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About 73% of GOP and GOP-leaning college students report self-censoring because they fear receiving a bad grade, according to a College Pulse poll. If accurate, this is a terrible and unacceptable result.

nationalreview.com/2019/09/poll-7…
Just to note: this is a big outlier. A 2017 FIRE survey found lower levels of GOP students who self-censor, and FAR lower levels who self-censor for fear of receiving a bad grade.

Note: The 2nd table is just of those who say they've self-censored.

thefire.org/research/publi…
Heterodox's Campus Free Expression survey from 2017 found something similar, iirc, though theirs isn't a representative sample.

Anyway, you can read here why I think students' fears about getting punished by their professors are overblown.

washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
Oh god, the responses. Please, try not to let your first instinct be "Well, they're probably all just racist creationists, haha." These are real people we're talking about, 18-21yo students and we have an obligation to them. No one should feel good about these numbers.
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New from me: Last June, the Canadian government adopted a new definition of anti-Semitism to better identify and combat bigotry. Unfortunately, that definition poses a potentially serious threat to campus free speech.

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Simply put, the new definition explicitly equates anti-Semitism with certain kinds of speech critical of Israel. Supporters insist that this is a harmless innovation, one meant purely to educate and aid in gathering data.

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Supporters said the same thing when the US State Department adopted this definition a while back. Then, in 2017, the Department of Education began applying it domestically. The result has been a host of lawsuits and federal investigations over anti-Israeli speech on campus.
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I confess to being a little bit frustrated with this piece by ⁦@Musa_alGharbi⁩. After describing how the latest research shows partisanship has little-to-no effect on how profs grade, he attributes this happy finding to...laziness. nationalreview.com/2019/09/ideolo…
Fear of anti-conservative bias in faculty grading is a major part of the Right’s critique of higher ed. It is also something that a lot of students are convinced takes place, to their detriment as learners. Evidence that this fear is misplaced ought to be a cause for celebration!
Also: conservatives have insisted for years that they are the victims of rampant partisan grading. Surveys from FIRE, Heterodox, and College Pulse all show this. If the evidence indicates that this fear is misplaced, maybe that should affect how we view other fears by cons.
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I see this a lot. It's the last resort of the people who, when presented with evidence that liberal faculty do get fired for their speech, still want to insist conservatives are the "real" victims. The thing is, conservative profs get away with horrific speech all the time.
Like Mitchell Langbert (CUNY), who argued last year that sexual assault is a male right of passage, and that any man who hasn't assaulted a woman has no place in public office. He later said that he wasn't serious, but I suspect Klinzman wasn't either.

nytimes.com/2018/10/04/nyr…
Or Jason Hill (DePaul), who made the case for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians earlier this summer. He, like Langbert, still have their jobs, by the way.

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