Should Speech Codes Be Banned

“College campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banded words and prohibited scientific inquiry.” (Ann Coulter). Safe-space is a term used to show that an educator, instructive establishment or under study does not endure free speech as a result of students being over-sensitive or feel offended. Shockingly as a consequence of safe-spaces, free speech has become endangered and intolerable. A speech code is a principle and regulation that bans speech afar from the strict laws of speech, their function is to stop badgering, criticism, defamation, and hate speech. These types of codes are most commonly used in Universities and private companies. Unfortunately, these speech codes have thwarted the urge to seek truth as well as influenced academic freedom, made students’ self-censor themselves, made the youth more fragile and oversensitive.

The most principal contention against speech codes lays on the thought that they disregard a key human right, the right to speak freely.

Such a central right, it is contended, should not to be restricted but to prevent genuine damage to others. Slander or yelling "Fire!" in a movie theater, for instance, can bring about genuine mischief and, hence, is really banned. Conversely, what grounds forbid as "hatred speech" is principally feeling that, while regularly hostile and disagreeable, does not bring about genuine damage. The basic right of free speech should not to be confined only to counteract hate speech. As Jesse Singal mentioned “This isn’t the behavior of people who are capable of weighing opposing ideas, or of changing their minds when they are confronted with evidence that suggests that they are wrong,” (Singal), this gave us an idea of how college students became less open to new ideas as they were restricted by speech

codes.
Jesse Singal further explains that college students with emotional distress have progressively increased in percentage thought the years “College students are getting increasingly fragile and prone to meltdowns.”(Singal) This was proven in many researches as Singal further mentioned “54 percent of college students surveyed said that they had ‘felt overwhelming anxiety’ in the past 12 months, up from 49 percent in the same survey just five years earlier”. Furthermore, social media has allowed people to share their feelings online anonymously, this has made some people even more vulnerable due to the cruelty of the online world by some specific people known as “trolls”.
Speech codes have also affected the education in the universities, making the education less malleable. Censorship is one case of how speech codes undercut the advantages of higher education. On the off chance that these codes shield understudies from disagreeing conclusions, in what world will they figure out how to react to such feelings after they graduate? Ruth Marcus further explains “When professors have to worry about showing famous paintings with topless women (degrading), and when they are instructed that ‘America is the land of opportunity’ constitutes a micro aggression, something is seriously amiss.”(Marcus). This shows us that college students will not be ready for the tough life after graduation, often referred to as “the real life”, where no one will care about how they feel, thus shocking them. That is one of the main reasons why speech codes should not be considered on college campuses.
Speech codes has made students self-censor themselves, as Lukianoff and Haidt meantioned “negative filtering, which they define as ‘focus[ing] almost exclusively on the negatives and seldom notic[ing] the positives.’ When applied to campus life, mental filtering allows for simpleminded demonization.” (Lukianoff, Haidt). This explains that self-censoring and focusing on the negative parts of speech creates a close minded society that is unable to argue.
trigger warnings can be used to a certain extent, but overuse of trigger warnings leading to censorship is harmful to the education in college campuses, thus trigger warnings should be allowed to be used in certain cases where it is necessary.