Headline: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7/13/2023
Some public commenters said that safe spaces coddle students, a sentiment with which Kim Schubert, school board president, agreed.
"I think there's another side to safe spaces that I find concerning," said Schubert, recommending people look into the book "The Coddling of the American Mind" by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.
The American Prospect, 10/19/2016
Last month, I disclosed the conservative-movement funding, premises, strategy, and practices of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), which purports to protect “free speech” on college campuses, but expends more energy blaming—and chilling—“politically correct” activists and administrators. I also argued, in The New York Times, that “free speech is alive and well on campus,” and that demands for “safe spaces,” “trigger warnings,” and speaker cancellations, while real and sometimes chilling, are far less prevalent and dangerous than FIRE insists. Such offenses often prompt not intimidation and silence but more speech, including criticism from liberals.
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Its major grants come from the ultraconservative Earhart, John Templeton, and Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundations; the Scaife family foundations; the Koch-linked Donors Trust, and funders that sustain a myriad of conservative campus-targeting organizations that include FIRE, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, the David Horowitz Freedom Center (whose “Academic Bill of Rights” would mandate more hiring of conservative faculty and would monitor professors’ syllabi for “balance”), and Campus Watch (which tracks and condemns liberal professors’ comments on the Middle East). [emphasis added]
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