After the April 2024 encampments, Jewish Ivy League students’ self‑censorship surged while conservatives’ fell sharply. This suggests campus enforcement and social‑sanction attention shifted targets rather than rising or falling uniformly. The 'heat budget' for illiberal pressure appears reallocated to groups at the center of the latest conflict.
— If speech policing is effectively redistributive, institutions and activists are steering who can speak rather than broadening or shrinking liberty overall, reshaping coalition incentives and governance responses.
Angel Eduardo
2025.09.10
55% relevant
FIRE/College Pulse data showing 34% of students accept violence to stop speech and majorities endorse shout‑downs/blocks reinforces the thesis that campus speech pressures aren't easing but being redistributed and intensified, shifting who can speak rather than expanding liberty overall.
Eric Kaufmann
2025.07.20
100% relevant
FIRE data: Jewish Ivy Leaguers who 'often' self‑censor rose 13%→35% (2023→2024) as conservative Ivy Leaguers fell 55%→31% in the same period after encampments.
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