Rob Henderson
speaker
881 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 6 Aug
Rob Henderson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 4 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 1.
Appearances
So they self-censor and stifle because they don't want to be ostracized or
insulted on social media or unpersoned in some way.
And when I speak with some academics who are unbothered by this, they say things like, well, self-censorship has always existed.
There have always been taboo things that we haven't been allowed to say and this kind of thing.
But my response to them is always, well, why is it increasing?
you know, if you go back to 2011, something like 50, 60% of students said that they would self-censor their views.
Some half of students, maybe a few more than half.
Whereas now, depending on this survey you look at, it's anywhere between 80 and 90% of students say they self-censor.
So why has it jumped so much?
You know, if this has always existed, what's changed between now versus 15 years ago?
And, you know, I think a lot of people are aware the political currents have changed and people are growing
uh fearful although there does seem to be maybe a little bit of you know what people call the the vibe change the vibe shift over the last maybe year or two um you know elon musk taking over x has been um a great thing i think for for free speech um and for some of the other platforms as well uh substack which i'm active on you can actually speak your mind and um actually compete in the marketplace of ideas and um you know share your actual thoughts and opinions
yeah well and this is something that that people you know we have a short memory uh it's astonishing to me because back during the peak of uh wokeness and cancel culture uh you know 2020 2021 people were digging up old social media posts from 10 15 years prior and saying
Oh, you posted this thing 10 years ago, and so we're going to cancel you now.
And now that we have this vibe change and people are being honest again, or at least more honest than they were, they seem unbothered by the possibility that five years from now, 10 years from now, if the pendulum swings, everything you're saying right now in this moment might be used against you once the vibe shifts once again.
And so you have maybe this temporary freedom.
yeah yeah you have this temporary freedom but a lot of it comes from young people so i mentioned earlier that you know yes students will um misrepresent their views to please their professors but you're also seeing professors misrepresent their views to please their students because they're terrified of being cancelled or hounded off campus or being pressured to resign um and so you're seeing it in in every direction and it's it's concerning what's happening with young people
that it's young people who are the most enthusiastic seemingly about a lot of this stuff.
There was a survey from Eric Hoffman, who's a political scientist who found that even when you control for political orientation, academics under 30 are far more censorious than academics who are older in their middle age and above.
And so even though they both might identify politically as being the same in terms of their willingness to de-platform or silence or even go to extreme measures like coercion or physical intimidation or violence, it's young people who are pushing this and who are promoting it.
Showing 541–560 of 881 · page 28 of 45
← Previous
Next →