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# What College Students Really Think About Cancel Culture
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/what-college-students-really-think-about-cancel-culture/
- Published: 2022-02-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

[What College Students Really Think About Cancel Culture](https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/02/college-campus-free-speech-cancel-culture/621484/?ref=birchtree.me)

> Though self-censorship is a problem in academia—more than 80 percent of college kids say that they self-censor at least some of the time, according to one study—not all students agree with the adults who are catastrophizing.

I don’t really understand this metric, who doesn’t “self-censor at least some of the time”? That’s literally what we call “being polite”.