By the 2010s, young liberals began to demand the opposite: that speech be regulated. In the 1980s, only 1 out of 4 Gen X entering college students thought extreme speakers should be banned, but by 2019 the majority of Gen Z incoming college students thought so (see Figure 6.21). In addition, 3 out of 4 students in 2019 thought that colleges should restrict speech deemed racist or sexist. As we saw in the Gen X chapter, this has created a widening generation gap around attitudes toward free speech.
