This is why the left wants 16 yer olds to vote they are ignorant and malleable

Academia Has Become East Germany II

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/09/29/academia-has-become-east-germany-ii-n3819435

DAVID STROM 4:40 PM | September 29, 2026

 Those of us who went to college before the "Great Awokening" will probably have a hard time grasping how much the current campus environment resembles East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. 

It simply doesn't compute, so to speak. Or not speak, as is the case. 

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  A new 2026 survey of college students finds that more than 80% of liberal students believe a professor should be "reported to the university" for saying something that "students find offensive." What kinds of things are offensive? Among those saying a professor should be
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The problem goes much deeper than the speech codes we used to worry about; it has reached the point where it's not just the Stasi-like university bureaucrats who are enforcing speech restrictions; students have become informers, enforcers, and apparently watch each other like hawks to detect wrongthink.

 More than 80 percent of liberal students believe a professor should be "reported to the university" for saying something students find offensive. And among those who'd report, here's what counts as reportable:

• 37 percent say a professor should be reported for saying there's no evidence of antiblack bias in police shootings
• 35 percent for saying DEI practices do more harm than good and should be eliminated
• 23 percent for saying biological sex is a scientific fact — two sexes, male and female

For comparison, 55 percent of conservative-leaning students also say they would report offenses, and 72 percent of independents. It's not exclusively a Left thing, although the left is much more on the lookout, apparently. The campus climate is all about surveillance of speech.And it's not just surveillance. FIRE recently released a report indicating that a large percentage of students think actual violence is appropriate to suppress wrongthink, which is just a confirmation of what we have seen with all the actual celebrations of Charlie Kirk's murder and the lists published of others who deserve to get "Kirked." 

Speech vigilantes, you can call them. 

They murdered Charlie Kirk and 30% of students still think violence is a valid way to silence a speaker.

FIRE surveyed 63,000 kids across 262 schools and the national average only crawled to a D-, the best mark in 7 years and still a fail by their own scale. 

Chicago took first again. 

NYU finished last. 

At 61 campuses, more than 50% now say his name is too dangerous to discuss at all.

9 schools lost ranking points for punishing faculty over comments on the killing, including FAU, which left an untenured professor hanging for months after she called celebrating it “self defense” while two tenured colleagues were reinstated. 

The report called the climate “dismal.”