Jailed for Speech Week in Higher Education

Jailed for Speech Week in Higher Education

So we have now come to the point where people can be jailed for saying bad words.

• Word Crime: Two UConn Students Arrested For Saying Racial Slurs

While so many other things go unpunished.

• Conservative Asian-American Student at U. Michigan Called ‘White Supremacist’ in Fliers on Campus
• Student Protesters at Duke U. Disrupt Former Israeli Foreign Minister’s Speech
• Racist Posters on UW-Madison Campus Revealed to be Part of a ‘Protest’

Compare and contrast.

• Student Govt. at Texas State Says ‘Coming Out as Conservative’ Event is Homophobic
• Gay Men Left Out of University’s LGBT Month Programming

Gibson’s vs. Oberlin update.

• Gibson’s Bakery files cross-appeal to restore full $44 million verdict against Oberlin College

I’m sensing a pattern.

• Harvard Crimson Faces Campus Backlash for Asking ICE to Comment on a Story
• President of Michigan State Apologizes for Border Patrol Classroom Presentation

Climate change is all the rage.

• Polar Bear Studies Professor is the Latest Victim of “Cancel Culture”
• Student Govt. at UMass Amherst Declares Climate Emergency, Wants School to do Same

What about blind people?

• University in UK Adopting Use of ‘Jazz Hands’ Because Traditional Clapping is Triggering

And she’s right.

• Betsy DeVos Criticizes Democrats’ Plan to Eliminate Student Debt as ‘Crazy’

Really?

• U. Oklahoma Makes Campus Awards Gender-Neutral After Complaint From One Student

Well OK then.

• Rutgers University Students Place Dead Lobster in Tree and Make ‘Pilgrimages’ to it

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