Comedian and documentary filmmaker Adam Carolla testified Thursday in the House that colleges should stop trying to impose dramatic curbs on free speech and allow regular “order” to return to campus events.
“I feel what’s going on on these campuses is — we need law and order. We need to bring back law and order. But I think if we just had order, we wouldn’t need law. So can we just bring back order and could the faculty and administration on these campuses act like faculty and administration?” Carolla asked at a hearing before two House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittees on Thursday.
President Trump deemed himself the “law and order candidate” during the 2016 election for his strong support of law enforcement.
Carolla, an entertainer who made a name for himself among millennials in the 1990s and 2000s, indicated that some of the problem is that today’s college kids had pampered lives in high school, and colleges are allowing that to continue.
“We’re talking a lot about the kids and I think they’re just that, kids. … These are 18- and 19-year-old kids that are at these college campuses. They grew up dipped in Purell, playing soccer games where they never kept score, and watching ‘Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!’ and we’re asking them to be mature,” Carolla said.
He said colleges are over-protecting these kids, which won’t help them.
“Studies have shown that if you take people and you put them in a zero-gravity environment, like astronauts, they lose muscle mass. They lose bone density,” said Carolla. “We’re taking these kids — in the name of protection — we’re putting them in a zero-gravity environment and they’re losing muscle mass and bone density. They need to live in a world that has gravity. You need to expose your children to germs and dirt and the environment to build up their immune system.”
