I think it’s very different when you’re on the outside looking in.

Just thinking about the ongoings at my school this past year there are really only a couple incidents that factor into free speech discussions. One involves basically some petty squabbling over Israel/Palestine (something I definitely do not want to get into) and there was some dubious actions happening on both sides. Some students were asked to leave a place and stuff but I’d argue that ultimately it was a minor free speech violation. The other thing that happened was there was some neo-Nazi propaganda placed around campus that was removed but that’s hate speech so A okay.

The biggest piece of free speech violation actually involved a prospective professor about a year ago who ended up not teaching (? I think) because of some tweets that some thought were racist but definitely were not. Of course, the irony here is that the most vocal people wanting this person to not work at my school were actually people online who did not even go to my school and were not even college aged.

The idea that universities are commie playgrounds and PC-loving, free speech squashing tyrants is basically a myth. In my experience the PC attitudes come from students and the university administrations aren’t even really listening.

As for class oppression, some things are taught because they are true.