Hidden Camera: Yale College Students Sign Petition To Repeal The First Amendment - Kids Against Free Speech
- 5 years ago
Ami on the Street: Political Satirist Ami Horowitz tests the waters at Yale University to see if today's Ivy league students would actually sign a petition to repeal the First Amendment. In shocking hidden camera video, multiple Yale University students signed a petition to scrap the First Amendment. In under 60 minutes filming on the Yale campus, Ami collected over 50 signatures from Yalies who wanted to repeal a significant part of the Constitution.
Horowitz went around asking students to sign a petition to “blow up” the First Amendment. One student said, “I think this is fantastic, I absolutely agree” with the idea of getting rid of the First Amendment.
Others said, “excellent” or “I love it” when presented with a petition to scrap the First Amendment.
A female student agreed with Horowitz when he suggested, “I think the Constitution should be one big safe space.”
Ironically, the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, and freedom of petition. A right the students and Horowitz took full advantage of that day.
One student continued to sign the petition while being told, “Micro-aggressions should not be protected, and making fun of people is not cool and you know, it sucks.”
A Yale University spokesman was not amused and questioned the veracity of the video: “There are a number of heavily edited prank videos like this one circulating lately in which someone surreptitiously records people while pretending to support a position that they actually oppose, and trying to get the individuals they speak with to agree with them,” Tom Conroy wrote in an email. “I have to acknowledge that I don’t take them seriously as an accurate representation of what every person interviewed or shown in the videos believes.” I wasn’t there when the video was filmed and can’t resolve any dispute over the video’s claims, but disrespect for the First Amendment is common on campus. A recent YAF survey showed that a stunning 53 percent of students believed that “choosing to use or not use certain words can constitute an act of violence,” and many student radicals openly long for European models of hate speech prosecution. So it’s not hard to believe that dozens of students from one of America’s elite universities would petition the government to end, among other things, the right to petition the government.
Horowitz went around asking students to sign a petition to “blow up” the First Amendment. One student said, “I think this is fantastic, I absolutely agree” with the idea of getting rid of the First Amendment.
Others said, “excellent” or “I love it” when presented with a petition to scrap the First Amendment.
A female student agreed with Horowitz when he suggested, “I think the Constitution should be one big safe space.”
Ironically, the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, and freedom of petition. A right the students and Horowitz took full advantage of that day.
One student continued to sign the petition while being told, “Micro-aggressions should not be protected, and making fun of people is not cool and you know, it sucks.”
A Yale University spokesman was not amused and questioned the veracity of the video: “There are a number of heavily edited prank videos like this one circulating lately in which someone surreptitiously records people while pretending to support a position that they actually oppose, and trying to get the individuals they speak with to agree with them,” Tom Conroy wrote in an email. “I have to acknowledge that I don’t take them seriously as an accurate representation of what every person interviewed or shown in the videos believes.” I wasn’t there when the video was filmed and can’t resolve any dispute over the video’s claims, but disrespect for the First Amendment is common on campus. A recent YAF survey showed that a stunning 53 percent of students believed that “choosing to use or not use certain words can constitute an act of violence,” and many student radicals openly long for European models of hate speech prosecution. So it’s not hard to believe that dozens of students from one of America’s elite universities would petition the government to end, among other things, the right to petition the government.