Charlie Kirk discusses how colleges have become dominated by left-wing ideology, arguing that diversity officers and speech codes are used to indoctrinate students. He claims professional agitators sometimes drive campus protests, while more young people are turning toward free-market and limited-government activism.
You wouldn't believe how many young people are looking for an alternative point of view. See, the left has made a big mistake, and that is they have become the academic establishment of which they used to be fighting against. See, the left's rise to power in the '60s and '70s is all about raging against the machine, and now they've actually become that machine. And so young people in college today are being indoctrinated, and they're being steered toward a point of view that quite frankly runs contrary to the spirit of being young. Conformity, one-size-fits-all, top-down power. And if you look at what it really means to be a college or high school student in America, there's kind of a spirit of rebellion inherent in being young. And we're starting to channel that around the ideas of free markets, limited government, and there's a growing undercurrent amongst our nation's youth to be involved in an activist-type organization so that we can actually start to move the ball forward on college universities and also across the country.
So the average student, in your opinion, looks at these students who are now making all these demands— hire more administrators to ensure greater diversity and all the other keywords of political correctness— does the average student think, yeah, that's a wonderful thing?
Not so much. And I'll say this, a lot of the protests you see at Missouri and Yale are actually being stirred up by professional protesters and agitators being brought on to these campuses to stir up this controversy. The average student, quite frankly, couldn't care less about how many diversity officers there are, these free speech codes. This is just a narrative that is being painted by a certain very loud contingent of, I would say, more entitled students on campus that are in such prime positions in their life they have nothing better to worry about than What's going to be said next that will offend me? So there's a group of college students that are waiting to be offended next, and they're using these free speech codes and zones as a way to suppress alternative points of view.
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