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A year after Charlie Kirk’s death, almost 1 in 3 students say violence can be used to stop campus speakers
FIRE surveyed nearly 63,000 students at 262 schools and found 69% say shouting down a speaker is at least sometimes acceptable.
On Wednesday, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression released an annual survey finding that 30% of college students believe violence is acceptable to stop campus speech, down from last year's record-high of 34%.
FIRE surveyed nearly 63,000 students at more than 250 schools from Jan. 2 through June 3, capturing a decline in support for violence despite the share remaining well above 2020 levels when 18% held that view.
Three percent of respondents said violence is "always acceptable," 12 percent said "sometimes acceptable," and 16 percent deemed it "rarely acceptable" to stop a campus speech.
New York University ranked last in the College Free Speech Rankings, with the report citing the school's cancellation of an "Immigrant Invasion" panel and the "No Music for Genocide" boycott as contributing factors.