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