Civil Rights Commissioner: Young Adults’ Speech Should Be Restricted
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Civil Rights Commissioner: Young Adults’ Speech Should Be Restricted
‘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.”‘
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