College is where you go to be out from under the umbrella of your parents(whether they like it or not), community, and assumptions, and forced to consider less narrow ideas than you've come to expect to be surrounded with and comforted by. It is a place for intellectual broadening and adventure, and there is no way that is going to occur on any meaningful level without some degree of discomfort. Perfect comfort is not always ideal. I don't want young people to be stagnant; I want them to feel challenged and then do something productive about it. And that does not mean demanding "safe spaces" or saying they feel "unsafe" at every turn.

This will continue on to every ethnicity. This will not go well. To teach young minds that just because someone disagrees, it's ok to lash out. It already is a problem. It's just piling on

Colleges are corporations not educational institutions now day's. Save your money and learn a trade if possible

Robbie is correct on this one. If the Palestine/Israel conflict discussion is part of an educational curriculum like history or an ethic's class it's fine. Faculty should not be publishing any political statements on a publicly funded school website. It's a slippery slope. Student organizations should be allowed to protest outside of the classroom without fear of punishment. Faculty should be able to be advisors to those organizations.

Personal political statements need to be made on personal social media accounts/web pages/etc. School pages should ONLY be for the school or school-sponsored organization. That said, some of the reactions on college campuses, including official statements, to the Oct 7 terrorist attacks against Israel have been the height of victim blaming and are repugnant. The schools should face consequences, including losing grants and endowments, based on those statements the public deems inappropriate.

The WEF's attempt at implementing the Cloward-Piven strategy in Ireland failed when those two questions were resoundingly defeated and Klaus called Varadkar home. This is a version of that. That's why the American press barely covered it - a loss for the WEF cannot be publicized and give people the impression they don't have to accept this.

Universities are supposed to challenge your beliefs and make you think, not make you feel "safe"

The Bill of Rights is meant to protect individual rights. Treating faceless entities like universities, corporations, etc is a huge problem. The supreme court ruled corporations can give unlimited money to politician, because corporations are treated like individuals and money is speech.

I don't think any public university should put out any political statements at all, since they are publicly funded then they should not take an official stand on any political issue!

I'd like a diverse university that actually only allows flying the home country's flag, the American flag. No exceptions.

Solidarity statement are not needed in an Academic setting…

Bri, it’s not doxxing if they signed their names to the letter …

This country dies a little more every day.

A “Critical Race and Ethnic Studies” department is itself a political statement.

California is the home base of woke mutant behavior.

Why not have a debate voicing both sides and let the students decide on their own. Maybe it will encourage people to look into the situation of all sides

Why do I need to know what my college thinks about current politics. Just shut up and teach me. If they want to have a class on certain subjects then do that, but a college publicly making a statement about whatever is going on is pointless

No institution collecting public funds, i.e. taxes, has any authority to infringe on the Bill of Rights. Of course, when has the United States Constitution ever gotten in the way of California’s criminality…

Just as people should not post personal opinions on workplace sites and spaces online, nor should they be allowed to do so on University sites! Same theory. Same problem. Same rules should apply!

For institutions that go overboard on "inclusion", why would they ever feel the need to pick a side politically?

Did she just say that pro-Palestenian speech is being suppressed on college campuses? Does she live on Earth?

When I was born in the 1960s, the free speech fight on campuses was also being fought. Young kids today probably have never heard the name Mario Savio. It's a shame that each generation has to re-learn the lessons of the past, and re-fight the struggles of their grandparents.

Departments should not be political, only educational… no exceptions…

Seems like schools were able to stay pretty non-political until very recently. Why can’t they do so now?

Officially grant certain groups special privileges to foment division.

9:50 - Yes, Brei, we know how selective your memory is!

The idea that a university could craft a "statement of unity" is an impossible mission.

Long way from “While I disagree with what you say, I will defend to the death; your right to say so” I keep pointing this out and haven’t got a good counter argument

So what is the point to go waste your time to fake learn if you are not allowed to use your brain to real think?

To know if it's a safe environment? News flash: your ideas don't need to be safe. If you need to make sure everyone around you agrees with you, specially in an university environment, you don't belong in there. Even more reason not to make any statements on the website, stop this need to "feel safe".

1984 is coming alive.

Web pages should keep it professional. Even open debates have norms and rules. It's a fine line between oppression and freedom.

Well, if professors teach whatever political bias they want, and you as a student do not like it and oppose it, what do you think happens to their grade? Can the student afford a D or C because they oppose the conclusions of the professor? In a perfect world, the professor would measure the validity of their arguments - do you really think this is happening now?

This rule can be looked at in a few ways. The website that belongs to their employer should not post personal messages and ideas. In the classroom or on any personal site, it shouldn't be censored. If someone gets mad, they need to learn how to work through their own personal issues.

Then...how does a political science professor teach? Mute?

Can you imagine putting your personal political views on a corporate site?

Politics should never be part of education because it is inherently divisive. Individuals should be free to express their own opinions but institutions should stay out of it. This should include teachers and professors, who shouldn't be allowed to use their teaching platforms to indoctrinate students to their personal political views.

As a young man in Berkeley in the 60's with the free speech movement, I and my wife have been appalled at the domination of the campus by a WOKE insanity that defines everyone by which checkboxes they are in. Being in the STEM areas, the insanity was limited in the 60's to what were the intellectual mush academic areas, like most of the social sciences and humanities including theology, except economics, where reproducible results and math don't exist. Just a bunch of pathological memes spreading like wildfire that warp thinking. However, checkbox thinkers have taken over HR and the facility and excluded the more rigorous people from the academy. The real-world problem is that individuals have a variety of overlapping distributions of traits (from dumb to smart, innumerate to math literate, socially adjusted to autistic spectrum, productive cultures to parasitic cultures, etc.) all of which exist in all the checkboxes making them worthless for any analytical analysis.

The answer is clear... personal opinions do NOT belong in PUBLIC schools, including college. Public formats ment for school issues & school issues only

Education, not indoctrination. When i was young, professors did not attack your religion, beliefs, or talk politics.

This is like two pampered college kids that somehow got caught going on a bad date every day.

No content-based restrictions on speech. PERIOD.

Anything that comes out of California we dont want....

Commiefornia just can't help themselves 😊

Public schools don’t think

I agree with the male speaker💯. One more I like to add though. Teachers should not discuss these things in their classrooms either. If group of young people wants to talk about these issues or anything political, they meet and talk about it on their on time.

Doesn’t a rule like this go against the first amendment?

When the school picks a side, particularly on a contentious issue around which students have various stances/personal stakes, they automatically affirm some students while encouraging hostility toward others. Don't legitimize that out-group hostility by picking a side.

This is really simple. As a retired Sailor, and current Navy civilian employee, I can say anything I want, as long as I'm not saying it FOR the Navy, or implying that it's the Navy's position in any way or shape. If you put it on your employer's site or forum as an employee, you are at the very least implying that you are speaking for your employer... which you are NOT.

Almost the end of the week and you folks manage to talk about almost nothing everyday it is amazing !

I really don't get Bri - when I went to college 20 years ago (public university in Southern California...granted it was for an IT degree), I really didn't care about "what my university thought." I don't remember ANY of my classmates wondering "geeee, I wonder what the university thinks of Sept 11, or Bosnia, or the Iraq War (Desert Storm)" or anything like that. We just didn't look up to the university (or the faculty) for our moral guidance or our moral outrage. So, yes, I agree with Robbie, the university can - AND SHOULD - put out statements regarding their team winning the sports game, or it's entry into a local parade or whatever is pertinent to the college, AND, professors can teach what they want/need/must according to university and state guidelines, but, darn, the university should not have official statements of things political/controversial on their websites.

I'm so happy when they agree. idk why

Also for America as a whole. "You can't solve a problem with the ways of thinking that created it. "So why not change our ways of thinking?"

Diversity of thoughts is important

What asinine words "woke and wokeness!"

"Better if they don't make those statements. Why do they have to?" Founding fathers clearly thought there was a reason for people to be able to make statements without fear from those in power.

Education and Health Care are Political. Your family systems are too. If we deny this, there is always a big pink elephant in the room. Americans need to mature a bit. A lot.

The government has always had problems with students protesting war. Remember 4 killed at Kent state university Ohio on May 4, 1970 killed by the military in the Vietnam era! Canada took in our conscientious objectors!🌠

I'm so glad I left California 22 years ago, and I hope never to have to go there again.

Watching this HUGE empire try to wrangle a ridiculously diverse population into a common cause is hilarious. Part of us want to deal with injustice. The Capitalists see injustice as a feature, not a bug. (Capitalists rely on class distinction to hold an economic gun to the less fortunate, usually due to an accident of birth. I'm not looking to argue this obvious point.) This is fundamentally unfair. We've thrown off the lies of racial and cultural superiority and we're chipping away at religion, but they have yet to replace it with another common goal. That's why we tried out 30 years of constant war in an effort to create a common enemy. I'm reminded of the Nietzsche quote: "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?" Until we agree on a common goal, be it building a moon base, fixing our infrastructure, stopping (or starting) an ethnic cleansing. Whatever our owners can find to unite us.

So they are going to enact rules that prevent the public from more easily knowing what is going on in the universities; i.e. the "They won't stop giving us funding/donations if they never know what we are promoting." rule.

Does the first amendment not apply in California? I was under the impression that most California taxpayers were offended by how their money was wasted?

Absolutely hilarious…. “Is it right for a student to worry about going into class and have to worry about that teacher hurting their career if they have different opinions” 😮 says every center left and right leaning student in college

Stating one's personal views is one of the the essential and absolute things that defines a Free Country. A well equipped Armed Population is a Shield that protects all of our Rights.

"The application of it will be uneven." Wow, is Bri a right-winger now?

If a class is dealing with a sensitive political question, leave it in the classroom. If the students want to extend the discussion outside the classroom, they are free to do so. The moment a professor post's an opinion on the campus website, it tacitly carries the imprimatur of the university. Colleges and universities are tasked with exposing students to a broad/universal variety of ideas. With college faculties dominated by liberals, conservative students have to fight to be heard. Conservative speakers are attacked, shouted down, and threatened. Your fear that liberals will feel unsafe is laughable with the trend in the academy for the last 40 years.

Yes Bri conservatives too are treated different at universities for their beliefs.

I love this dialogue of both views. Refreshing

4:02 why shouldn’t their funding be revoked if that is what they are teaching? What you said was if they don’t make public what they are teaching in the classroom then they should be safe. I do not agree.

College and university are for education not indoctrination, the tutors can have an opinion but not an ideology, what happened to freedom of speech and individual thoughts

Any school receiving public funds should not be putting out public statements of a political nature. While I'm not against history/political type classes having discussions about current events/conflcts, I think caution should be used when discussing highly charged war conflicts currently unfolding. Lots of opportunities for false information to be disseminated. Often reported details are inaccurate or sometimes entirely false in events like these.

But the ICJ haven’t said that… wouldn’t that make the statement propaganda?? 7:23

can activists find it within themselves to shut their mouths on a website?

Her bias is showing

But ROB: What does Muskegon Community College think about Israel/Gaza?? We MUST KNOW what every college thinks about everything, and they must all take official positions on all matters! Unless MCC gives its official stance, society will crumble. Every publicly funded college must always give every opinion on everything. I don’t even eat my breakfast without consulting with MCC, and neither should anyone else! Today they’re saying cheese Danish.

They have done it ALWAYS with the Press and Hollywood help! And NOW is forbidden? 😂

I have a feeling what Bri considers 'even handed' isnt what the rest of us would consider it.

Pretense to protect students is still a violation of our free speech. Allowed to stand will proliferate into all sorts of arena to become normal. Students ability to think through and be confronted with differing ideas are necessary for a robust students body everywhere.

Can't be attacking the protected class. They were fine when it was other groups but this group is most protected

So if a professor says you shouldn't be hired bc you support genocidal groups & actions, then you would be afraid to say the wrong thing in class. But a professor who supports genocidal actions & groups, or racist things like your skin color makes you oppressed or an oppressor - perfectly OK and no reason you would be afraid to say the wrong thing in that class... Either nobody can give their political views or everyone can. Both sides want certain views punished. I don't get how ppl live with themselves after saying obviously hypocritical things...

Either it is free for all OR none for all. Right now it is extremely biased toward the liberal viewpoints and certain demographics. In my POV, religions and politics has no place in public schools.

I agree with this. Students should be able to come to their own ideas and professors personal opinions should be kept to themselves.

I thought universities were supposed to be bastions of free speech & open dicussion, i can't believe that i've lived my entire life in that illusion. Sort of makes me glad that i couldn't afford to go, seems like it would have been a terrible waste of time & money. People can learn a lot more just by living & observing than by sitting in these thought factories of today. People need to stand up & not be afraid to say things that don't jive with the way the majority happens to think at the moment. It's a crazy mixed up world out there for certain. Ric, ontario canada, i am a died in the wool man who believes 100% in the value of free thought & speech.

Unless it’s a formal statement or policy of the university (i.e. the university board) nobody, including departments, should be making any social or political statements. Theoretical statements in a classroom for the purpose of discourse makes sense. Student organizations should be able to make statements voicing their views whether it’s an LGBQT or Christian student group. Although it gets tricky if they are partially funded by the university.

Feelings m'man feelings, no logical reasoning/ thinking allowed.

I managed to make it through university without anyone knowing where I stood on Israel/Palestine. Guess times have changed.

At what point should higher ed adopt institutional neutrality and use their own personal social media

Making rules to supposedly avoid making someone mad is suppressing free speech. Life can be tough, grow a spine.

Notice how Bri conveniently leaves out the fact that these rules have consistently silenced her political opponents.

Lots of Chinese money and influence at the university levels, with a willing faculty and administration.

Seen from Europe, it seems that California has already gone beyond good and evil. If I was American I would probably wish that California goes independent, creates their own soviet socialist republic and exits the USA. We know how soviet socialist republics finished. It is only a matter of time.

When someone in position in russia making statement they think about that should i say to keep my job. Not what is right. When universities post these things they are thinking what should we say to keep our jobs.

Actually, silencing the truth is also a political move!

Nothing says a professional education by barring all freedom of speech of people that disagree with your idiotic point of view... Truth only holds up so long as it can be criticized

They tried to warn you that they would come for your speech too😅

Thinking like everyone else is not really thinking.

The application of power is always uneven….that’s why less power is better.