Two-thirds of Americans say colleges and universities aren't doing enough to teach young Americans today about the value of free speech.
Democrats, African Americans, and Latinos are more likely than Republicans and white Americans to believe that hate speech is violent and allows majority views to crowd out minority viewpoints, that supporting a racist's free speech right is as bad as being a racist, that people who offend others with their ideas have bad intentions, and that we can simultaneously ban hate speech and protect free speech.
Americans provide a strong endorsement of free speech with 67% who agree that "Free speech ensures the truth will ultimately win out." About a third do not believe that truth can prevail with the free exchange of ideas.
A variety of campus protestors and social justice activists have argued that society can prohibit hate speech while still protecting Americans' First Amendment rights to free speech.
The survey finds that a majority of Americans agree with the idea that "Society can prohibit hate speech and still protect free speech." Forty-three percent disagree that society can simultaneously prohibit hate speech and protect free speech.
Two-thirds of Americans say colleges and universities aren't doing enough today to teach young Americans about the value of free speech.
The Cato Institute 2017 Free Speech and Tolerance Survey was conducted by the Cato Institute in collaboration with YouGov. YouGov collected responses August 15 to 23, 2017, from 2,547 Americans 18 years of age and older who were matched down to a sample of 2,300 to produce the final dataset.
https://www.cato.org/survey-reports/state-free-speech-tolerance-america
Democrats, African Americans, and Latinos are more likely than Republicans and white Americans to believe that hate speech is violent and allows majority views to crowd out minority viewpoints, that supporting a racist's free speech right is as bad as being a racist, that people who offend others with their ideas have bad intentions, and that we can simultaneously ban hate speech and protect free speech.
Americans provide a strong endorsement of free speech with 67% who agree that "Free speech ensures the truth will ultimately win out." About a third do not believe that truth can prevail with the free exchange of ideas.
A variety of campus protestors and social justice activists have argued that society can prohibit hate speech while still protecting Americans' First Amendment rights to free speech.
The survey finds that a majority of Americans agree with the idea that "Society can prohibit hate speech and still protect free speech." Forty-three percent disagree that society can simultaneously prohibit hate speech and protect free speech.
Two-thirds of Americans say colleges and universities aren't doing enough today to teach young Americans about the value of free speech.
The Cato Institute 2017 Free Speech and Tolerance Survey was conducted by the Cato Institute in collaboration with YouGov. YouGov collected responses August 15 to 23, 2017, from 2,547 Americans 18 years of age and older who were matched down to a sample of 2,300 to produce the final dataset.
https://www.cato.org/survey-reports/state-free-speech-tolerance-america
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