The simplest, most easy-to-understand definition of censorship: preventing free speech.
There, that was easy, wasn’t it?
Now read this, excerped from Adam Sabes’ article at campusreform.org, and see it in action:
A U.S. Representative from Maryland recently announced that he is planning to introduce legislation to police “hate speech” on college campuses.
According to The Diamondback, Representative Anthony Brown (D) announced plans at the University of Maryland to introduce the bill to fight hate speech and hate crimes, explaining that it would require public colleges and universities to have programs and initiatives that define for students “what is acceptable speech and what is not acceptable speech.”
Brown added that to “take away any excuse,” for an institution to not implement these programs aimed at defining hate speech, the government would give the institutions grant money.
Brown also said that he thinks there is a strong correlation between the election of President Trump and the increases in racism and anger that he claims are happening in portions of the white community.
The bill will also prohibit federal funds from going to a public college or university unless it proves to the Secretary of Education that it has “adopted and implemented a program to prevent and adequately respond to hate crimes within the jurisdiction of the institution or by students and employees,” according to Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
Additionally, Loh said that over the course of this year, officials on campus will review policies pertaining to hate speech, and possibly raise the punishments for such infractions.
Translation: I’m a Democrat and I don’t like the fact that Donald Trump is President. I feel Trump is the reason for a lot of racism and anger among White people (racism and anger among non-Whites? Irrelevant’n’immaterial). And, because of this, I want colleges and universities around the country to make it a crime for students to say things that are not acceptable to say – even if others might disagree.
That, folks, is the long version of “preventing free speech” – brought to you by another safe-seat Democrat who won’t have to pay for it (Brown won his last election with 74% of the vote.
It is also where, sad to say, a large segment of the Democrat Party has fallen to.
