Summary Of Free Speech Is So Last Century

“Free Speech is so Last Century, “ by Brendan O’Neill, examines the idea that, “students have been rebranded as fragile creatures, overgrown children who need to be guarded against any idea that might prick their souls or challenge their prejudices.” O’Neill explains that students are becoming easily offended, and as a result, they are searching for the “right to be comfortable,” instead of the right of free speech. According to him, students are being taught to conform, and when they don’t conform to other people’s ideas, their ideas are brushed off as “irrelevant.” By deeming those ideas as irrelevant, it creates the idea that college students are acting more like children than adults, due to the fact that children often decide ideas don’t