Free Speech Summary And Analysis

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In the article the author puts the idea that each organization needs to be more thoughtful and careful when planning controversial speakers or other events that may lead to campus conflicts. About the free speech, the author’s idea let me change my opinion. At the beginning, I think we should support free speech, whatever the person says. In my mind, everyone has the chance to show their own idea, if some people have different ideas they can talk to each other. After reading essay, when I saw the news that some students injured because of speech, I change my mind. One of the examples that left me with the deepest impression was the event that Mr. Murray’s appearance at Middlebury on March 3 was disrupted by hundreds of students and turned violent,

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