Go Home You Water-Buffalos You! Censorship and "Unlearning Liberty" at College

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Censorship and "Unlearning Liberty" at College: Q&A with FIRE's Greg Lukianoff - YouTube

Published on Dec 6, 2012

"The...idea that if you just let people talk, it will be this pit of racist pandemonium...is sort of childish and it oversimplifies. But it is a great justification for having a lot of power over speech," says Greg Lukianoff, the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).

Lukianoff spoke with Reason TV's Nick Gillespie about his new book Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate, where he details the slow and steady withering of free expression on America's college campuses.

In some ways, the modern on-campus free-speech movement dates back to 1993's "water buffalo incident" at the University of Pennsylvania, where a student was brought up on racial harassment charges for using the term "water buffalo" as an insult. That case led directly to the founding of FIRE, which "defends free speech, due process and basic rights on campus."

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