Civil Rights Commissioner: Young Adults’ Speech Should Be Restricted
Source: amren.com
The brain of a 21-year-old is still developing, so there should be restrictions on what such young minds should hear and say, a Democrat on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said at a recent briefing on sexual harassment, a professor and expert who testified at the meeting says.
Eugene Volokh, a professor for the UCLA School of Law, wrote in The Washington Post this week, that comments made by Commissioner Michael Yaki sounded as if he was “coming out in support of speech codes that ban speech and symbolic expression that is perceived as conveying a racist or sexist message.”Yaki is a former senior adviser to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Volokh said he was passing Yaki’s comments along as he is “a political figure who holds a significant position in the federal civil rights establishment.”
The hearing was held to discuss handling of sexual assault claims and speech codes on campus, said Volokh, but “some of the discussion of the latter going beyond just sex and covering material that’s offensive based on race and other characteristics.”
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There are “certain factors” in how the younger brain, even in adults 21 and younger, process information, Yaki said, which is “vastly different from the way that we adults do.”
So, since the younger brain works differently and university campuses are relatively small environments, Yaki said, “I think that there are very good and compelling reasons why broader policies and prohibitions on conduct in activities and in some instances speech are acceptable on a college campus level that might not be acceptable say in an adult work environment or in an adult situation.”
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