Campus Reform Media Director - Williams College Caved to Outrage Mob

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - Yesterday, Cabot Phillips, the media director for Campus Reform, told Sinclair Broadcast Group he finds the Sawicki Report "disappointing" suggesting it is yet another example of an academic institution “capitulating to the outrage mob.”

“When you bow down to a group of people who are saying these ideas are offensive to us," said Phillips, "we don’t like them, keep them off campus, all you are doing is incentivizing more of that behavior in the future,” said Phillips. "If you teach students that they can be outraged and demand that certain ideas they don’t like be kept from them, they are going to go into the real world thinking that that applies outside of college."

"People think that free speech means 'I’m just here to say as many offensive things as possible and spew hate speech at you.' And free speech really has this negative stigma on college campuses. I think when universities adopt policies like the Chicago one, they are essentially saying ‘free speech is not a dirty word here, it’s something that we embrace',” said Phillips. “A college environment that is devoid of debate robs students of the opportunity to learn. Any university that’s taking steps to encourage discussion, to encourage dissenting opinions is essentially doing their job.”