New national survey shows that millennials overwhelmingly support free speech

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The Blaze

A new survey has been released showing that a vast majority of millennials do not agree with the anti-free speech groups that have been popping up on university campuses.

The survey released by The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) shows that 92 percent of millennials across the nation support free speech. Additionally, 93 percent of millennials support religious freedom.

“The media keeps showing us images of violent protests on college campuses, young Americans being angry and disruptive, but the truth is that millennials support religious and social freedoms more than non-millennials,” said Roger Ream, of TFAS. “There’s a vast, silent majority of millennials who embrace these freedoms and those are the young men and women we are seeing in our programs.”

TFAS utilizes a “Support for Freedom Index,” measures how Americans define freedom, and whether or not they support more government intervention in their daily lives. Interestingly, millennials (ages 18-34) believe that “more government” is necessary to protect freedoms at 54 percent. However, the majority believe that government is necessary to safeguard freedoms (60 percent), not safety (40 percent).

A surprising finding by the study, however, shows that when it comes to who prefers freedoms over safety, it’s Republicans who tend to lean toward safety, diverging from their ideological cousins, the conservatives.

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