David Livingstone Smith quoted in 鈥榃all Street Journal鈥� article

David Livingstone Smith
David Livingstone Smith

David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., was quoted in an April 4, 2016 Wall Street Journal article titled 鈥淐halk and Awe: The new Free Speech Movement,鈥� which addresses the controversy that arose when students at Emory University in Atlanta demanded that school administrators decry support for presidential candidate Donald Trump after pro-Trump messages were found scrawled on campus sidewalks.

The author argues that acts of 鈥減olitical correctness鈥� that infringe on the right of free speech only serve to incite Trump supporters, many of whom admire the candidate for his refusal to use 鈥減olitically correct鈥� language.

He quotes from a piece that was published by Qz.com that quoted Smith鈥檚 statement that Trump is 鈥渢apping into passions that have been lying latent in certain portions of the American psyche.鈥�