Recent Assaults Against Freedom of Speech and the Press

[Bob Butler 54]

CNN reports on a claim by Fareed Zakaria that liberals are intolerant.

CNN Wrote:Fareed Zakaria said Saturday that though many liberals think they are tolerant, often they aren't.

Zakaria noted that "at the height of commencement season," many new graduates across the country had made their political views apparent, from the Notre Dame students who walked out as Vice President Mike Pence gave his commencement address to the crowd members who booed Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos during a speech at Bethune-Cookman University.

"American universities seem committed to every kind of diversity except intellectual diversity. Conservative voices and views are being silenced entirely," Zakaria said.

I'm not sure this is right.  Conservatives were given opportunity to speak.  The Notre Dame students didn't have to listen.  The Bethune-Cookman students spoke back.  There might be an error in liberals inviting in people who will say what the students don't want to hear.

Or is that a mistake?  A lot of the problem is nobody listening to the other guy.  Once a partisan latches on to a world view, he'll reject the opposite, often not listening just in case something new is offered.  Given what Pence or DeVos generally have to say, it's not surprising that well educated kids are apt to reject it.

Is it intolerance if one has a strong opinion and rejects the opposite opinion?  There is sure a lot of opinions and rejection, in America, and on this forum.