Constitution Day Lecture at Princeton Titled “F*** Free Speech”
“Put simply, speech is costly”
Has the left’s contempt for free speech ever been as blatantly displayed as it has in recent months?
Kat Timpf writes at National Review:
Princeton’s Constitution Day Lecture Titled ‘F%*# Free Speech’
This year’s annual Constitution Day lecture at Princeton University was titled “F%*# Free Speech: An Anthropologist’s Take on Campus Speech Debates” and maintained that “the academy has never promoted free speech as a central value.”
According to an article in Campus Reform, the lecture was given by the chairwoman of the Department of Anthropology and director of the Program in African Studies, Carolyn Rouse.
In the lecture, Rouse stated that we should “rethink academic freedom and academic values” and that “the way in which free speech is being celebrated in the media makes little to no sense anthropologically.”
“Put simply, speech is costly,” Rouse said. “So, contrary to the ACLU’s statement on their website regarding the role of free speech on college campuses, the academy has never promoted free speech as its central value.”
Rouse might want to rethink this. After all, in the wake of the election, Rouse has been seeking submissions for her “Trumplandia” project — “a virtual space for documenting the impact of Trump’s presidency on the world” — something she says was inspired by her belief that “the changes promised by the president-elect to ‘make America great again’ were authoritarian and racist.”
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why does this ‘genius’ have any free speech rights – using it’s own logic
“the academy has never promoted free speech as a central value.”
This is an incredible statement. Free speech is arguably the only real value of the academy. Everything else is administrative detail and record-keeping.
Sometimes one has to face the plain fact head-on—far too many Affirmative Action types have absolutely no clue about what they’re supposed to be doing.