An insidious movement on college campuses employs the term “microaggression” to equate objectionable speech with physical force that violates another’s rights.

In this excerpt from a panel discussion at Objectivist Summer Conference 2015, Yaron Brook and Harry Binswanger indicate why the idea of “microaggression” constitutes a threat to free speech that should be vigorously opposed.

Other resources:

• Defending Free Speech: “Safe Spaces” vs. Free Speech

• Intellectual Ammunition — Campus Speech Controversies

• The Yaron Brook Show: What’s Behind the Campus Protests

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