Berkeley Law Prof Stands up for Free Expression of Ideas on Campus
“All ideas and views can be expressed on a college campus. Period”
Kudos to this professor. Shouldn’t this be the position of all professors and not the exception?
The College Fix reported:
Berkeley law prof: ‘All ideas and views can be expressed on a college campus. Period’
A law professor from the University of California – Berkeley’s law school recently urged students to “protect all speech,” including speech they find offensive and hateful.
“All ideas and views can be expressed on a college campus. Period,” Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the university’s law school, told students at Cornell University, according to The Cornell Daily Sun. “It’s very important to make the distinction between discussing what the current law is as opposed to discussing what we think the law should be.”
While allowing that there are exceptions to free speech—including ” inciteful language, fighting words and words that present a true threat”—Chermerinsky nevertheless told students that “hateful speech is protected by the First Amendment,” and that universities—public and private alike—“should allow the same level of free speech as their public counterparts.”
The dean suggested that students should “shift away from the common rhetoric of the term ‘hate speech’.”
“It’s important to separate the colloquial use of the term from the legal test that’s going to decide it,” he added.
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He’ll be looking for a new position beginning next quarter …
He is absolutely correct, and he should be supported by other faculty and the administration against the inevitable screams of “racist” that will come from the SJW mob. Unfortunately, the faculty and administration of Berkeley have shown themselves to be cowards, afraid of standing up to the mob. They are more likely to try to force this professor out for “hate speech.” Remember that “hate speech” is any thought or speech that the people in power (meaning the mob at Berkeley) hate.
I don’t think faculty and administration are “afraid of standing up to the (SJW) mob” … I think they agree with them. That’s why they do nothing.