Jailed for Speech Week in Higher Education

MIKE LACHANCE OCT 26, 2019 8:00 AM

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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