Progressives seem to think the right to free speech includes the right to compel others to listen.

Of course they do.

I didn’t find this so obvious until this Princeton student made it more or less explicit, but it helps me understand why so many apparently intelligent people defend the encampments as “free speech.”

If they feel so strongly about their message, the best place to protest is in Israel itself, not on US university campuses. Or better yet, go to Gaza and volunteer.

[quote] Progressives seem to think the right to free speech includes the right to compel others to listen.

You're just NOW noticing that?

I'm sure they'll visit Gaza once it's turned into beachfront property by Jared Kushner.

Yeah Jared Kushner running the ME like that. lol

Oh, and the Right doesn't do the same with protests? Are you living under a rock?

YOU WILL LISTEN TO ME AND YOU WILL BE CONVINCED

All protests are going to be in your face while they last, but the idea of permanent encampments and blocking traffic seem more in favor on the left than on the right. Most right wing protests seem more inward-directed, like a pep rally. They are entertaining each other and showing their flags.

Obviously Jan 6 was different. That was following orders from their Fuhrer who had disruption in mind, but I don’t think it would have happened spontaneously.

These fuckwits are doing the greatest levelling up campaign for post-secondary American education since the introduction of the SAT test after WWII. Except this time, instead of giving lower class Americans access to elite education, it is rendering elite education disqualifying from future employability. Hiring graduates from Ivies is now a demonstrable business risk.

Also, the faculty at Columbia are going to vote “no confidence’ in the President . They are basically calling her a fascist for shutting down an encampment on the campus that protests 18 hours a day indefinitely and excludes other students on the basis of their political opinions. They see it solely from the point of view of the rights of the protestors, not from the point of view of everyone else who might not want to hear pro-Palestinian rhetoric and signs continually for months on end.

Because they either endorse the cause or the idea of progressive protest, they ignore the rights of everyone else