One of the popular issues around these days is whether we must let hate speech or not on campuses. It is a very sensitive subject and requires insightful approach. In my opinion we should not outlaw, censor, and/or punish any form of expression including hate speech on campuses since doing so, as Lawrence points out in his article, is contrary to the democratic sprit of tolerance, additionally adjacent to the fundamental principle of a university: "open expression" which is also an essential piece of democracy and causes disputes among people for the reason that there are no formulas to apply in distinguishing hate speech from speech which we consider as okay.
             Since democracy is the form of management which combines different ideas with the aim of getting the best result for humanity, we must show tolerance to those different ideas. Likewise "The democratic system cannot be operated without effective opposition." says Bagdikian . Censoring hate speech means that we are not showing enough tolerance to those divergent ideas and if we do that we will not be able to apply democracy with full efficiency.
             "Open expression is the fundamental principle of a university." says Hackney . Censoring hate speech is contrary to that fundamental principle of a university as it prevents knowledge from developing. Universities are the main sources of knowledge and we acquire knowledge by thinking and discussing our thoughts. But censorship prevents us from discussing all of our thoughts, provided that it only lets selected thoughts to be discussed which prevent our ideas to evolve and become knowledge. Also universities are the elementary pieces of democracy because if we do not get different thoughts from universities it will be harder for us to apply democracy. It is the reason why censoring is especially dangerous at universities.
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