Ever since the start of the school year we have had weekly reports of free speech intolerance on college campuses. A couple of weeks ago The Washington Post ran an op-ed entitled “A chilling study shows how hostile college students are toward free speech.” And it’s just one example among many. Everywhere one looks there is another article touting the demise of free speech on college campuses.

Even CNN’s Jake Tapper felt the need to jump into the mix:

A chilling study shows how hostile college students are toward free speech – The Washington Post https://t.co/LrWEw8cweD — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) September 19, 2017

The media frenzy over free speech on college campuses is so pervasive that even Jordan Klepper’s new satire show, “The Opposition,” decided to cover the topic during their first week on air. Citing a recent Pew Research Center study indicating that 58 percent of Americans think that colleges have a negative effect on our nation, Klepper then showed clips of Attorney General Jeff Sessions saying “freedom of speech and thought on campus are under attack . . . it is transforming into an echo chamber of political correctness, homogeneous thought — a shelter for fragile egos.” Next up was a Fox News clip where a student remarked, “professors are more concerned with teaching this PC narrative than they are with teaching the facts.”

Klepper quipped back: “Yes for some reason the people who spend all their time around books and learning all believe the same facts.” To drive home the absurdity of the debates over college campuses as intolerant echo chambers, Klepper then interviewed Kobi Libii, and they both mocked the idea that “there is more to expertise than knowledge.” The bit closed by pointing out that real intellectual intolerance is the “refusal to back down in the face of new data.”