Difference of Opinion

I'm being constantly shocked by what I read about university and college students who refuse to listen politely to any opinion that doesn't correspond with their own.  Even people who have been invited to speak to those students are heckled and interrupted if their opinions vary from what a lot of the students hold.  First, it's rude to heckle the speaker and, second, how can you expand your education if you don't listen to others?  Why can't these students tolerate hearing anything other than their very narrow views?  If you don't want to listen then you should leave the area because probably most of the students do want to listen and the hecklers are stealing their right to do so.

My grandchildren are too polite to be rude to me but I've noticed, especially on Facebook, that young people who are strangers to me can be very rude if I don't agree with them on a subject.  I don't get it.  Do these young people never allow themselves to hear opposing views?  I believe that only people who are very insecure about themselves and their opinions can't bear to hear anything different.  You don't have to agree but rudeness gets you nowhere.

The college professors who allow students to disrupt the invited speaker are not doing their job in educating them.  If the parents have not taught those young adults that rudeness is unacceptable then the professors should step in and stop it.  You should never insult an invited guest and that's what those poor speakers were.  

We know it's common for young people to be arrogant and think that they alone are right but that's not the lesson society will teach them when they leave school.  If they refuse to open their minds and ears to others, they will live their lives in a tiny vacuum of like minded clones.  How boring!

The bleeding heart liberal society that is imposing it's will on us today is changing our world from free thinkers to brainwashed followers and that is detrimental to our freedom of speech and social progress.

I'd rather hear out a far right or far left speaker than shut him/her up.  If the message is horrible, it won't stand the test of time but you can still learn something from it.  You will definitely learn that not everyone agrees with you and your opinions.