College Kids Are Abandoning American Values. It’s Going to Destroy Our Democracy | Opinion

The Buckley Institute has conducted this poll for nine years, yet this year, for the first time ever, more students support shouting down speakers they disagree with than oppose this kind of mob censorship. In another first, a whopping 51 percent of students support speech codes, a drastic shift from last year, when a plurality opposed speech codes.

What’s more, 46 percent of students now believe that “offensive” opinions should get other students reported to the university administration. Oh, and more than 50 percent of students literally believe certain topics should be “banned” from being debated on campus.

There’s also an alarming violent twist to the censoriousness rising among Gen Z college students. A whopping 45 percent of students told pollsters it is justified to use physical violence to prevent people from expressing “hate speech” or making “racially charged comments.” This radical, un-American idea is only becoming more popular: Back in 2017, for example, only 30 percent of students supported this same proposition…