Some students don’t see free speech as fundamental. Michaela Stith, a Duke University student, responds to a Wall Street Journal article by Michael Bloomberg and Charles Koch arguing for free speech on campus. Not so fast, she says.

In reality “free speech” doesn’t mean that all are free to speak and persuade. Institutional inequalities and informal barriers disable marginalized students from accessing “legitimate” or formalized means of communication, like those campus speakers have. This feeling of oppression is something the authors will never understand, and it is why we protest the speakers and require campus policies to protect minority students.
When Messrs. Bloomberg and Koch disparage safe spaces and speech codes to salvage “robust dialogue,” I hear, “Get over it, toughen up.”

Get over the First Amendment?